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10. CALLICARPA L. 



Shrubs or trees, with opposite leaves, and small blue purple or white 

 flowers in axillary cymes. Calyx short, campanulate, 4-toothed (rarely 5- 

 toothed), or truncate. Corolla-tube short, expanded above, the limb 4-cleft 

 (rarely 5-cleft), the lobes equal. Stamens 4, equal, exserted; anther-sacs 

 parallel. Ovary incompletely 2-celled; ovules 2 in each cavity, laterally at- 

 tached, amphitropous ; style slender; stigma capitate, or 2-lobed. Fruit a 

 berry-like drupe, much longer than the calyx, containing 1-4 nutlets. [Greek, 

 handsome fruit.] About 35 species, the following of southeastern North 

 America, the others Asiatic, African and of tropical America, the following 

 typical. 



1. Oallicarpa americana L. 



Turkey-berry. French Mul- 

 berry. (Fig. 342.) A shrub, 

 2°-5° high, the twigs, petioles 

 and young leaves stellate-scurfy, 

 the mature leaves glabrous or 

 nearly so, and glandular-dotted. 

 Twigs terete; leaves thin, ovate, 

 slender-petioled, acute or acumi- 

 nate, crenate-dentate, 2^'-6' long; 

 cymes many-flowered, short-pe- 

 duucled; pedicels very short; 

 calyx-teeth much shorter than the 

 tube; corolla pale blue, about 2" 

 long; fruit violet-blue, globose, 

 1^" in diameter. [C. ferruginea 

 of Reade, Lefroy, Verrill, Hems- 

 ley and H. B. Small.] 



Paget Marsh, 1913. Native. Recorded as formerly growing in woodlands be- 

 tween Harrington Sound and Castle Harbor, but not found in that region recently. 

 Southeastern United States. Flowers in spring and summer. The large clusters of 

 fruit are very showy. 



11. AVICENNIA L. 



Evergreen trees, sometimes shrubby, with nodose twigs, opposite entire 

 leathery leaves without stipules, and peduncled clusters of white bracted 

 flowers. Calyx cup-shaped, silky, with 5 persistent lobes. Corolla campanu- 

 late, its short tube nearly cylindric, its limb spreading, 4-lobed. Stamens 4, 

 adnate to the corolla-tube, the anthers introrse. 0\'ary sessile, 1-celled ; ovules 

 4, on a central placenta; style short, 2-lobed. Fruit capsular, oblique, apicu- 

 late. Seeds without endosperm, usually germinating in the capsule. [In 

 honor of Avieenna (980-1036) of Bokhara, a distinguished oriental physician.] 

 Three known species, of tropical and subtropical seaeoasts. Type species: 

 Avicennia officinalis L. 



