MYRTACE^: 697 



coming black at maturity; flesh thin and dry; seeds almost globose, nearly^' iu 

 diameter, with a thick pale chestnut-brown lustrous coat and olive-green cotyledons. 



A tree, 20-25 high, with a trunk usually a foot in diameter, small branches, 

 and slender terete branchlets at first light purple and covered with a glaucous bloom, 

 becoming ashy gray or almost white. Bark of the trunk about T y thick, with a 

 smooth light gray surface slightly tinged with red. Wood heavy, hard, close- 

 grained, light brown, with hardly distinguishable sapwood. 



Distribution. Key West and Umbrella Key, Florida; on the Bahamas and on 

 many of the Antilles. 



4. Eugenia confusa, DC. Red Stopper. 



(Eugenia Garberi, Silva N. Am. v. 49.) 



Leaves ovate-oblong, abruptly or gradually contracted into long narrow points 

 rounded or acute at the apex, wedge-shaped or occasionally rounded at the base, 

 thin and light red when they unfold, and at maturity dark green and very lustrous 

 on the upper, paler and marked with minute black dots on the lower surface, l'-2' 



long, ^'-f' wide, with thick orange-colored midribs barely impressed above and 

 prominent reticulate veinlets; their petioles stout, about \ r long. Flowers barely \' 

 in diameter, appearing in September on slender pedicels \'-\' 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 broadly 

 ovate rounded white petals. Fruit ripening in March and April, subglobose to obo- 

 vate, bright scarlet, \'-$' long, glandular-roughened, usually solitary and 1-seeded, 

 with thin dry flesh; seeds nearly globose, about |' in diameter, with a thin crusta- 

 ceous 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. Rich hummocks near the shores of Bay Biscayne, and on Old 

 Rhodes and Elliott's Keys, Florida; on the Bahamas and on several of the Antilles. 



