256 EHAMNACEAE. 



1. Reynosia septentrionalis Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 356. 1899. 



Eeynosia latifolia iChapm. Fl. S. U. S., ed. '2, 612. 1883. Not Griseb. 1866. 



Usually a shrub, sometimes a tree up to 9 m. high, with a trunk diameter 

 of 2 dm., the bark reddish-brown, splitting into thin plates, the wood dense and 

 heavy. Leaves opposite, elliptic to oval or obovate, 2-4 cm. long, coriaceous, 

 glabrous, rounded or emarginate at the apex, narrowed at the base, finely 

 reticulate-veined, revolute-margined, the petioles short; flowers yellowish green, 

 about 5 mm. wide in small axillary umbels; pedicels 4-5 mm. long; calyx-lobes 

 ovate, acute; drupe ovoid, dark purple, 11.5 cm. long, tipped with the base of 

 the style, the thin pulp edible, the stone hard. 



Scrub-lands and coppices, throughout the archipelago from Great Sturrup Cay, 

 the Biminis and Eleuthera, to Grand Turk, Inagua and Cay Sal : Florida. Recorded 

 by Hitchcock as Rhamnidium revolutum C. Wright. COMMON REYNOSIA. 



2. Reynosia Northropiana Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 315. 1902. 



A shrub, 1-2 m. high, the slender young twigs puberulent, soon becoming 

 glabrous. Stipules triangular, connate, lanceolate, 1-2 mm. long; leaves oppo- 

 site, subcoriaceous, oblong, elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, 3-8 cm. long, 1-2.5 

 cm. wide, rounded or emarginate at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the base, 

 obsoletely crenate or entire, dark green above, pale green beneath, finely reticu- 

 late-veined on both sides, the petioles 3-7 mm. long: cymes short-peduncled ; 

 few-several-flowered; calyx about 2.5 mm. long, its 5 lobes triangular-ovate, 

 acute; petals half -orbicular, emarginate, nearly 1 mm. long; drupe ellipsoid, 

 obtuse, 6-8 mm. long. 



Thickets and coppices, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera, Cat Island and 

 Great Exuma. Endemic. BAHAMA REYNOSIA. 



2. KRUGIODENDRON Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 313. 1902. 



An unarmed evergreen tree or shrub, with entire short-petioled leaves, and 

 small perfect flowers subumbellate in the axils. Calyx mostly 5-parted, the 

 lobes much longer than the tube. Petals wanting. Stamens as many as the 

 calyx -lobes; filaments subulate; anthers obtuse. Disc annular, crenate. Ovary 

 short-conic; style short; stigmas 2, small; ovules 2. Drupe small, ovoid, the pit 

 thin-walled. Testa of the seed adherent to the endocarp; cotyledons semi- 

 globose, fleshy; endosperm none. [Greek, Krug's tree, in honor of Leopold 

 Krug, a student of the West Indian flora.] A monotypic genus. 



1. Krugiodendron ferreum (Vahl) Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 314. 1902. 

 Ehamnus ferreus Vahl in West, St. Croix 276. 1793. 

 Ceanothus ferreus DO. Prodr. 2: 30. 1825. 

 Scutia ferrea Brongn. Ann. Sci. Nat. I. 10: 363. 1827. 

 Condalia ferrea Griseb. Fl. Br. W. I. lO'O. 1859. 

 Bhamnidium ferreum Sargent, G'ard. & Flor. 4: 16. 18'91. 



A tree, attaining a maximum height of about 10 m v with a trunk diameter 

 up to 5 dm., usually much smaller, often shrubby, the bark ridged, the branches 

 spreading, the young twigs tomentulose. Leaves mostly opposite, ovate to oval, 

 rather thin, 25 cm. long, obtuse or emarginate at the apex, rounded or nar- 

 rowed at the base, bright green above, dull beneath, nearly glabrous when 

 mature, the petioles 3-6 mm. long; flowers yellow-green, about 4 mm. wide, in 

 axillary clusters much shorter than the leaves; calyx-lobes triangular-ovate; 

 stamens a little shorter than the calyx; drupes globose or ovoid, black, 58 mm. 

 long, the stone bony. 



Coastal scrub-lands and thickets, Lignum Vitae and Great Harbor Cays, South 

 Cat Cay, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera, Watling's, Great Guana Cay, Great 

 Exuma, Long Island, Fortune, Crooked, Acklin's and Inagua : Florida ; Cuba to 

 Porto Rico, Anegada and St. Vincent ; Jamaica ; Bonaire. 



