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4-5, often wanting. Stamens 4-lo, inserted with the petals on the 

 calyx. .Style slender : stigma simple. Fruit drupaceous or baccate, 

 or dry and iiidehiscent, often winged. Seed solitary, suspended, 

 anatropous, without albumen. Cotyledons convolute or variously 

 folded. 



1. LAGUNCULARIA, Grcrt. 



Flowers in a spike. Calyx tube obconieal, the limb 5-partecl, obtuse, per- 

 cist rut. Petals 5, minute. Stamens 10. Style subulate ; stigma, capitate. 

 Ovary 1-celled, 2-ovuled. Drupe coriaceous, cuneate-obovate, compressed, 

 angled, 1-seeded. Seeds germinatiug in the drupe. Cotyledons convolute. 

 Radicle elongated. Maritime shrubs, with opposite elliptical smooth and 

 fleshy leaves, on biglandular petioles, and small flowers, in simple or com- 

 pound axillary and terminal spikes. 



1. Li. racemosa, <i;iTt. Spikcv. erect, rigid, hoary-tomentose, the lateral 

 ones solitary, the terminal in threes, simple or branched ; flowers scattered ; 

 calvx tube obcouieal, furrowed, wing-angled in fruit. South Florida. June 

 - August. A shrub or .small tree, with the habit of the Mangrove. 



2. L. glabriflora, 1'resl. Spikes spreading, slender, smooth, the lateral 

 ones in pairs, the terminal in threes or fours; flowers minute, crowded, de- 

 ciduous; calyx-tube cup-shaped, terete, even, with two opposite bractlcts 

 appressed to the sides. Banks of the Manatee River, South Florida (Rugel). 

 June. Perhaps a sterile form of the preceding. 



2. CONOCARPUS, Gaert. 



Flowers densely crowded in a globular head. Calyx tube about as long as 

 the compressed 2-ovuled ovary ; the limb 5-cleft. deciduous. Petals none. 

 Stamens 5-10, exserted. Anthers cordate. Fruit coriaceous, scale-like, 

 closely imbricated and iudehisceut. Cotyledons convolute. Trees or shrubs, 

 with alternate entire and somewhat fleshy leaves. Heads of flowers spiked 

 or panicled. 



1. C. Grecta, Jacij. Branchlets angular, smooth ; leaves smooth, oblong 

 or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, narrowed into a biglandular petiole ; heads 

 of flowers sessile, or on short spreading pedicels; cone of fruit ovoid. Var. 

 SEIMCEA, DC. Branches, leaves, and panicles silky and hoary; lowest leaves 

 mostly obovate and obtuse or emarginate ; ovary abortive. Sandy sea- 

 shore, Tampa Bay, FlorLla, and southward. Jan. - Feb. A shrub or 

 small tree. Leaves 2' -4' long. Heads of fruit 3" -6" long. Flowers 

 greenish, minute. 



3. TERMINALIA, L. 



Flowers in spikes, often polygamous. Limb of the calyx deciduous, bell- 

 shaped, 5-cleft, with the lobes acute. Petals none. Stamens 10, in 2 rows, 

 longer than the cfilyx. Ovary 2 - 3-ovuled. Style filiform. Drupe dry and 

 indehiscent, l-seeded. Seed almond-like. Cotyledons spirally convolute. 

 Trees or shrubs, with mostly alternate leaves, which are crowded at the sum- 

 mit of the branches. 



