POLYGONACEZ. 
SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 115 
COCCOLOBIS UVIFERA. 
Sea Grape. 
FascicLes of flowers in terminal and axillary racemes. 
rounded, cordate at the base, thick, and coriaceous. 
Coccolobis Uvifera, Jacquin, Enum. Pl. Carib. 19 (1760) ; 
Hist. Stirp. Am. 112, t. 73; Hist. Select. Stirp. Am. 56, 
t. 110. — Miller, Dict. ed. 8, No. 1.— Linnzus, Spec. ed. 
2, 523. — Icon. Am. Gewiich. ii. 29, t. 127. — Gertner, 
Fruct. i. 214, t. 45. — Lamarck, J0J. ii. 445, t. 316, £. 2. — 
West, Beskriv. St. Croix, 281. — Willdenow, Spec. ii. pt. 
i. 457. — Poiret, Lam. Dict. vi. 61. — Persoon, Syn. i. 
442. — Titford, Hort. Bot. Am. 61. — Sprengel, Syst. ii. 
252. — Bot. Mag. lix. t. 3130. — Humboldt, Bonpland & 
Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Spec. ii. 175. — Kunth, Syn. Pl. 
Afquin. i. 465. — Spach, Hist. Vég. x. 542. — Nuttall, 
Sylva, iii. 23, t. 88. — A. Richard, Fl. Cub. iii. 183. — 
Meyer, Prim. Fl. Esseq. i. 159. — Maycock, Fl. Barb. 
Leaves broadly ovate, 
fra nat. For. Kjébenh. 1876, 142 (Fl. St. Croix); Bull. 
U. S. Nat. Mus, No. 13, 88 (Fl. St. Croix and the Vir- 
gin Islands). — Hemsley, Bot. Biol. Am. Cent. iii. 37. — 
Sargent, Forest Trees N. Am. 10th Census U. S. ix. 
118. — Lindau, Bot. Jahrb. xiii. 204. — Baillon, Hist. Pl. 
xi. f. 444, 
Polygonum Uvifera, Linnzus, Spec. 365 (1753). 
Coccolobis Leoganensis, Jacquin, Hnum. Pl. Carib. 19 
(1760) ; Hist. Stirp. Am. 113, t. 178, £. 33; Hist. Select. 
Stirp. Am. 56, t. 260, f. 30. — Poiret, Lam. Dict. vi. 
61. — Eggers, Vidensk. Medd. fra nat. For. Kjiébenh. 
1876, 142 (Fl. St. Croix); Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 
13, 88 (#1. St. Croix and the Virgin Islands). 
Coccolobis Uvifera, var. Leoganensis, Willdenow, Spec. 
ii. pt. i. 457 (1799). — Meisner, De Candolle Prodr. xiv. 
152. — Sargent, Forest Trees N. Am. 10th Census U. S. 
ix. 118. 
Coccolobis Uvifera, var. ovalifolia, Meisner, De Can- 
dolle Prodr. xiv. 152 (1857). — Sargent, Forest Trees N. 
Am. 10th Census U. S. ix. 118. 
Uvifera Leoganensis, Otto Kunze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 561 
(1891). 
155.—Chamisso & Schlechtendal, Linnea, vi. 368. — 
Schlechtendal, Linnea, vi. 760; xxvi. 643. — Miquel, 
Linnea, xviii. 242. — Meisner, Mon. Gen. Polyg. Prodr. 
8, 33, t.1, £4; t. 2, B; t.5, £1; De Candolle, Prodr. 
xiv. 152; Linnea, xxi. 263; Martius Fl. Brasil. v. pt. 
i. 42. —Schomburgk, 27. and Faun. Brit. Guian. 820, 
934.— Seemann, Bot. Voy. Herald, 192. — Dietrich, Syn. 
ii. 13826. — Grisebach, FV. Brit. W. Ind. 161; Cat. Pl. 
Cub. 61. — Chapman, F7. 391. — Eggers, Vidensk. Medd. 
A tree, in Florida rarely exceeding fifteen feet in height, with a short gnarled and contorted trunk 
three or four feet in diameter, and stout branches which form a round compact head; often reduced to 
a shrub with prostrate stems, and in the West Indies sometimes rising to the height of fifty feet. The 
bark of the trunk, which is barely a sixteenth of an inch thick, is smooth, ight brown, and marked 
with large irregular pale blotches. The branches, which are stout and terete, with a thick pith, are light 
orange-color, puberulous, marked with oblong pale lenticels, and gradually grow darker during their 
second and third years. The leaves are broadly ovate or suborbicular, rounded, and sometimes short- 
pointed at the apex, deeply cordate at the base, and entire, with undulate margins; they are very thick 
and coriaceous, minutely reticulate-venulose, dark green and lustrous on the upper surface, paler and 
puberulous on the lower surface, four or five inches long and five or six inches wide, with stout often 
bright red midribs rounded and grooved on the upper side and frequently covered with pale hairs 
below, and about five pairs of conspicuous spreading primary veins red on the upper side, arcuate near 
the margins and connected by cross veins ; they are borne on short stout puberulous flattened petioles 
abruptly enlarged at the base, and leave in falling large pale elevated orbicular or semiorbicular scars ; 
the stipular sheath 1s a third of an inch broad, truncate, entire, membranaceous, light brown, slightly 
puberulous and persistent during two or three years. The leaves sometimes gradually turn red or 
scarlet, and usually fall during their second and third years. The flowers, which appear almost continu- 
ously through the year, are borne on slender puberulous pedicels an eighth of an inch long, in one to 
six-flowered subsessile fascicles from the axils of minute triangular apiculate dark brown puberulous 
