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Whitewood 



blunt pointed, tapering or abruptly contracted at the base, entire on the margin, 

 light green and smooth above, slightly paler beneath; the leaf-stalk is short and 

 winged. The flowers are perfect, axillary, in clusters of 2 or 3, or sohtary, pink 

 or red; the calyx is cup-shaped, 2 mm. high, shghtly dilated and entire- rimmed, 

 almost filled by a fleshy disk; the corolla is leathery, narrowly bell-shaped, 4 mm. 

 long, 4-ribbed, smooth; the 4 lobes are sharp-pointed and revolute; the 4 stamens 

 are adnate to the base of the corolla- lobes, anthers sessile; ovary 3-celled, mostly 

 immersed in the disk, style short, stigma 3-lobed. 



Fig. 331. White Wood. 



The fruit is a scarlet ovoid or ovoid-oval drupe, 10 to 12 mm. long, almost 

 entirely enclosed in the accrescent calyx; the seed is usually sohtary in each cell 

 of the crustaceous stone. 



The genus contains about 15 species of trees or shrubs of the tropical regions 

 of America and Asia; S. Schreberi Gmelin, of the Windward islands, is the type 

 of the genus. 



The name is in commemoration of Johann David Schoepf (1752-1800), a 

 German physician and botanist, who traveled in North America and the West 

 Indies. 



