100 CAPEIFOLIACEAE. 



2. G. scabra Vent. Small tree or shrub : leaf-blades thick, mainly oblong, oval, 

 or oblong-ovate, 4.5-8 cm. long, or rarely smaller: corolla-lobes mostly 6 or 7: 

 style pubescent: drupes about 6 mm. in diameter. 



The Rough velvet-seed grows in hammocks in the coastal hammocks of 

 southern peninsular Florida and the hammocks of the Everglade Keys and the 

 Florida Keys, and as a shrub in pineiands on the Everglade Keys. The wood has 

 not yet been studied. {W. I.) 



7. PSYCHOTKIA L. Shrubs or trees. Leaf-blades thinuish. Flowers 

 in terminal or axillary cymes. Sepals 4-6, short and broad. Corolla with a 

 relatively short tube and 4-6 usually somewhat shorter lobes. Stamens 4-6: 

 filaments adnate to near the top of the corolla-tube: anthers oblong to oval. 

 Drupe thick, often berry-like. — All year. 



Cymes sessile : sepals very low. 1. P. undata. 



Cymes peduncled : sepals deltoid. 2. P. iahamensis. 



1. P. undata Jacq. Small tree or shrub, the twigs glabrous: leaf -blades oval, 

 elliptic, or elliptic-lanceolate, 6-15 cm. long: corolla white; tube 2.5-3 mm. 

 long: anthers oval: drupes 5-6.5 mm. long, red. 



The Wild-coffee grows in hammocks in the lower two-thirds of peninsular 

 Florida, and on the Everglade Keys and the Florida Keys. The wood has not yet 

 been studied. (TF. /.) 



2. P. bahamensis Millsp. Small tree or shrub, the twigs glabrous: leaf-blades 

 lanceolate, elliptic, or oblanceolate, 3-12 cm. long: corolla white; tube 3-4 mm. 

 long: anthers oblong: drupes oval or globular, 4-5 mm. long, bright-orange. 



The Bahaman wild-coffeb grows in hammocks on the Florida Keys. The 

 wood has not yet been studied. (W. I.) 



I Family 2. CAPEIFOLIACEAE. Honeysuckle Family. 



Shrubs, trees, vines, or perennial herbs. Leaves opposite : blades 

 entire, toothed, or pinnate. Flowers mostly perfect, in terminal or axil- 

 lary cymes, or axillary. Calyx of mostly 4 or 5 minute or foliaceous 

 sepals. Corolla of 4 or 5 partially united petals, often irregular. Androe- 

 •cium of 4 or 5 stamens: filaments partially adnate to the corolla-tube. 

 'Gynoecium 2-5-earpellary. Ovary inferior. Fruit baccate, drupaceous, 

 'or capsular. 



!Leaf-blades pinnate : druplets with 3-5 nut-like stones. 1. Sambdcds. 



SLeaf-blades entire or toothed : drupelets with a single stone. 2. Vibuknom. 



1. SAMBUCUS [Tourn.] L. Shrubs or trees, with pithy stems. Leaf- 

 blades pinnate. Flowers in thyrsoid or flat-topped cymes. Sepals minute. 

 Anthers oblong or oval. Ovary 3-5-celled. Drupelets with 3-5 stones. — 

 Elder. 



1. S. intermedia Carr. Small tree or shrub: leaflets 5-11, the blades oblong to 

 ovate or oval, 3-14 cm. long, serrate with incurved teeth: cymes merely convex: 

 corolla 5-6 mm. wide : di-upes nearly black, 4-6 mm. in diameter. — Spr. 



The Florida-elder grows in low swamps, woods and hammocks nearly through- 

 out the Florida mainland. The brown wood is close-grained but light and soft. 

 {Cont., W. I.) 



2. VIBUBNUM [Tourn.] L. Shrubs or trees, the stems not pithy. Leaf- 

 blades simple. Flowers in round-topped cymes. Sepals minute. Anthers 

 oblong. Ovary 1-celled. Drupelets with a single stone. — Spr. & sum. — 

 Arrows-wood. 



