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segments lanceolate, acute or acuminate; petals obovate, 1-3 cm. long; capsules 

 6-10 mm. long, much shorter than the bractlets, 3-valved above. 



Rocky plains and white-lands, Abaco and Great Bahama to Andros, the Caicos 

 Islands, Grand Turk and Inagua : Bermuda ; Florida ; the West Indies ; Mexico to 

 tropical South America. Consists of numerous races, differing in leaf-form, pubes- 

 cence and size of flowers. BUTTERCUPS. YELLOW ALDER. LARGE-LEAVED TURNERA. 



2. Turnera diffusa Willd. ; Schultes, Syst. 6 : 679. 1820. 

 Triads microphylla Griseb. Fl. Br. W. I. 297. 1860. 



A pubescent, much-branched shrub, 2 dm. to 1.3 m. high, the branches 

 slender, spreading. Leaves small, 5-20 mm. long, spatulate or oblanceolate, 

 firm in texture, coarsely few-toothed, nearly sessile, deeply impressed-veined 

 and glabrous above, pubescent beneath, mostly obtuse at the apex, attenuate 

 to the base, the margin revolute; peduncles very short; calyx 5-toothed; petals 

 spatulate, 3-8 mm. long, much longer than the calyx-teeth; stamens very short; 

 capsule subglobose, about 1.5 mm. in diameter, 3-valved to the base. 



Rocky plains and white-lands, Whale Cay, Joulter's Cay, New Providence, Eleu- 

 thera, Cat Island, Rum Cay, Great Guana Cay, Great Exuma, Crooked Island, Ack- 

 lin's and Inagua : Cuba to Virgin Gorda and St. Croix. SMALL-LEAVED TURNERA. 



Family 6. FLACOURTIACEAE Lindl. 

 FLACOURTIA FAMILY. > 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate simple, usually dentate leaves, the 

 stipules minute or wanting, the small regular flowers usually clustered, 

 perfect, dioecious or polygamous. Calyx 3-7-lobed or of 3-7 distinct 

 sepals. Petals as many as the calyx-lobes or sepals, or rarely more, or 

 wanting. Stamens few or numerous, in some genera alternating with 

 staminodia; filaments distinct or connate; anthers 2-celled. Ovary su- 

 perior, 1-celled ; ovules few or numerous, on parietal placentae. Fruit cap- 

 sular or baccate. About 70 genera, including over 500 species, of tropical 

 regions. 



Petals present. 1. Banara. 

 Petals none. 



Stamens hypogynous ; leaves not punctate. 2. Myroxylon. 

 Stamens perigynous ; leaves mostly punctate. 



Style none : stamens numerous. 3. Zuelania. 



Style present ; stamens 6-15. 4. Casearia. 



1. BANARA Aubl. PI. Guian. 1: 547. 1775. 



Shrubs or trees with alternate petioled, somewhat inequilateral, usually 

 glandular-dentate and punctate leaves, small stipules, and small perfect 

 flowers in racemes, corymbs or panicles. Calyx persistent, 3-5-lobed, the lobes 

 valvate. Petals as many as the calyx-lobes and similar to them, persistent, 

 imbricated. Stamens many, with filiform filaments; staminodia none. Ovary 

 superior, 1-celled or by intrusion of the placentae nearly several-celled; ovules 

 many; style slender; stigma capitate. Fruit a fleshy or leathery, indehiscent, 

 many-seeded berry. Seeds striate, the endosperm fleshy. [Guiana name.] 

 About 15 species, natives of tropical America. Type species: Banara guian- 

 ensis Aubl. 



