410 RUBIACEAE. 



1. Casasia clusiaefolia (Jacq.) Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 505. 1908. 



Gardenia clusiaefolia Jacq. Coll. 5: 37. 1796. 

 Genipa clusiaefolia Griseb. Fl, Br. W. I. 317. 1861. 



A branching shrub; 1-3 m. tall, the foliage glabrous, turning black in 

 drying. Leaves clustered, leathery, obovate to cuneate, 5-15 cm. long, rounded 

 or retuse at the apex, lustrous, often mucronate, entire, short-petioled; calyx- 

 tube 8-10 mm. long, turbinate, the lobes subulate, shorter than the tube ; 

 corolla fleshy, glabrous, its tube 1.5-2 cm. long, its lobes lanceolate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, shorter than the tube; berries ovoid to obovoid, 5-7 cm. long. 



Coastal rocks, Berry Islands, the Biminis, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera to 

 Watling's, Caicos, Inagua and the islands of ttie Cay Sal Bank : — Florida ; Bermuda ; 

 Cuba. Seven-year Apple. Catesby, 1 : pi. 59. 



5. RAISTDIA L. Sp. PI. 1192. 1753. 



Evergreen, often spiny shrubs or trees, T^ith oposite leaves and perfect 

 solitary, usually axillary flowers. Calyx-lobes 4. Corolla funnelfomi, salver- 

 form or campanulate, its lobes 5, convolute. Stamens 5, adnate to the throat 

 of the corolla; filaments short or nearly T\'anting. Disk annular or cushion- 

 like. Ovary 2-celled or very rarely 3-4-celled; ovules several or many in each 

 cavity; styles usually united, stout, terminating in a club-shaped, spindle- 

 shaped or rarely cleft stigma. Berry usually 2-celled. Seeds free or in a 

 pulp; testa thin, the endosperm horny. [In honor of Isaac Rand, English 

 apothecary.] About 100 species, natives of tropical regions. Type species: 

 Randia mitis L. 



1. Randia mitis L. Sp. PI. 1192. 1753. 



Bandia aculeata L. Sp. PL 1192. 1763. 



A virgate branching shrub, 1-3 m. tall, or a small tree up to 7 m. high, 

 usually spiny, the foliage glabrous or nearly so. Leaves often clustered, spatu- 

 late, obovate, elliptic, oval or suborbicular, 1-5 cm. long, narrowed into short 

 petioles; flowers axillary, short-stalked; calyx-lobes triangular or ovate; 

 corolla white, 6-8 mm. long, its lobes oblong, shorter than the tube; berries 

 subglobose or oval, w^hite, 8-12 mm. long. 



Scrub-lands and coppices, throughout the archipelago from Abaco, Great Bahama 

 and Andros to Turk's Islands and Inagua : — Bermuda ; Florida ; West Indies and 

 Mexico, Races differ in size and shape of leaves and in size of fruit. Box Beiar. 



6. CATESBAEA L. Sp. PI. 109. 1753. 



Spinescent shrubs or small trees, with terete twigs and small glabrous, 

 often fascicled leaves, the small stipules deciduous. Flowers white, solitary 

 and short-peduncled in the axils. Calyx subcampanulate, with 4 narrow per- 

 sistent lobes. Corolla funnelform or campanulate, its 4 lobes valvate. Stamens 

 4, borne near the base of the corolla. Ovary 2-celled; stigma 2-lobed. Ovules 

 several or many. Fruit a white berry. Seeds with fleshy endosperm. [In 

 honor of Mark Catesby, 1679-1749, traveller and naturalist.] About 8 species, 

 natives of Florida and the West Indies. Type species: Catesbaea spinosa L. 



Flowers very large, drooping. 1. C. spinosa. 

 Flowers very small, nearly concealed among the leaves. 



Leaves 3-10 mm, long, suborbicular to oblanceolate. 2. C. parviflora. 



Leaves 8-13 mm. long, linear to obovate-spatulate. 3. C. foliosa. 



