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angular, acute; stamens exserted; drupe ovoid-conic, about 8 mm. long, tomen- 

 tulose, slightly curved, the persistent calyx at length deciduous. 



Thickets and scrub-lands, Andros, New Providence, North and South Caicos and 

 Inagua : Florida ; West Indies ; Panama. Referred to by Hitchcock as Buceras 

 angustifolia (DC.) Hitchcock. Erroneously called OAK. BLACK OLIVE. 



2. Bucida spinosa (Northrop) Jennings, Ann. Cam. Mus. 11: 201. 1917. 

 Terminalia spinosa Northrop, Mem. Torr. Club 12: 54. 1902. 



A shrub or flat-topped tree, 4-8 m. high, with spreading branches, the 

 trunk 1.5-2 dm. in diameter, the twigs divaricate, spiny. Leaves fascicled, 

 subsessile, oblanceolate to spatulate, 1-2.5 cm. long, 46 mm. wide, firm in 

 texture, glabrous, entire, obtuse or retuse at the apex, narrowed at the base; 

 spines slender, 3-7 mm. long, mostly in 3 's at the ends of the twigs; flowers 

 few, greenish, in axillary short peduncled spikes; calyx campanulate, about 

 3 mm. long, subtruncate, villous within; stamens 8 or 9, about 3 mm. long; 

 drupe ovoid, 3-4 mm. long, the calyx rather early deciduous. 



Coastal and savanna coppices and scrub-lands, Great Bahama and Andros : 

 Cuba. SPINY BLACK OLIVE. BRIER-TREE. PRICKLY-TREE. 



2. LAGUNCULARIA Gaertn. f. Fr. & Sem. 3: 209. 1805. 



A halophytic tree or shrub, with opposite entire leaves, the petioles 2- 

 glandular, and small greenish flowers in clustered spikes. Flowers polyga- 

 mous or perfect. Calyx-tube terete, 5-lobed. Petals 5, minute. Stamens 10, 

 short, the filaments subulate, the anthers cordate. Ovary with a scalloped 

 epigynous disk; style short, glabrous; stigma somewhat 2-lobed; ovules 2 in 

 each cavity. Drupes coriaceous, ribbed or angled. Seed solitary, germinat- 

 ing within the drupe. [Latin, from the fancied resemblance of the drupe to 

 a flask.] A monotypic genus. 



1. Laguncularia racemosa (L.) Gaertn. f. Fr. & Sem. 3: 209. 1805. 

 Conocarpus racemosa L. Syst. ed. 10, 930. 1759. 



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

 8 dm. in diameter, usually much smaller, and often shrubby, the reddish brown, 

 glabrous twigs thickened at the nodes. Leaves oblong, oval or obovate, 27 

 cm. long, emarginate or rounded at the apex, rounded, narrowed or subcordate 

 at the base, the stout petioles 0.5-2 cm. long; spikes 3-6 cm. long, few- 

 several-flowered; calyx tomentulose, its lobes rounded; petals 5, orbicular, not 

 longer than the calyx; drupes oblong to obovoid, reddish, 1.5-2 cm. long, 

 constricted below the persistent calyx-lobes. 



Borders of mangrove mud and in sea-shallows, Great Bahama, Great Sturrup 

 Cay, Little Harbor Cay, Andros, New Providence, Ship Channel Cay, Great Guana 

 Cay, Great Exuma, Eleuthera, Cat Island, Fortune Island, Grand Turk, and the 

 Anguilla Isles : Florida ; West Indies ; tropic continental American coasts. WHITE 

 MANGROVE. BASTARD BUTTONWOOD. GREEN TURTLE BODGH. 



3. TERMINALIA L. Mant. 1: 21, 128. 1767. 



Trees or shrubs, with broad alternate entire leaves, usually clusteed at 

 the ends of the banches, and small spicate flowers. Calyx-tube terete, rib- 

 less, the lobes deciduous. Corolla none. -Stamens 10 to 20, exserted, the fila- 

 ments slender, the anthers cordate. Fruit a drupe. [Latin, referring to the 

 clustered leaves at the ends of the branches.] About 100 species, mostly of 

 the Old World tropics. Type species: Terminalia Catappa L. 



