CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 89' 



146. Eugenia monticola, De CandoUe, 



Prodr. iii, 275. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 131. Grisebach , Fl. British West Indies, 236. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 15. 



Myrtus monticola, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ ii, 898. 



i 

 U. triplinervia, Berg in Linnsea, xxvii, 190, in part. 



H, axillaris, Berg in LinniBa, xxvii, 201, in part. 



STOPPEE. WHITE STOPPER. 



Florida, Saint John's river to Umbrella Key ; rare ; in the West Indies. 



A small tree, rarely 7 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 meter in diameter, or in northern Florida reduced 

 to a low shrub. 



Wood very heavy, hard, strong, very close-grained, compact ; medullary rays numerous, thin ; color, brown,, 

 often tinged with red, the sap-wood darker; specific gravity, 0.9156 ; ash, 1.89. 



147. Eugenia longipes, Berg, 

 Linnaea, xxvii, 150. Chapman, Fl. S. States, Snppl. 620. 



STOPPER. 



Semi-tropical Florida, No-Name Key ; in the West Indies. 



A small tree, 4 to 7 meters in height, with a trunk 0.15 to 0.20 meter in diameter ; rare. 



Wood very heavy, hard, close-grained, checking badly in drying, containing many evenly-distributed open 

 ducts ; medullary rays numerous, very obscure ; color, dark brown or nearly black, the sap-wood brown tinged 

 with red ; specific gravity, 1.1235 ; ash, 3.48. 



The small red fruit with the flavor of cranberries. 



148. Eugenia procera, Poiret, 



Snppl. ii, 129. De CandoUe, Prodr. iii, 268. Nuttall, Sylva, i, 106, t. 28; 2 ed. i, 122, t. 28. Berg in Linnasa, xxvii, 207. Cooper in 

 Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 264. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 131. Grisebach, Fl. British West Indies, 238. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 15. 



Myrtus procera, Swartz, Prodr. 77 ; Fl. Ind. Occ. ii, 887. Willdenow, Spec, ii, 968. 

 E. Baruensis, Grisebach, Cat. PI. Cub. [not Jacquiu], 87. 



RED STOPPER, 



Semi-tropical Florida, shores of b.ay Biscayne, Key Largo, Elliott's Key ; in the West Indies. 



A tree, 12 to 18 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 to 0.45 meter in diameter ; often forming extensive groves, 

 and reaching its greatest development in the United States in the neighborhood of Miami, bay Biscayne. 



Wood very heavy, exceedingly hard, very strong and close-grained, compact; medullary rays numerous, 

 hardly distinguishable ; color, light yellow-brown, the sap-wood darker ; specific gravity, 0.9453 ; ash, 2.62 ; 

 probably valuable in cabinet-making and as a substitute for box-wood for coarse wood-engraving. 



Note. Pgidium Guaiara, Raddi, the Guava, widely cultivated in the tropics for its fruit, is now sparingly naturalized in semi-tropical 

 Florida. 



CACTAOEiE. 



149. Cereus giganteus, Engehnann; 



Emory's Rep. 158 ; Am. Jonr. Sci. 2 ser. xiv, 335; xvii, 231; Proc. Am. Acad, iii, 287; Bot.Mex. Boundary Survey, Cactaceee, 42, t. 61, 

 62 & front.; Brewer & Watson, Bot. California, i, 247. Thurber in Mem. Am. Acad, new ser. v, 302, 305. Fl. des Serres, x, 24, 

 & t.; XV, 187, t. 1600. Bigelow in Pacific R. R. Rep. iv, 12. Engelmann & Bigelow in Pacific R. R. Rep. iv, 36. Walpers, 

 Ann. V, 40. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 259. Lemaire, 111. Hort. ix. Misc. 95. Marcou in Jour. Hort. Soc. Franco, 2 ser. iii, 

 676. Lindley, Treasury Bot. 256, t. 17. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 15. Rothrock in Wheeler's Rep. vi, front. Hemsley, Bot. 

 Am.-Cent. i, 343. James in Am. Nat. xv, 982, f. 3. 



Piloccreus Engelmanni, Lemaire, 111. Hort. ix. Misc. 95. 



