412 EUBIACEAE. 



1, Hamelia erecta Jacq. Ennm. 16. 1760. 



Hamelia patens Jacq. Enum. 16. 1760. 



A shrub; or small tree up to about 4 m. high, with slender branches, the 

 tTvigs, leaves and inflorescence jDuberulent. Leaves opposite, or verticillate in 

 3 's to 5 's, thin, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 5-15 cm. long, acute or acuminate 

 at the apex, mostly narrowed at the base, the slender petioles one-fourth to 

 one-half as long as the blades; stipules lance-subulate, 2-3 mm. long; cymes 

 3-5-rayed ; flowers numerous, very short-pedicelled ; corolla crimson to scarlet, 

 tubular, 12-20 mm. long, its lobes very short; berries dark red or purple, 5-6 

 mm. long, a little produced beyond the calyx. 



Coppices, New Providence : — Florida ; West Indies ; continental tropical America. 

 Scarlet Hamelia. 



8. GUETTARDA L. Sp. PI. 991. 1753. 



Trees or shrubs, with opposite leaves and deciduous stipules, the axillary 

 cymo&e, or sometimes solitary flowers, perfect or polygamo-dioecious. Calyx 

 with an ovoid or globose tube, the limb tubular, rarely persistent, mostly trun- 

 cate or irregularly toothed. Corolla salverform, the tube elongated, sometimes 

 curved, the limb with 4-9 obtuse imbricated lobes. Stamens as many as the 

 corolla-lobes, borne on the corolla-tube; filaments very short or none; anthers 

 linear. Ovary 4-9-celled; ovules 1 in each cavity, pendulous; style filiform; 

 stigma capitate or 2-lobed. Fruit drupaceous. [In honor of Jean Etienne 

 Guettard, 1715-1786, French botanist.] Sixty species or more, mostly of 

 tropical America. Type species: Guettarda speciosa L. 



Leaves coriaceous. 



Leaves scabrous above; fruit 4-6 mm. in diameter. 1. O. scahra. 



Leaves smooth above ; fruit 9-12 mm. in diameter. 2. G. Krugii. 



Leaves chartaceous or membranous. 



Leaves strongly reticulate-veined, and densely pale-pubescent 

 beneath : corolla 1-3 cm. long. 

 Inflorescence several-many-flowered. 



Leaves 9-12 cm. long, acute at apex ; corolla 2 cm. lono^. 3. G. Nas7iu. 

 Leaves 5 cm. long or less, rounded at apex ; corolla 1 cm. 



long. 4. G. Taylori. 



Flowers solitary in the upper axils : corolla 3 cm. long. 5. G. inagnensis. 



Leaves not reticulate-veined, finely pubescent or glabrate be- 

 neath ; corolla about 6 mm. long. 6. G. elUptica. 



1. Guettarda scabra (L.) Lam. Tabl. Encycl. 2: 218. 1819. 



Matthiola scahra L. Sp. PI. 1192. 1753. 



A shrub or tree up to 10 m, high, the young twigs villous-tomentose. 

 Leaves elliptic to ovate or obovate, coriaceous, 3-15 cm. long, obtuse or short- 

 pointed and mucronate at the apex, subcordate or obtuse at the base, usually 

 very rough (rarely becoming smooth) above, densely reticulate-veined and 

 finely pubescent beneath, the stout pubescent petioles 0.5-2 cm. long; stipules 

 triangular-lanceolate, acute, 2-3 mm. long; peduncles few-flowered, 2-10 cm. 

 long; calyx finely pubescent, about 3 mm. long; corolla 1.5-2 cm. long, 

 appressed-pubescent; white^ its oblong lobes much shorter than the tube; fruit 

 globose, red, finely pubescent, 4-6 mm. in diameter, the calyx-limb at length 

 wholly deciduous. Flowers fragrant. 



Scrub-lands and coppices, Abaco, Great Bahama, Andros. New Providence, Eleu- 

 thera. Cat Island, Crooked Island, Mariguana. Caicos and Inagua : — Florida ; Cuba 

 to Virgin Gorda and Martinique; Jamaica; continental tropical America. G. speciosa 

 of Schoepf. ? Rough Velvet-seed. Vel%'et-beeby. 



