284 FLACOUBTIACEAE. 



1. Banara reticulata Griseb. Cat. PL Cub. 8. 1866. 



A glabrous shrub, 1-3 m. high or a small tree up to about 8 m. high, the 

 slender twigs terete. Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, coriaceous, 2.5-7 cm. 

 long, somewhat inequilateral, low-serrate with blunt teeth, rounded, obtuse or 

 some of them acute at the apex, mostly rounded or subcordate at the base, 

 densely and strongly reticulate-veined, shining above, the petioles 4-8 mm. 

 long; corymbs several-many-flowered, 3-6 cm. broad; pedicels 5-10 mm. long, 

 thickened in fruit; calyx about 5 mm. long, its segments broadly ovate, rounded, 

 puberulent and ciliolate; petals yellowish, about as long as the calyx; fruit 

 ovoid, red, about 8 mm. long, tipped by the style. 



Rocky pine-lands, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera and Great Exuma : Cuba. 

 BANARA. Catesby, 2: pi. 42. 



2. MYROXYLON Forst. Char. Gen. 126. 1776. 



Shrubs or trees, usually spiny, with usually toothed, sometimes spinulose- 

 dentate leaves and small, dioecious or polygamous flowers, fascicled or short- 

 racemose in the axils. Sepals 4 or 5, imbricated. Petals wanting. Stamens 

 several or numerous, borne on a glandular disk, the anthers versatile. Ovary 

 with 2-6 parietal placentae; ovules few or several; style simple or cleft, some- 

 times very short ; stigmas dilated, rarely lobed. Fruit a small, 2-several-seeded 

 berry, the seeds obovoid. [Greek, balsam wood.] About 30 species, tropical 

 and subtropical in distribution. Type species: Myroxylon suaveolens Forst. 



Leaves shining above ; fruit globose. 1. M . ilicifoUum. 



Leaves dull above ; fruit obovoid-oblong. 2. M . ~bahamense. 



1, Myroxylon ilicifolium (Northrop) Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 141. 



1906. 



Xylosma ilicifolia Northrop, Mem. Torr. Club 12: 51. 1902. 



A shrub, 3 m. high or less, much branched, the twigs slender, the stem and 

 branches usually armed with slender, often branched spines. Leaves oval to 

 obovate or oblanceolate, coriaceous, short-petioled, '2-3 cm. long, entire or with 

 1-3 spinulose-tipped teeth, the apex acute and spinulose, the base narrowed, 

 the upper surface strongly shining, the lateral venation obscure; fascicles few- 

 flowered; pedicels of staminate flowers slender, 2-4 mm. long; sepals yellow or 

 greenish, eiliate, about 1 mm. long; pedicels of pistillate flowers 1-2 mm. long; 

 berry bluish-black, globose, about 5 mm. in diameter. 



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Coppices, and pine-lands, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera, Cat Island. 

 Endemic. HOLLY-LEAVED MYROXYLON. Recorded by Dolley as Xylosma nitidum A. 

 Gray and as X. buxifolium; and by Hitchcock as M. T)uxifoUum pauciflorum. 



2. Myroxylon bahamense Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 141. 1906. 



An intricately branched shrub or small tree 4 m. high or less, the trunk 

 and larger limbs densely armed with branched spines 5 cm. long or less. Wood 

 yellowish-white, very hard and dense; twigs armed with subulate spines 1.5 cm. 

 long or less; leaves ovate or oblong to oblanceolate, coriaceous, 6-30 mm. long, 

 scarcely shining above, dull and paler green beneath than above, entire or with 

 1 to 4 blunt teeth, the apex acute, the base rounded, or narrowed, the petiole 

 about 1 mm. long; fruit obovoid-oblong, obtuse, 6 mm. long, 3 mm. in diameter. 



Scrub-lands and coppices, Abaco, Great Bahama, New Providence. Endemic. 

 BAHAMA MYROXYLON. 



