OLACACEAE. 97 



pale-purple to yellowish-white; lobes toothed: capsules oblong or oval, 5-11.5 

 cm. longw — All year. 



The Black-calabash grows In low hammocks, often in shore-hammocks on the 

 Everglade Keys and on the Florida Keys. The pale-brown or orange heart-wood 

 is close-grained, heavy and hard. (W. I.) 



Order SANTALALES. 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees, mostly root- or tree-parasites. Leaves with 

 expanded blades or scale-like. Flowers inconspicuous, perfect or imper- 

 fect. Calyx present but often a mere border. Corolla present or wanting. 

 Androeeium of as many stamens as there are sepals, or petals, or twice as 

 many. Gynoecium of several united carpels. Ovary more or less 

 inferior. Fruit a drupe, a nut, or a berry. 



Family 1. OLACACEAE. Ximenia Family. 



Shrubs, trees, or vines. Leaves usually alternate: blades entire or 

 rarely toothed. Flowers perfect or polygamous, regular, in dichotomous 

 or raceme-like cymes. Calyx of 4r-6 small sepals, surmounting the hypan- 

 thium. Corolla of 4—6 distinct or united 2:)etals. Androeeium of 4—12 

 stamens. Gynoecium 3-4-carj)ellary. Fruit a drupe. 



Petals united to above the middle : stamens as many as the corolla-lobes and oppo- 

 site them : drupe nearly enclosed in the disk. 1. Schoepfia. 



Petals nearly distinct : stamens twice as many as the petals : drupe 



naked. 2. Ximenia. 



1. SCHOEPFIA Schreb. Unarmed shrubs or trees. Leaf-blades thick. 

 Hypanthium filled with an elevated disk. Sepals broad. Petals united to above 

 the middle. Filaments adnate to about the middle of the corolla-tube. Anthers 

 oval or ovoid. Ovary about * inferior. 



1. S. chrysophylloides (A. Eieh.) Planch. Small tree or shrub, with pale 

 branches: leaf -blades ovate to oblong-ovate, 2-6 cm. long: corolla about 4 mm. 

 long; lobes ovate, glabrous: drupes ovoid or oval-ovoid, 10-12 mm. long. [S. 

 Schreberi Small. Not J. F. Gmel.] — All year. 



The Whitewood grows in the coastal hammocks of southern peninsular Florida 

 and the Florida Keys, and in the hammocks of the Everglade Keys. The light- 

 brown or yellowish heart-wood is close-grained, rather heavy, and hard. {W. I.) 



2. XIMENIA [Plum.] L. Thorny shrubs or trees. Leaf -blades thinnish. 

 Hypanthium without an elevated disk. Sepals minute. Petals nearly distinct. 

 Anthers linear. Ovary nearly superior. 



1. X. americana L. Small tree or shrub, with dark branches: leaf-blades ob- 

 long to elliptic or nearly so, 3-7 cm. long: corolla about 10 mm. long; lobes 

 linear, densely pubescent within: drupes subglobose or broadly oval, 14-17 

 mm. long. — AH year. 



The Tallow-wood grows in hammocks of peninsular Florida, and in hammocks 

 and pinelands on the Everglade Keys and the Florida Keys. The yellow or brown 

 heart-wood is close-grained, heavy, and hard. (W. I.) 



Order RUBIALES. 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves opposite, sometimes whorled. 

 Flowers perfect or polygamous, axillary or cymose. Hypanthium perfect. 

 Calyx of 2 or more often small sepals. Corolla of 3 or more partially 



Trees of Florida 7. 



