CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 89 



146. Eugenia monticola, De Candolle, 



Prodr. iii, 275. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 131. Grisebach , Fl. British West Indies, 236. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 15. 

 Myrtus monticola, Swartz, Fl.Ind. Occ.ii, 898. 

 E, triplinervia, Berg in Liniuea, xxvii, 19J, in part. 

 E. amllaris, Berg in Linnoja, xxvii, 201, in part. 



STOPPER. WHITE STOPPER. 



Florida, Saint John's river to Umbrella Key ; rare; in the West Indies. 



A small tree, rarely 7 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 meter in diameter, or in northern Florida reduced 

 to a low shrub. 



Wood very heavy, hard, strong, very close-grained, compact ; medullary rays numerous, thin ; color, brown, 

 often tinged with red, the sap-wood darker ; specific gravity, 0.9156 ; ash, 1.89. 



147. Eugenia longipes, Berg, 

 Linnoea, xxvii, 150. Chapman, Fl. S. States, Suppl. 620. 



STOPPEE. 



Semi-tropical Florida, No-Name Key ; in the West Indies. 



A small tree, 4 to 7 meters in height, with a trunk 0.15 to 0.20 meter in diameter ; rare. 



Wood very heavy, hard, close-grained, checking badly in drying, containing many evenly-distributed open 

 ducts ; medullary rays numerous, very obscure ; color, dark brown or nearly black, the sap-wood brown tinged 

 with red ; specific gravity, 1.1235 ; ash, 3.48. 



The small red fruit with the flavor of cranberries. 







148. Eugenia procera, Poiret, 



Suppl. ii, 129. De Candolle, Prodr. iii, 268. Nuttall, Sylva, i, 106, t. 28; 2 ed. i, 122, t. 28. Berg in Linntea, xxvii, 207. Cooper ui 

 Smithsonian Eep. 1858, 264. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 131. Grisebach, Fl. British West Indies, 238. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 16. 



Myrtus procera, Swartz, Prodr. 77; Fl. Ind. Occ. ii, 887. Willdenow, Spec, ii, 968. 

 E. Baruemis, Grisebach, Cat. PI. Cub. [not Jacquin], 87. 



EED STOPPER. 



Semi-tropical Florida, shores of bay Biscay ne, Key Largo, Elliott's Key; in the West Indies. 



A tree, 12 to 18 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 to 0.45 meter in diameter ; often forming extensive groves, 

 and reaching its greatest development in the United States in the neighborhood of Miami, bay Biscayne. 



Wood very heavy, exceedingly hard, very strong and close-grained, compact; medullary rays numerous, 

 hardly distinguishable ; color, light yellow-brown, the sap-wood darker ; specific gravity, 0.9453 ; ash, 2.62 ; 

 probably valuable in cabinet-making and as a substitute for box-wood for coarse wood-engraving. 



NOTE. Ptridium Gitaiai-a, Raddi, the Guava, widely cultivated in the tropics for its fruit, is now sparingly naturalized in semi-tropical 

 Florida. 



CACTACE^. 



149. Cereus giganteus, Engelmann; 



Emory's Eep. 158 ; Am. Jour. Sci. 2 ser. xiv, 335 ; xvii, 231 ; Proc. Am. Acad. iii, 287 ; Bot. Mex. Boundary Survey, Cactacese, 42, t. 61, 

 62 & front.; Brewer & Watson, Bot. California, i, 247. Thurber in Mem. Am. Acad. new ser. v, 302, 305. Fl. des Serres, x, 24, 

 & t. ; xv, 187, t. 1600. Bigelow in Pacific E. E. Eep. iv, 12. Engelmann & Bigelow iii Pacific R. E. Eep. iv, 36. Walpers, 

 Ann. v, 46. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1*58, 259. Lemaire, 111. Hort. ix, Misc. 95. Marcou in Jour. Hort. Soc. France, 2 ser. iii, 

 676. Lindley, Treasury Bot. 256, t. 17. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 15. Eotbrock in Wheeler's Rep. vi, front. Hemsley, Bot. 

 Am. -Cent, i, :i4;i. James in Am. Nat. xv, 982, f. 3. 



PiloCi'TCUK Engdmanni, Lemaire, 111. Hort. ix, Misc. 95. 



