OLACACEAE. Ill 



Family 2. OLACACEAE Lindl. 



OtiAx Family. 



Shrubs, trees or woody vines, mostly with alternate and entire, pinnately 

 veined, estipulate leaves, and regular perfect or polygamous flowers in 

 axillary clusters. Calyx 4^6-toothed or 4—6-parted. Corolla 4^6-lobed or 

 of 4r-6 distinct petals. Disk various. Stamens 4r-12; filaments distinct or 

 rarely monadelphous ; anthers 2-celled. Ovaiy 1-3-eelled, inferior, half- 

 superior, or partly immersed in the disk; ovules few, anatropous; style 

 short, iisually simple; stigma entire or 2-5-lobed. Fruit drupaceous, 1- 

 celled. Testa of the seed membranous; endosperm fleshy, or rarely want- 

 ing. About 25 genera and 140 species, mostly tropical. 



Petals united to above the middle.. 1. Schoepfla. 



Petals nearly separate. 2. Ximenia. 



1. SOHOEPFIA Schreb.; Gmel. Syst. 376. 1791. 



Glabrous trees or shrubs, witli coriaceous entire leaves and small perfect 

 flowers in axiDary cymes. Calyx very small, 4-toothed. Petals united to above 

 the middle, forming a tubular or ureeolate, 4-6-lobed corolla, the lobes valvate, 

 recurved. Stamens as many as the eoroUa-lobes and opposite them; filaments 

 filiform or short; anthers didymous. Ovary sessile, 3-ceIIed, partly immersed 

 in the disk; style slender or short; stigma capitate or 3-lobed; ovules usually 

 1 in each cavity. Fruit a, small drupe nearly enclosed by the accrescent disk. 

 [Commemorates J. D. Schoepf, 1752-1800, German botanist.] About 15 

 species, of tropical and subtropical America and Asia. Type species: 

 Schoepfla Schreieri Gmel. 



Leaves obovate, obtuse. 1. 8. oiovata. 



Leaves ovate, elliptic or lanceolate, acute. 2. S. chrysophylloides. 



1. Schoepfla obovata C. Wright; Sauy. Anales Acad. Habana 5: 289. 1868. 



A glabrous shrub 1-3 m. high, or sometimes a tree up to 10 m. high, the 

 tmgs slender, gray, the bark rough in narrow plates. Leaves obovate, oblong 

 or elliptic, coriaceous, 2-4 cm. long, rounded or obtuse at the apex, narrowed 

 or cimeate at the base, few-veined, the petioles 1-3 mm. long; peduncles soli- 

 tary or few together in the axils, 2-8 mm. long, 1-3-flowered; flowers sessile; 

 corolla ovoid-eylindric, 4r-5 mm. long, red to greenish yellow, the lobes ovate or 

 triangular-ovate; fruit globose-obovoid to ellipsoid, 5-8 mm. long; fruit yellow 

 or red when mature. 



Thickets and coppices, Abaeo, Great Bahama, Xew Providence, JXariguana and 

 Acklln's : — Cuba ; Hispaniola ; Porto Rico ; Anegada. Referred to by Mrs. Northrop 

 as Elaeodendron xylocarpum. White Beepwood. 



2. Schoepfia chrysophylloides (A. Eich.) Planch. Ann. Sci. Xat. rv. 2: 261. 



1854. 



Diplooalyx chrysophylloides A. Eich. in Sagra, Hist. Cub. 11: 81. 1850. 



A shrub or small tree sometimes up to 8 m. high, with crooked branches and 

 slender glabrous twigs. Leaves subcoriaceous, ovate to lanceolate, 2-6 cm. 

 long, acute or obtusish at the apex, narrowed at the base, glabrous, the 

 margined petioles 4-8 mm. long; flowers solitary or 2 or 3 together in the 

 axils, reddish; calyx about 2 mm. long; corolla narrowly campanula tSj about 



