62 PLANTS OF BERMUDA. 



tish, without iiivolucral bracts ; floral bracts slender, long-pointed, 

 half as long as the (half -inch) corolla-tube ; drupe globose, one- 

 quarter of an inch in diameter, purple. Distribution, Bahamas ; 

 habitat, waysides, plantations, &c., common. Flowers yellow, 

 changing to orange-red ; heads one to one and a half inches in diam- 

 eter ; summer months. 



3. i. acnUata (Prickly Sage -bush). A few trees of this species 

 grow near Public Buildings, stems and flower- stalks prickly and 

 flowers changing from orange to red. I have not met with it out of 

 cultivation. 



Y. CITHAREXYLUM. 



^ Trees vjith opposite, entire leaves and odorous flowers, in spikes or 

 racemes ; calyx hell-shaped, five-toothed ; corolla funnel-shaped, limb five- 

 lobed, nearly regular ; drape two-celled, cells one or ttvo-seeded. 



1. G. quadrangulare (Piddlewood) . A tall tree, twenty to forty 

 feet high ; trunk and larger branches cylindrical, branchlets four- 

 angled ; leaves three to eight inches long, papery, smooth and shin- 

 ning, ovate, oblong, quite entire, tapering to a bluntish point, 

 rounded at base, shortly petioled ; racemes nodding, elongating to 

 ten or twelve inches ; calyx one-twelfth of an inch long, membra- 

 nous, closely applied to corolla-tube ; drupe black. Distribution, 

 West Indies ; habitat, roadsides and plantations, not uncommon. 

 Flowers white, quarter-inch in diameter ; September and October. .. 



The slender, wiry axis of the spike is persistent, and hangs 

 withered from the branche?; for months after the fruit has fallen off. 

 A valuable timber tree. 



VI. CALLICAIIPA. 



Shrubs xcith simple leaves and axillary cymes of small flowers ; calyx 

 four -toothed ; eorolla bell-shaped, with four equal lobes ; stamens four, 

 protrudiny ; drupe fuur- seeded . 



1. C. ferruyinea. A shrub three or four feet high ; branches, 

 petioles, and under surface of leaves clothed with rusty, wooU}' 

 down ; leaves three to four inches long, broadly lanceolate, serrate, 

 pointed, tapering at base into tlie petiole ; cymes terminal and 

 axillary, many-flowered: calyx glandular ; drupe sub -globose, red. 

 Distribution, Jamaica ; habitat, woods near caves. Flowers pale 

 blue, quarter-inch in diameter : June. 



VII. CLERODENDUON . 



Shrubs with simple, opposite leaves, and nearly regular, five-lohed 

 flowers ; stamens four, greatly protruding : fruit a four-seeded berry. 



I. C. aeulealum {Wild Coffee). A bushy shrub, five to six feet 

 higli ; branches rounded ; loaves one and a half inches long, oval, 

 glos.sy, quite entire, tapering at base into the short, jointed petioles ; 

 the latter falhng off, but leaving short, abrupt spines : cymes axil- 

 lary, usually three flowered : calyx short, with five triangular. 



