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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



cate branches, the ultimate divisions 3-flowered; petals 0. Fruit short-oblong or nearly 

 globose, dark reddish brown and puberulous, with thin dry flesh; seeds short-oblong, 

 rounded at the ends. 



A tree, in Florida 20-25 high, with a trunk 3'-4' in diameter, small branches forming 

 a narrow head, and slender branchlets at first wing-angled between the nodes and coated 

 with short rufous silky tomentum, becoming in their second or third year terete, thickened 

 at the nodes, light gray tinged with red and covered with small thin scales. Bark of the 

 trunk about f ' thick, with a generally smooth light gray or almost white surface occasion- 

 ally separating into irregular plate-like scales. Wood very heavy, hard, close-grained, 

 brown tinged with red, with lighter colored sapwood of 30-40 layers of annual growth. 



Distribution. Florida, shores of Lake Worth, in the neighborhood of Bay Biscayne, 

 Dade County, and on Big Pine Key, Elliott's Key, Key Largo and Key West; on the Ba- 

 hama Islands, on many of the Antilles and in southern Mexico. 



2. Calyptranthes Zuzygium Sw. 



Leaves elliptic, abruptly or gradually narrowed into a blunt point or obtuse at apex, 

 cuneate at base, entire, covered with minute pellucid dots, glabrous, dark yellow-green 



and lustrous on the upper surface, paler on the lower surface, 1|'-2|' long and f'-lf 

 wide, with a broad low midrib and slender primary veins arcuate and connected within the 

 slightly revolute somewhat undulate margins; petioles deeply grooved, $'-' in length. 

 Flowers on slender pedicels * '---' long, in axillary 1-3-branched few-flowered axillary 

 cymes f ' long and %' wide, on slender peduncles I'-l \' in length, the ultimate divisions of 

 the inflorescence 1-3-flowered; petals wanting; style rather longer than the stamens. 

 Fruit about \ r in diameter. 



A tree, in Florida sometimes 40 high, with a tall trunk 4' or 5' in diameter, covered with 

 smooth pale gray bark, small branches and slender terete ascending ashy gray branchlets. 



Distribution. Florida, Paradise and Long Keys in the Everglades, Dade County; on 

 the Bahama Islands and in Cuba, Jamaica and Hayti. 



2. EUGENIA L. 



Trees or shrubs, with hard durable wood and scaly bark. Flowers often large and con- 

 spicuous, on short bibracteolate pedicels, in axillary racemes or fascicles or dichotomously 

 branched cymes, with minute caducous bracts and bractlets; calyx campanulate, scarcely 



