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pairs, opposite, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, thin, 4-10 cm. long, mostly acute or 

 acuminate at the apex, obliquely narrowed at the base, sessile, pinnately veined ; 

 racemes narrow, many-flowered, 6-10 cm. long, often numerous in terminal 

 panicles; pedicels spreading, 4-6 mm. long; flowers very fragrant; calyx- 

 segments about 2 mm. long; petals obovate, obtuse, greenish white, ciliate, 3-4 

 mm. long; drupe green, edible, pleasantly acid, subglobose, 2-4 cm. in diameter. 



New Providence, apparently spontaneous after cultivation : West Indies ; Cen- 

 tral America and northern South America. GENIP. 



6. EXOTHEA Macf. Fl. Jam. 1: 232. 1837. 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate petioled evenly pinnate leaves, and small 

 white somewhat irregular, dioecious or polygamous, panicl^d flowers. Sepals 5, 

 partly united, imbricated. Petals 5, short-clawed, unappendaged. Stamens 7 

 or 8, those of staminate flowers about as long as the petals, those of pistillate 

 flowers shorter. Ovary 2-celled, sessile; ovules 2 or 3 in each cavity; style very 

 short, simple, the stigmas glabrous. Fruit a small, globose berry-like drupe, 

 the exocarp slightly fleshy. Seed exarillate. [Greek, to expel, the genus having 

 been taken from Melicocc.a.] The genus is probably monotypic. Type species: 

 Exothea oblongifolia Macf. 



1. Exothea paniculata (Juss.) Eadlk.; Durand Index Gen. Phan. 81. 1S88. 



Melicocca paniculata Juss. Mem. Mus. Paris 3: 187. 1817. 

 Hypelate paniculata Camb. Mem. Mus. Paris 18: 32. 1829. 

 Exothea ollongifolia Macf. Fl. Jam. 1: 232. 1837. 



A tree, attaining a maximum height of about 20 m., with a trunk up to 5 

 dm. thick, the thin, reddish brown bark scaly. Leaves short-petioled ; leaflets 



2, 4, or 6 (rarely 1 or 3), oblong to elliptic-obovate, 5-13 cm. long, glabrous or 

 nearly so, entire, dark green and shining above, pale green beneath, acute, 

 obtuse or emarginate at the apex, narrowed to the nearly sessile base; panicles 

 terminal and axillary, pubescent; sepals ovate, about 3 mm. long; petals oblong- 

 ovate, about as long as the sepals; ovary pubescent; drupes 10-13 mm. in 

 diameter, purple, the juicy pulp orange. 



Coppices and scrub-lands, Abaco, Great Bahama, Goat Cay, Andros, Eleuthera, 

 Cat Island and Watling's Island : Florida ; Cuba ; Jamaica ; Hispaniola ; Porto 

 Rico. BUTTER BOUGH. 



7. HYPELATE P. Br.; Sw. Prodr. 61. 1788. 



A tree or shrub, with alternate 3-foliolate petioled leaves, and small, 

 white or greenish white, panicled, monoecious or polygamo-dioecious flowers. 

 Sepals 5, imbricated. Petals 5, unappendaged, sessile. Stamens 8-10 in the 

 staminate flowers, wanting or imperfect in the pistillate; filaments glabrous. 

 Pistillate flowers with a 3-celled, sessile ovary, the style short, the stigmas 

 capitate; ovules 2 in each cavity, superimposed. Fruit a small drupe, with 

 thin flesh. [Greek name for Ruscus, the Butcher 's Broom.] A monotypic genus. 



1. Hypelate trifoliata Sw. Prodr. 61. 1788. 



A tree, sometimes 13 m. high with a trunk up to 5 dm. in diameter, usually 

 smaller, sometimes shrubby, the thin gray bark smooth or nearly so. Petioles 

 1-5 cm. long; leaflets obovate or spatulate, firm in texture, 2-5 cm. long, entire, 

 glabrous, shining above, rather dull beneath, finely veined, the apex obtuse, 



