Long Stalked Stopper 



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black dotted beneath; the rather stout leaf-stalk is 2 to 6 mm. long. The flowers 

 are 6 to 8 mm. wide and ap- 

 pear at nearly all seasons, in 

 several flowered, axillary clus- 

 ters, on smooth pedicels 6 to 

 15 mm. long; the calyx is 

 punctate, its 4 lobes ovate 

 and sharp-pointed ; corolla 

 white, its blunt petals ovate. 

 The fruit, which is sohtary, 

 or 2 to 4 together, is subglo- 

 bose, scarlet, 5 to 8 mm. 

 in diameter, glandular and 



capped by the calyx- lobes; its ^^^^"^^^^^^^^ 3 



flesh is thin and drj^ish; seed || 5 



nearly globular, light brown 



and shining. ^^^- ^^^- " Garber's Stopper. 



The wood is ver\^ hard, strong, close-grained, and reddish brown; its specific 

 gravity is about 0.94. The dark green lustrous foliage is very striking, the leaves 

 characteristically drooping. 



5. LONG STALKED STOPPER Eugenia longipes Berg 



Although usually a low shrub, this rarely becomes a small tree up to 4 meters 



high, with a trunk i dm. in diameter. It grows 

 in sandy or rocky soil in southern Florida and 

 the Bahama islands. 



The twigs are slender, shghtly hairy, reddish 

 brown to gray. The leaves are thick and leath- 

 er}', oblong to oval, i to 3 cm. long, sharp or 

 blunt-pointed, narrowed or rounded at the base, 

 entire and revolute on the margin, bright green, 

 smooth and shining, with prominent yellowish 

 midrib above, shghtly paler, finely netted and 

 black dotted beneath, the leaf-stalk stout and 

 short. The flowers are in axillar\', few-flowered 

 clusters on pedicels 2 to 6 cm. long ; calyx smooth 

 but glandular punctate, its 4 lobes ovate to 

 broadly ovate; the corolla is white, 8 to 10 mm. 

 broad, its petals oblong, much longer than the 

 lobes of the calyx. The fruit is a subglobose, 

 Fig. 667. Long Stalked Stopper, ^i^^j-k red berr\', 6 to 9 mm. in diameter, crowned 

 with the very large persistent calyx-lobes. 



