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8. MORINDA, L. 



Flowers numerous, their ovaries united into a head. Calyx obscurely toothed. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped, 5-lobed, valvate in the bud. Stamens 5, short. Style 

 slender. Stigmas 2, filiform. Fruit composed of 2-4 one-seeded carpels, all 

 united into a fleshy head. Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or whorled. 

 Stipules within the leaves. Flowers terminal, or opposite the leaves. 



1 . M. Roioc, L. Stem smooth, procumbent or climbing ; leaves smooth, 

 lanceolate and acuminate, or obovate oblong and abruptly acute, short-petioled ; 

 stipules broad and short ; flowers small, crimson. South Florida. March and 

 April. 



9. CHIOCOCCA, Browne. 



Calyx ovate, 5-toothed. Corolla funnel-shaped, 5-lobed, valvate in the bud. 

 Stamens 5, inserted on the base of the corolla ; anthers linear, included. Style 

 slender. Stigma obtuse. Fruit fleshy, roundish, compressed, composed of two 

 oblong 1-secded nutlets. Seeds suspended. Shrubs. Leaves smooth, petioled. 

 Stipules connate. Flowers in axillary racemes, white or yellow. 



1. C. racemosa, Jacq. Erec't; leaves oblong (2' -3' long), acute at both 

 ends ; racemes mostly longer than the leaves, often compound, many-flowered ; 

 corolla many times longer than the calyx-teeth, white, turning yellow. Varies 

 with the stems prostrate and vine-like, leaves smaller (i'-f long), more rigid, 

 and longer than the few-flowered simple racemes. South Florida. Fruit 

 white. 



10. PSYCHOTRIA, L. 



Calyx ovate, 5-toothed, or nearly entire. Corolla short, funnel-shaped, 4-5- 

 lobed, valvate in the bud. Stamens 4-5. Stigma 2-cleft. Fruit drupaceous, 

 composed of two 1 -seeded carpels, mostly ribbed or angled when dry. Seeds 

 erect. Albumen horny. Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, narrowed to a 

 petiole. Stipules sometimes membranaceous and deciduous. Flowers mostlv 

 in terminal corymbs or panicles. 



1 P. lanceolata, Nutt. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate at each end, the 

 lower surface as well as the branches ferruginous-pubescent ; stipules clasping, 

 ovate, acute or acuminate, deciduous ; corymbs terminal, trichotomous at the 

 base. South Florida. Leaves 2' - 3' long. Fruit ovate, red. 



2. P. undata, Jacq. Leaves oblong, acuminate at each end, undulate, 

 rugose, and, like the branches, smooth ; stipules round, membranaceous, decidu- 

 ous ; cyme sessile, twice trichotomous, shorter than the leaves ; corolla naked at 

 the throat, hairy at the insertion of the filaments ; fruit (dry) ovoid, 10-ribbed. 

 South Florida. Leaves about 3' long. Flowers small. 



11. STRTJMPFIA, Jacq. 



Calyx-limb 5-parted ; the lobes acute, erect. Corolla somewhat bell-shaped, 

 deeply 5-parted, the tube very short, the lobes erect, lanceolate, spreading at the 

 apex. Stamens 5, inserted on the base of the corolla ; filaments very short ; 



