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and often more or less twisted or contorted. Bark of the trunk rarely more than |' thick, 

 light brown tinged with red, and broken into small thick square scales. Wood very heavy, 



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exceedingly hard, strong, close-grained, dark brown shaded with red, with thick lighter 

 colored sapwood of 15-20 layers of annual growth; sometimes used for fuel. 



Distribution. Florida, Cape Canaveral to the southern keys, and on the west coast 

 from the banks of the Caloosahatchee River to Cape Sable; one of the commonest plants 

 on the keys, forming on coral rock a large part of the shrubby second growth now occupying 

 ground from which the original forest has been removed; on the Bahama Islands and on 

 several of the Antilles. 



2. Eugenia axillaris Willd. Stopper. White Stopper. 



Leaves ovate, gradually or abruptly narrowed at apex into a short wide point, rounded 

 at the narrowed base, thick and coriaceous, dark green on the upper surface, paler and 



Fig. 693 



covered with minute black dots on the lower surface, lf-2^' long and \ f wide, with a 

 broad midrib deeply impressed above; petioles stout, slightly winged, about %' in length. 



