80 MYETACEAE. 



petals about twice as long as the sepals: fruits subglobose or globose-obovoid, 

 5-6 mm. broad, scarlet. [E. Garberi Sarg.] — Fall. 



The Iroxwood grows in hammocks on the Everglade Keys and the Florida Keys. 

 The red-brown heart-wood is close-grained, very heavy, and hard. (W. I.) 



2. ANAMOMIS Griseb. Shrubs or trees. Leaf -blades not ribbed. Cymes 

 sessile or long-peduncled, sometimes 1-flowered. Berry crowned with the per- 

 sistent calyx. Seeds 1 or 2 or many. 



Cymes markedly peduncled and several-flowered : seapls suborbicnlar or renifofm : 



petals 3-4 mm. long: seeds 1 or 2, large. 1. A. dicrana. 



Cymes usually sessile and 1-flowered : sepals oblong to ovate : 

 petals 6-8 mm. long : seeds numerous, small. 

 Petals 4-5 mm. long : calyx less than 1 cm. wide. 2. A. longipcs. 



Petals 6-7 mm. long : calyx over 1 cm. wide. 3. A. hahamensis. 



1. A, dicrana (Berg.) Britton. Small tree becoming 8 m. tall or shrub: leaf- 

 blades oblong to cuneate or obovate-euneate, 2-4 cm. long: terminal flowers of 

 each cyme sessile: corolla 8-9 mm. wide; petals white, fully twice as long as 

 the sepals: fruits 6-7 mm. in diameter: seeds dull. 



The Naked-stopper grows in hammocks in the coastal region of the lower 

 half of peninsular Florida, somewhat further north on the eastern coast, and on 

 the Everglade Keys and the Florida Keys. The light-brown or red heart-wood is 

 close-grained, heavy, and hard. (TF. 7.) 



2. A. longipes (Berg) Britton. Small tree or shrub with prostrate-diffuse or 

 sometimes erect stems: leaf -blades mainly ovate or oval, 1-3.5 cm. long, finely 

 reticulate: terminal flower of each cyme long-stalked: corolla 12-14 mm. 

 wide; petals white or pink, much longer than the sepals: fruits 6-9 mm. in 

 diameter. [E^^genia longipes Berg.] 



The Long-stalked stopper grows in pinelands and about hammocks on the 

 Everglade Keys and Florida Keys. The wood has not been studied. (TF. I.) 



3. A. bahamensis (Kiaersk) Britton. Shrub with diffuse branches, or a small 

 tree: leaf-blades orbicular, oval, or elliptic, or somewhat ovate, mostly 2-4 cm. 

 long, very thick, shining above, obscurely reticulate beneath: peduncles and 

 pedicels strongly flattened: corolla about 1.5 cm. wide; petals white or nearly 

 so: fruits about 1 cm. in diameter. 



The Bahaman-stopper grows in pineland on Big Pine Key. The wood has 

 not yet been studied. (IF. I.) 



3. PSIDIUM L. Shrubs or trees. Leaf-blades prominently many-ribbed. 

 Flowers solitary or few together. Fruit crowned with the persistent calyx. 

 Seeds very numerous. 



1. P. Guajava Eaddi. Tree sometimes 8 m. tall, with roughish bark, or a 

 shrub: leaf-blades oblong or nearly so, 4-8 cm. long, pubescent beneath: sepals 

 9-15 mm. long: petals 15-20 mm. long: berries globular or pyriform, 3-6 cm. 

 in diameter. — All year. 



The Guava, a native of tropical America, grows in hammocks, pinelands, 

 thickets and fields in many parts of peninsular Florida and on the Keys. The 

 brown or reddish heart-wood is close-grained, heavy, hard, and strong. (TF. I.) 



4. CALYPTEANTHES Sw. Shrubs or trees. Leaf-blades not ribbed. 



Flowers in terminal panicles. Calyx cap-like, deciduous. Berry crowned with 



the top of the hypanthium. Seeds 1 or 2. 



Calyx-lid not mammillate. hypanthium pubescent : leaf-blades manifestly petioled. 



1. C. palJens. 

 Calyx-lid mammillate : hypanthium glabrous : leaf-blades sessile or 



nearly so. 2. C. Zuzygium. 



1. C. pallens (Poir.) Griseb. Tree becoming 9 m. tall, the bark light gray 

 or nearly white, smooth or ultimately scaly, the branchlets 2-edged, or a shrub: 

 leaf-blades elliptic or oval, varying to broader above or below the middle, 3-5 



