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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



face slightly tinged with red. Wood heavy, hard, close-grained, light brown, with hardly 

 distinguishable sapwood. 



Distribution. Florida, Key West and Umbrella Key; on the Bahama Islands and on 

 many of the Antilles. 



4. Eugenia confusa DC. Red Stopper. 



Leaves oblong-ovate, abruptly or gradually contracted into a long narrow point rounded 

 or acute at apex, cuneate or occasionally rounded at base, thin and light red when they 

 unfold, and at maturity dark green and very lustrous on the upper surface, paler and 

 marked with minute black dots on the lower surface, l^'-2' long and 5 ' f ' wide, with a thick 

 orange-colored midrib barely impressed above and prominent reticulate veinlets; petioles 

 stout, about \ f in length. Flowers barely $' in diameter, appearing in September on slen- 

 der pedicels i'-f long and furnished near the apex with 2 minute acute bractlets, in many- 

 flowered axillary clusters; calyx glandular-punctate, with 4 ovate acute lobes much shorter 

 than the 4 broad-ovate rounded white petals. Fruit ripening in March and April, sub- 

 globose to obovoid, bright scarlet, \'-\' long, glandular-roughened, usually solitary and 



Fig. 695 



1-seeded, with thin dry flesh; seed nearly globose, about \ r in diameter, with a thin crus- 

 taceous light brown lustrous coat and an olive-green embryo. 



A tree, 50-60 high, with a straight trunk 18'-20' in diameter, stout upright branches 

 forming a narrow compact head, and slender terete ashy gray branchlets. Bark of the 

 trunk about |' thick, bright cinnamon-red, separating freely into small thin scales. Wood 

 very heavy, exceedingly hard, strong, close-grained, bright red-brown, with thick dark- 

 colored sapwood of 50-60 layers of annual growth. 



Distribution. Florida, rich hummocks near the shores of Bay Biscay ne, Dade County, 

 and on Old Rhodes and Elliotts Keys; on the Bahama Islands and on several of the 

 Antilles. 



5. Eugenia dicrana Berg. Naked Wood. 

 Anamomis dichotoma Sarg. 



Leaves ovate or obovate, acute or rounded and occasionally emarginate at apex, cuneate 

 at base, chartaceous when they unfold, becoming subcoriaceous, glabrous, covered with 

 minute black dots, l'-lj' long and \'-\' wide, with a stout midrib; petioles stout, en- 

 larged at base, coated at first with silky hairs, finally glabrous. Flowers appearing 

 in Florida in May, j' in diameter, in cymes produced near the end of the branches, in the 

 axils of leaves of the year, on slender peduncles coated with pale silky hairs, sometimes 1- 



