316 THEOPHRASTACEAE. 



5-12 cm. long; pedicels short, slender; calyx 2 mm. long, its 5 segments ovate, 

 acute, unsymmetrical, ciliate; corolla rotate, its 5 oblong or obovate segments 

 reflexed, 3-4 mm. long, white, with purplish lines and dots; anthers orange; 

 fruit globose, black, shining, 7-9 mm. in diameter, tipped by the filiform style. 



Coppices and scrub-lands, Abaco, Great Bahama, New Providence and Eleu- 

 thera : 'Florida ; Cuba ; Mexico. MARLBERRY. DOG-BERRY. 



2. Icacorea guadalupensis (Duchass.) Britton; Wilson, Bull. N. Y. Bot Gard 

 8: 401. 1917. 



Ardisia guadalupensis Duchass; Griseb. Kar. 89. 1857. 



A glabrous shrub 1-3 m. high, or a tree up to 15 m. high, the stout twigs 

 light grey. Leaves elliptic to elliptic-obovate, coriaceous, 10-15 cm. long, 

 obtuse or acutish at the apex, narrowed or cuneate at the base, paler green 

 beneath than above, delicately veined, the stout petioles 7-12 mm. long; 

 panicles terminal, densely many-flowered, 10-15 cm. long; pedicels 2-4 mm. 

 long, rather stout; calyx about 2 mm. long, its 5 segments oblong, obtuse, 

 punctate; corolla white, rotate, its 5 segments ovate or ovate-elliptic, obtuse, 

 symmetrical, more or less punctate or lineolate; fruit subglobose or depressed- 

 globose, black when mature, 6-8 mm. in diameter, tipped by the short style. 



Coppices, North Caicos : Porto Rico to Virgin Gorda and Santa Lucia. GUADE- 

 LOUPE MARLBERRY. 



2. RAPANEA Aubl. PI. Guian. 1: 121. 1775. 



Shrubs or small trees, with alternate coriaceous leaves, and small bracted 

 polygamo-dioecious flowers in lateral or axillary fascicles. Calyx mostly 4-5- 

 cleft, persistent. 'Corolla 4-5 -parted, or rarely of 4 or 5 separate petals, the 

 segments spreading or recurved. Stamens borne on the bases of the corolla- 

 segments; filaments short; anthers obtuse. Ovary globose or ovoid; style 

 short or slender; stigma various; ovules few or many. Fruit a globose, nearly 

 dry, small 1-seeded berry. [Guiana name.] Over 80 species, mostly of trop- 

 ical regions, the following typical. 



1. Rapanea guian&isis Aubl. PI. Guian. 1: 121. 1775. 



A shrub or small tree up to 6 m. high, the trunk sometimes 1.5 dm. in 

 diameter, the foliage glabrous, the bark smooth and gray. Leaves mostly 

 clustered near the ends of the rather slender twigs, short-petioled, obovate or 

 oblong, 4-10 cm. long, obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base, bright green 

 and somewhat shining above, dull green beneath, the midvein prominent, the 

 lateral veins faint; flowers green, about 4 mm. broad, nearly sessile on the 

 twigs below the leaves; sepals ovate, about 1.5 mm. long; corolla-lobes oblong, 

 glandular-ciliate, 23 times as long as the sepals, somewhat unequal; fruit 

 globose, black when mature, about 4 mm. in diameter. 



Coppices, pine-lands and scrub-lands, Abaco, Great Bahama, Andros, New Provi- 

 dence, Cat Island, Crooked Island and Mariguana : Florida ; Cuba to Porto Rico 

 and to Trinidad ; Jamaica ; northern South America. Recorded by Dolley as 

 Hyrsine laeta DC. MYRSINE. 



Family 2. THEOPHRASTACEAE D. Don. 

 THEOPHRASTA FAMILY. 



Trees or shrubs, with evergreen coriaceous estipulate leaves, and regu- 

 lar, perfect or polygamo-dioecious flowers in axillary or terminal clusters or 

 solitary. Calyx inferior, mostly 5-parted, the segments obtuse, imbricated. 



