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5'-6' in diameter, the deep depressions between the lobes continuous or often interrupted, 

 small upright branches, and thin terete branchlets coated when they first appear with long 

 pale or rufous hairs and light red-brown or ashy gray and conspicuously marked by pale 

 lenticels, and in their second year by large elevated orbicular leaf-scars. Winter-buds 

 acuminate, light brown, coated with pale pubescence, and about |' long. Bark of the trunk 

 about yV thick, with a smooth dark brown surface covered with large irregularly shaped 

 pale blotches and numerous small white spots. Wood heavy, hard, very close-grained, 

 light brown tinged with red, with thin sapwood of 6-10 layers of annual growth. 

 Distribution. Florida, coast of the southern keys; on the Bahama Islands and in Ja- 



2. Guettarda scabra Lam. 



Leaves oval, oblong or ovate, acuminate or rounded and apiculate at apex, gradually 

 narrowed or broad at the rounded or subcordate base, entire, coriaceous, dark green, his- 

 pidulose-papillose and scabrate on the upper surface, pale and soft-pubescent on the lower 

 surface, 2'-5' long and 1 j'-Sj' wide, with thickened slightly revolute margins, a stout mid- 

 rib, usually 8-11 pairs of prominent primary veins and conspicuous reticulate veinlets; 



Fig. 775 



petioles stout, rusty-pubescent, |'-' in length; stipules concave at base, gradually nar- 

 rowed above into a long slender point, pubescent, as long as the petioles. Flowers pro- 

 duced irregularly during the winter and early spring, sessile or short-pedicellate in the axils 

 of acute bracts, in pedunculate cymes on slender rusty-pubescent peduncles \\'-%! in 

 length; calyx short-oblong, densely pubescent on the outer surface; corolla often 1' in 

 length, the slender tube retrorsely silky-villose on the outer surface, the lobes 5-7, usually 

 5, oblong-obtuse; filaments free, short; anthers oblong-linear, included, style shorter than 

 the tube of the corolla; stigma capitate. Fruit ripening in the autumn, subglobose, pubes- 

 cent, \' in diameter, and crowned by the persistent tube of the calyx; flesh thin and dry; 

 stone slightly angled thick-walled, 4-9-seeded. 



A tree, in Florida sometimes 20-25 high, with a tall trunk 2'-2' in diameter, small 

 ascending branches forming an open irregular head, and stout or slender branchlets densely 

 covered during their first season with rufous pubescence, and light reddish brow r n, slightly 

 pubescent and marked by conspicuous leaf-scars in their second year; often a shrub. 



Distribution. Florida, near Miami and on the Everglade Keys, Dade County, and on 

 the southern keys; on the Bahama Islands and on several of the Antilles. 



