PLANTS OF BERMUDA. ^ 



inches wide, black when dry, veins forming a continuous arch dis- 

 tant from the undulated margin ; petioles dark red, quarter-inch 

 long ; flowers in inconspicuous axillary clusters of eight to ten, the 

 interior ones forming a minute raceme, flower- stalks rather shorter 

 than petiole and bearing a small pointed bract ; calyx four-lobed ; 

 petals four, minute ; berry ? Distribution, Bahamas and other West 

 Indian Islands; habitat, north point Boaz Island (elsewhere?) 

 probably indigenous. Flowers white ; July. 



II. TUNICA. 



Leaves u-ithout dots; her ry onany- celled, many-seeded. 



1. P. (jranatnm (Pomegranate). An erect, branched shrub or 

 small tree ; leaves lance-shaped or narrow, oblong, entire, with 

 short petioles ; calyx tube enlarged, leathery, persistent, with a 

 five-parted valvate limb ; petals five to seven, crumpled ; stamens 

 numerous, inserted into calyx - tub e ; fruit with a dense leathery 

 rind, enclosing several irregular cells and numerous seeds covered 

 with pulp. Distribution, most warm countries ; habitat, common 

 in hedges and shrubberies. Flowers large, crimson; June and 

 July. 



Nat : Ord : 24 Rldzoporacccc. 



Shrubs or trees with opposite leaves and deciduous stiiDules ; calyx 

 valvate, four to five lobed ; petals four to five ; stamens twice as 

 many as i^etals ; ovaiy two to four celled, each contaiuiug two or 

 more ovules ; style simple ; fruit one -seeded, crowned by the per- 

 sistent calyx. 



I. HHizoroiiA. 



1. H. Mcoujle (Mangrove.) An evergreen spreading tree, from the 

 branches of which continually descend rod- like, secondary roots, 

 which x:)enetrate into the soil, and form new trunks ; leaves craite 

 entire, four inches long, oval or oblong, ovate, blunt, smooth, 

 leathery, shining ; stipules large, opposite, embracing the stem, on 

 which they leave ring-like scars ; floAver-stalks axillary, divided, 

 bearing two to three floAvers ; cah^x four-lobed, leathery ; petals 

 four, deciduous, irrcgulaiij'- cut along the margin ; stamens eight ; 

 seed usually germinating on the tree, and forming a long root 

 before sex)arating from the parent. Distribution, tropical seashores 

 and swamx:)S ; habitat, common in Bermuda, forming the mangrove 

 sv/amps ; usually much intermixed with the false mangrove {Avken- 

 nia nitida), from which it is easily distinguished by its darker 

 foliage. Flowers yellow ; August to November. 



JYai : Ord: 25 Comhretacea . 



Shrubs or trees witli opposite or alternate leaves and no stipules ; 

 calyx superior, four to five lobed, valvate, deciduous ; petals four 

 to five or none ; stamens five to ten, inserted on calyx ; ovaiy infe- 

 rior, one -celled, with two to four ovules ; style and stigma simple ; 

 seed solitary. 



The Demerara Almond {Term'malia Caiappa)^ the seeds of Vi'hich 



