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RUBIACEAE. 



1. Casasia clusiifolia (Jacq.) 

 Urban. Seven-year Apple. (Fig. 

 392.) A brandling shrub, 3°-8° tall, 

 the foliage glabrous, turning black in 

 drying. Leaves clustered, leathery, 

 obovate to cuneate, 2'-6' long, rounded 

 or retuse at the apex, lustrous, often 

 mucronate, entire, short-petioled; 

 calyx-tube 4"-5" long, turbinate, the 

 lobes subulate, shorter than the tube; 

 corolla fleshy, glabrous, its tube 7'- 

 10" long, its lobes lanceolate or ob- 

 long-lanceolate, shorter than the tube ; 

 berries ovoid to obovoid, 2'-3' long. 

 [Genipa clusiifolia Griseb.] 



Rocky slope near Castle Point, 19'12. 

 Native. Florida, Bahamas, Cuba. Flow- 

 ers in spring or early summer. 



3. CHIOCOCCA L. 



Shrubs, with upright or climbing 

 stems, the leaves opposite, leathery, 

 lustrous; stipules persistent. Flowers perfect, in axillary simple or compound 

 racemes or panicles. Calyx-tube obovate or turbinate, its 5 lobes persistent. 

 Corolla funnelform, with a glabrous throat; lobes 5, spreading or reflexed, 

 valvate. Disk cushion-like. Stamens 5, essentially free from the corolla-tube. 

 Ovary 2-celled or rarely 3-celled; styles united, filiform; stigmas terete, some- 

 times clavate. Ovules solitary in each cavity, pendulous. Fruit white, flat- 

 tened, leathery, sometimes 2-lobed. Seeds pendulous, flattened, the testa mem- 

 branous, the endosperm fleshy. [Greek, snow-berry.] About 7 species, natives 

 of warm-temperate and tropical America. Type species: CJiiococca i^acemosa 

 L. [C. alba (L.) Hitchc] 



1. Chiococca bermudiana S. Brown. 

 Blolly. Bermuda Sxow-berry. (Fig. 

 393.) A shrub, 2°-6° high, or some- 

 times vine-like and 10°-15° long, gla- 

 brous, the rather stout branches light 

 green, terete or nearly so. Leaves ellip- 

 tic to ovate, 2'-4-l' long, f '-2^' wide, firm 

 in texture, light green on both sides, 

 slightly darker above than beneath, acute 

 or short-acuminate at the apex, nar- 

 rowed at the base, the midvein rather 

 prominent on both sides, the lateral veins 

 few, relatively obscure, the stout petioles 

 6" long or less; stipules low and broad, 

 mucronate ; panicles about as long as the 

 leaves; flowers numerous, fragrant; pedi- 

 cels rather stout, 2"-4" long; calyx 

 turbinate-campanulate, about 1" long, 

 its lobes triangular, acutish, much 

 shorter than the tube; corolla yellow, 

 4"-5" long, its tube narrowly funnel- 

 form, about twice as long as the ovate- 

 lanceolate lobes; stamens borne at the 



