28 TLxVNTS OF BERMUDA. 



arc edible, and a West Indian tree, Bucida huccras, have been intro- 

 duced at Mount Langtou. 



I. coxocAiirus. 



Flowers in dcmc flower -heads ; petals none. 



1. C. procumhens (Butterwood). A prostrate, contorted shrub, 

 Avith knotted and densely interwoven branches ; leaves alternate, 

 leathery, shortly petioled, obovate, oblong, poiutletted, silvery 

 Avith minute down when young, afterwards smooth, shining, pitted 

 beneath in the vein axils, tvro inches long ; flower-heads globose, 

 arranged in terminal or axillary racemes, their stalks hoary and 

 supported b,y bracts ; calj'x minute, the limb five -parted and 

 deciduous ; stamens eight, inserted in cah^x and twice its length ; 

 fruit a cone-like head of brown one- seeded nuts, densely imbri- 

 cated round a woodj^ axis. Distribution, Florida and West Indies ; 

 habitat, seaside rocks, very common, probably indigenous. Flower- 

 heads half-inch in diameter ; September to December. 



2. C. crcctus (Button wood). A shrub, scarcely distinct as a spe- 

 cies from the above, is common in marshes and swamps ; in these 

 situations it appears an erect shrub or small tree, with straight 

 branches and lance-shaped leaves ; other organs as in C. procumhens. 



Xat : Ovd : 26 Onaejraceix. 



Herbs or shrubs v/ith simple, entire or toothed leaves ; calyx 

 superior, with a valvate, four-lobed limb ; petals four, inserted into 

 throat of calj^x ; stamens four to eight, inserted into calyx ; pollen 

 graiiTs connected by threads ; ovary inferior, four-ceiled ; style 

 narrow; stigma capitate or four-lobed; fruit a four-celled, many- 

 seeded capsule. 



To this order beloiig the garden Fuchsias ; but although fresh 

 varieties arc constantly being imported, they do not appear to take 

 kindly to our climate and soon dfe off. 



I. CEXOTKERA. 



CdhjX'iuhe longer than ovary, its lohcs cohering irregularly together; 

 stamens eight ; style long, nxn'row ; stigma four -lohed. 



1. ^I'j. long'' flora (Evening Primrose). A biennial, erect plant, all 

 parts coated with dense .soft hairs ; leaves variable, ovate, hastate 

 or narrow oblong, blunt at base, acute pointed, fevr and irregularly 

 toothed ; flowers axillary ; calj'x-tube three times length of ovar}'-, 

 narrow, three inches long, limb four-parted, rcflcxed, the divisior.s 

 cohering in pairs; petals large, two-lobed; stigma with four long 

 arms: (\ap.-ulc one inch long, narrow, four - angled ; seeds small. 

 Distribution, .South America, introduced V.\^st Indies ; habitat, not 

 uncommon in waste land as a garden csca])e. Flowers yellow, 

 three inches in diameter ; I\Iay to August. 



2. JIL Sinuata. An annual, pubescent plant ; leaves one inch 

 long, sessile, narrow-oblong, deeply and irregularly toothed, wavy ; 

 <"alyx-tubc twice as long as ovary, limb as in preceding species ; 

 petals obovate ; stigma four-parted ; capsule erect, three-quarter 



