304 MYETACEAE. 



racemes axillary or lateral, few-flowered; pedicels pubescent, very short; calyx 

 4-lobed, the lobes obtuse; petals oblong, 2-3 mm. long; fruits oval to sub- 

 globose, black, 5-7 mm. in diameter. 



Scrub-lands and coppices, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Great 

 Bahama to Caicos Islands, Inagua and the Anguilla Isles : Florida ; Cuba to St. 

 Thomas and St. Croix ; Jamaica. Referred by Dolley to E. lateriflora Griseb. SPAN- 

 ISH STOPPER. BLACK WATTLE. 



3. Eugenia confusa DC. Prodr. 3: 279. 1828. 



Eugenia filiformis Macf. Fl. Jam. 2: 116. 1850. 



A tree, attaining a maximum height of about 18 m., with a trunk up 

 to 5 dm. in diameter, usually much smaller, the bark scaly, the slender twigs 

 glabrous. Leaves ovate to lanceolate, coriaceous, glabrous, 3-6 em. long, long- 

 acuminate at the apex, narrowed or obtuse at the base, dark green and shin- 

 ing above, dull green beneath, pinnately many-veined, the slender petioles 

 510 mm. long; flowers umbellate or solitary in the axils, on filiform pedicels 

 2-3 times as long as the petioles; .calyx-lobes broadly ovate, 1.52 mm. long; 

 petals ovate, about twice as long as the calyx-lobes; fruit subglobose, orange 

 to scarlet, 5-6 mm. in diameter. 



Coppices and scrub-lands, Great Bahama, Lignum Vitae Cay, Andros, New 

 Providence, Great Guana Cay, Eleutbera, Watling's and Crooked Islands : Florida ; 

 Cuba ; Porto Rico to Dominica ; Jamaica. The record of E. pseudopsidium by 

 Schoepf may apply to this species. IRONWOOD. 



4. Eugenia rhombea (Berg) Krug & Urban, Bot. Jahrb. 19: 644. 1895. 



Eugenia foetida rliom'bea Berg, Linnaea 27: 212. 1856. 



A small tree, sometimes 8 m. high with a trunk up to 3 dm. in diameter, 

 the twigs slender, the smooth bark gray, the foliage glabrous. Leaves ovate 

 to elliptic or rhombic-ovate, rather thin, inconspicuously veined, 3-6 cm. long, 

 bluntly acuminate or acute at the apex, obtuse or narrowed at the base, short- 

 petioled; flowers in sessile axillary umbel-like clusters, often appearing on 

 twigs from which the leaves have fallen, the slender glabrous pedicels 8-15 

 mm. long; calyx-tube shorter than the 4 rounded lobes; petals ovate, about 

 5 mm. long, about twice as long as the calyx-lobes; fruit depressed-globose, 

 orange, red or nearly black, 0.8-1.5 cm. in diameter. 



Scrub-lands, Cave Cay, Long Island, Great Ragged Island, Acklin's, Inagua and 

 the Anguilla Isles : Florida ; Cuba to Guadeloupe ; Jamaica. RED STOPPER. 



5. Eugenia unifldra L. Sp. PI. 470. 1753. 



A shrub or small tree up to 5 m. high, with slender branches. Leaves 

 ovate to ovate-lanceolate, dark green and shining above, paler beneath, bluntly 

 acute or acuminate at the apex, rounded at the base, dotted, thin in texture, 

 2.5-6 cm. long; pedicels solitary or few together, very slender, glabrous, 

 about 2.5 cm. long, bracted at the base and 2-bracteolate near the summit; 

 calyx-lobes linear-oblong, obtusish; petals about twice as long as the calyx- 

 lobes; fruit subglobose, longitudinally furrowed, S'-IO' mm. in diameter, bright 

 red, spicy, edible. 



Apparently only spontaneous after cultivation, though recorded as indigenous 

 by Dolley, and admitted into the Bahamas by Grisebach. New Providence : Ber- 

 muda ; Cuba to Trinidad and South America ; Jamaica ; Cayman Islands ; introduced 

 into the Old World tropics. Native of South America. SURINAM CHERRY. 



6. Eugenia androsiana Urban, Kepert. 13: 467. 1915. 



A glabrous shrub, about 1 m. high, diffusely branched, the twigs very 

 slender. Leaves linear or linear-oblong, 1-2 cm. long, 1.5-3 mm. wide, acute 



