804 TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



forked near the apex, with a flower in the fork and 3 at the end of each branch, or 

 the lateral flowers of these clusters replaced by branches producing 3 flowers at 

 their apex, the bractlets subtending the branches of the peduncle, and the lateral 

 flowers of the ultimate divisions of the inflorescence linear-lanceolate, acute, coated 



with hairs, about T y long, deciduous; calyx-lobes nearly triangular, acute, coated 

 on the outer surface with long pale hairs, and half as long as the erect corolla 

 canescent externally, with rounded lobes. Fruit ripening in November, dark purple, 

 pilose, ' in diameter, crowned with the remnants of the persistent calyx-tube, the 

 flesh sweet and mealy; stone obscurely ridged and usually 2-4-seeded; seeds ob- 

 long-lanceolate, compressed, nearly straight, with a thin pale coat. 



A tree, in Florida occasionally 18-20 high, with an irregularly buttressed or 

 lobed trunk 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 ele- 

 vated orbicular leaf-scars. Winter-buds acuminate, light brown, coated with pale 

 pubescence, and about ^' long. Bark of the trunk about y^' thick, with a smooth 

 dark brown surface covered with large irregularly shaped pale blotches and numer- 

 ous small white spots. Wood heavy, hard, very close-grained, light brown tinged 

 with red, witli thin sapwood of 6-10 layers of annual growth. 



Distribution. Coast of the southern keys, Florida; also on the Bahama Islands 

 and Jamaica. 



LXI. CAPRIFOLIACEJE. 



Trees or shrubs, with watery juice, opposite petiolate leaves involute in 

 the bud, usually without stipules, scaly buds, and fibrous roots. Flowers reg- 

 ular, perfect, articulated with the pedicels in terminal compound cymes ; calyx- 

 tube adnate to the ovary, 5-toothed ; corolla epigyrious, 5-lobed, the lobes im- 

 bricated in the bud ; stamens 5, inserted on the tube of the corolla, as many 

 as and alternate with its lobes ; filaments slender, free ; anthers oblong, introrse, 

 2-celled, the cells opening longitudinally ; disk (in the arborescent genera of 

 the United States) ; ovary inferior or partly superior, 3-5 or 1-celled ; style 

 short, capitate, 3-5-lobed and stigmatic at the apex ; ovule solitary, suspended 



