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FAMILY 1. EBENACEAE. EBONY FAMILY. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves mostly alternate: blades entire. Flowers 

 solitary or in cymes. Calyx of 3-7 partially united sepals, persistent, 

 accrescent. Corolla of 3-7 partially united petals, often urecolate. An- 

 droecium of 3 or 4 times as many stamens as there are corolla-lobes. 

 Gynoecium of 3-several united carpels. Fruit a berry, or sometimes 

 capsular. 



1. DIOSPYROS L. Shrubs or trees. Leaves scattered: blades entire. 

 Calyx 3-7-lobed. Stamens with pubescent filaments and anthers opening 

 lengthwise. Berry spheroidal or elongate. 



1. D. virginiana L. Shrub, or tree becoming 35 m. tall, the bark very rough: 

 leaf-blades ovate, oval, or elliptic, 8-20 cm. long, acute or acuminate: corolla 

 8-13 mm. long; lobes reniform: berries 3-4 cm. in diameter, astringent when 

 green. Everglades and coastal sand-dunes. PERSIMMON. DATE-PLUM. SIMMON. 



FAMILY 2. SAPOTACEAE. SAPODILLA FAMILY. 



Shrubs or trees, with milky sap, sometimes thorny. Leaves mostly 

 alternate : blades entire. Flowers perfect or rarely polygamous, clustered. 

 Calyx of 4-12, slightly united, sepals. Corolla of 4-12 partially united 

 petals, with or without appendages at the sinuses. Androecium of usually 

 as many stamens as there are corolla-lobes, commonly accompanied by 

 staminodia. Gynoecium of several united carpels. Fruit a several-celled 

 berry, or by suppression 1-celled. 



Staminodia wanting. 1. CHBYSOPHYLLCM. 



Staminodia present. 



Ovary 10-12-celled. 2. SAPOTA. 



Ovary 2-5-celled. 



Corolla-lobes entire. 3. SIDEBOXYLOX. 



Corolla-lobes with a large middle lobe and 2 smaller 



lateral lobes. 



Ovary glabrous : endosperm copious. 4. DIPHOLIS. 



Ovary pubescent: endosperm wanting or scant. 5. BCMELIA. 



1. CHRYSOPHYLLUM L. Shrubs or trees. Leaf -blades commonly 

 lustrous-pubescent beneath. Calyx-lobes mostly 5. Corolla, like the calyx, 

 often pubescent: lobes mostly 5, entire. Anthers emarginate and apiculate. 

 Style wanting. Stigma lobed. 



1. 0. olivaeforme L. Evergreen tree becoming 10 m. tall, the twigs closely 

 pubescent: leaf-blades leathery, oblong, elliptic, or oval, 3-10 cm. long, lus- 

 trous-pubescent beneath: calyx-lobes suborbicular, 1.5 mm. long: corolla white, 

 about 5 mm. wide; lobes suborbicular: berries oval, about 2 cm. long, dark- 

 purple. [C. monopyrenum Sw.] Hammocks. F. K. (Bah., Cuba, Ant.) 

 SATINLEAF. 



2. SAPOTA Mill. Trees. Leaf -blades glabrous. Calyx-lobes 6, or rarely 

 5, pubescent. Corolla glabrous: lobes 6, or rarely 5, toothed. Anthers blunt. 

 Staminodia nearly as long as the corolla-lobes. Style elongate: stigma minute. 

 Berry spheroidal, rough. 



1. S. Achras Mill. Tree with rusty-tomentose twigs: leaves and flowers ap- 

 proximately at the ends of the branchlets ; blades oblong to elliptic, varying to 

 broadest above or below the middle, 5-12 cm. long: pedicels rusty-tomentose, 

 about as long as the petioles: calyx-lobes 8-10 mm. long: corolla 8-10 mm. 



