88 MYBTACEAE. 



simple, pellucid-punctate, flat, terete or semiterete, often with nerves 

 parallel with the margins. Flowers perfect, regular. Calyx of 4 or 5, or 

 many, valvate or imbricate, persistent sepals, or cap-like and deciduous. 

 Petals borne on the margin of a hypanthium or wanting. Androechun of 

 numerous stamens, or very rarely of as many as the sepals. Gynoecium 

 compound. Ovary inferior or partly so, 1-many-celled. Styles united. 

 Fruit sometimes dehiscent, often crowned with the calyx. 



Calyx of several persistent valvate sepals : petals present. 

 Calyx of regularly separating sepals. 



Inflorescence centripetal : flowers in raceme-like, umbel- 

 like or contracted clusters. 1. EUGENIA. 

 Inflorescence centrifugal : flowers in cymes. 2. ANAMOMIS. 

 Calyx of irregulary separating sepals. 3. PSIDIUM. 

 Calyx lid-like, deciduous : petals wanting. 4. CALYPTBANTHES. 



1. EUGENIA [Mich.] L. Shrubs or trees. Leaf -blades not prominently 

 ribbed. Flower-clusters short-peduncled or sessile. Berry crowned with the 

 persistent calyx. Seeds 1-4. STOPPER. 



Leaf-blades broadest below the middle : fruit broader than long. 1. E. "buxifolia. 



Leaf-blades broadest above the middle : fruit longer than broad. 2. E. axillaris. 



1. E. buxifolia (Sw.) Willd. Shrub or small tree, the bark scaly: leaf-blades 

 cuneate to nearly oblong, 2-4 cm. long, much paler beneath than above: 

 corolla 4-5 mm. broad; petals longer than wide: fruits oval or oblong oval, 

 6-7 mm. broad, black. SPANISH-STOPPER. 



Coastal hammocks of lower pen. Fla. and further n. on the eastern coast, and 

 in the hammocks of the E. Keys and F. Keys. (W. I.) Sum. 



2. E. axillaris (Sw.) Willd. Shrub or small tree, the bark scaly: leaf -blades 

 elliptic-ovate to nearly elliptic, 3-5 cm. long, slightly paler beneath than above : 

 corolla 5-6 mm. broad; petals mostly wider than long: fruits spheroidal, 10-12 

 mm. broad, black. WHITE-STOPPER. 



Coastal hammocks of the lower eastern coast, and those of the E. Keys and F. 

 Keys. (W. I.) Sum. 



2. ANAMOMIS Griseb. Shrubs or trees. Leaf -blades not ribbed. Cymes 

 sessile or long-peduncled, sometimes 1-flowered. Berry crowned with the per- 

 sistent calyx. Seeds 1 or 2 or many. 



Cymes markedly peduncled and several-flowered : seapls suborbicular or reniform : 



petals 3-4 mm. long : seeds 1 or 2, large. 1. A. dicrana. 



Cymes usually sessile and 1-flowered : sepals oblong to ovate : 



petals 6-8 mm. long : seeds numerous, small. 



Petals 4-5 mm. long : calyx less than 1 cm. wide. 2. A. longipes. 



Petals 6-7 mm. long : calyx over 1 cm. wide. 3. A. bahamensis. 



1. A. dicrana (Berg) Britton. Shrub, or small tree becoming 8 m. tall: leaf- 

 blades oblong to cuneate or obovate-cuneate, 2-4 cm. long: terminal flowers of 

 each cyme sessile: corolla 8-9 mm. wide; petals white, fully twice as long as 

 the sepals: fruits 6-7 mm. in diameter: seeds dull. NAKED-STOPPER. 



Hammocks, coastal region of lower pen. Fla. and further n. on the eastern coast, 

 and on the E. Keys and F. Keys. (W.I.) 



2. A. longipes (Berg) Britton. Shrub or small tree, with prostrate-diffuse or 

 sometimes erect stems: leaf -blades mainly ovate or oval, 1-3.5 cm. long, finely 

 reticulate: terminal flower of each cyme long-stalked: corolla 12-14 mm. 

 wide; petals white or pink, much longer than the sepals: fruits 6-9 mm. in 

 diameter. LONG-STALKED STOPPER. 



Pinelands and about hammocks, E. Keys and F. Keys. (W. I.) 



3. A. bahamensis (Kiaersk.) Britton. Shrub with diffuse branches or a small 

 tree: leaf -blades orbicular, oval, or elliptic, or somewhat ovate, mostly 2-4 cm. 



