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or rose-tinged, the tube 3.5-4 cm. long; lobes narrowly linear: capsules elliptic, 

 10-12 mm. long. — Spr. 



The Princewood grows in hammocks on the Everglade Keys and the Florida 

 Keys. The brown and yellow-streaked heart-wood is close-grained, very heavy, hard, 

 and strong, (ir. /.) 



3. CASASIA A. Rich. Unarmed shrubs or trees. Leaf-blades leathery. 

 Flowers in axillary cymes. Sepals 5, broad or narrow. Corolla with a stout 

 tube and 5 relatively broad lobes. Stamens 5: filaments adnate to the lower 

 part of the corolla-tube: anthers elongated, linear-sagittate, included. Berry 

 thick. Seeds angled. 



1. C. clusiifolia (Jacq.) Urban. Small tree or shrub, the bark pale: leaves 

 clustered at the branch-tips; blades cuneate to obovate, 5-15 cm. long: hypan- 

 thium turbinate: sepals subulate: corolla white: tube 16-20 mm. long; lobes 

 acuminate, shorter than the tube: berries mainly obovoid, 5-7 cm. long. [Genipa 

 clusiifolia Jacq.] — Spr. 



The Seven-year-apple grows on sand-dunes and in coastal hammocks of 

 southern peninsular Florida, and on the Everglade Keys and the Florida Keys. The 

 dark-brown or reddish heart-wood is close-grained, very heavy, and hard. (W. I.) 



4. HAMELIA Jacq. Unarmed shrubs or trees. Leaf -blades membranous. 

 Flowers in dichotomous cymes. Sepals 5, minute. Corolla with a narrow 

 fluted tube and 5 very short lobes. Stamens 5 : filaments adnate to the base of 

 the corolla-tube: anthers linear, included. Berry thick. 



1. H. patens Jacq. Small tree or shrub : leaf -blades elliptic, oblong or elliptic- 

 ovate, 8-15 cm. long: hypanthium turbinate: sepals about 1 mm. long: corolla 

 crimson, 1.5-2.3 cm. long; lobes 2-3 mm. long: berries oval or ovoid, 5-7 mm, 

 long, black. [H. erecta Jacq.?] 



The Hamelia grows in hammocks in the lower two-thirds of peninsular Florida 

 and on the Florida Keys. The wood has not yet been studied. (W. I.) 



5. CEPHALANTHUS L. Shrubs or trees. Leaf -blades thinuish. Flowers 

 in capitate cymes. Sepals usually 4, rounded. Corolla with a long tube and 

 usually 4 short lobes. Stamens usually 4: filaments adnate to the throat of the 

 corolla: anthers oblong or nearly so. Nut-like fruit obpyramidal. 



1. C, occidentalis L. Small tree or shrub: leaf -blades oblong, lanceolate, or 

 ovate-lanceolate, .5-20 cm. long, short-petioled : flower-heads globose, 2.5-3.5 

 cm. thick: sepals about 0.5 mm. long: corolla white, about 10 mm. long; lobes 

 ovate to oblong-ovate: nutlets 7-8 mm. long. — All year. 



The BuTTONBUSH grows in swamps and along streams and ponds nearly 

 throughout northern and peninsular Florida. The yellowish or yellow-brown heart- 

 wood is close-grained heavy, and hard. (Cont.) 



6. GUETTAUDA L. Shrubs or trees. Leaf-blades thin or thickish. 

 Flowers in axillary peduncled cymes. Sepals 2-4 or more, short, or obsolete. 

 Corolla with a long tube and 4, or more, shorter lobes. Stamens 4-9 : filaments 

 adnate to near the top of the corolla-tube: anthers narrow, but short. Drupe 

 globular. — All year. 



Corolla 6-8 mm. long: leaf-blades strigillose or glabrate, not rugose. 1. O. cUiptica. 

 Corolla 20-25 mm. long: leaf-blades scabro-pubescent, rugose. 2. G. scabra. 



1. G. elliptica Sw. Small tree or shrub: leaf-blades thin, mainly oblong, oval, 

 or obovate, 2-4 cm. long: corolla-lobes mostly 4: style glabrous: drupes 8-11 

 mm. in diameter. 



The Velvet-seed grows in hammocks on the Everglade Keys and the Florida 

 Keys, and as a shrub in pinelands on the Everglade Keys. The heart-wood is very 

 close-grained, heavy, and hard. (11'. 7.) 



