410 ETJBIACEAE. 



1. Casasia clusiaefolia (Jacq.) "Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 505. 1908. 



Gardenia clusiaefolia Jaeq. Coll. 5: 37. 1796. 

 Genipa clusiaefolia Griseb. M. Br. W. I. 317. 1861. 



A branching shrub, 1-3 m. tall, the foliage glabrous, turning black in 

 drying. Leaves clustered, leathery, obovate to cuneate, 5-15 cm. long, rounded 

 or retuse at the apex, lustrous, often mucronate, entire, short-petioled; calyx- 

 tube 8-10 mm. long, turbinate, the lobes subulate, shorter than the tube; 

 corolla fleshy, glabrous, its tube 1.5-2 cm. long, its lobes lanceolate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, shorter than the tube ; berries ovoid to obovoid, 5-7 cm. long. 



Coastal rocks, Berry Islands, the Bimlnis, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera to 

 Watllng's, Caicos, Inagua and the islands of the Cay Sal Bank : — Florida ; Bermuda ; 

 Cuba. Seven-yeae Apple. Catesby, 1 : pi. 59. 



5. EAliTDIA L. Sp. PI. 1192. 1753. 



Evergreen, often spiny shrubs or trees, with oposite leaves and perfect 

 solitary, usually axillary flowers. Calyx-lobes 4. Corolla funnelform, salver- 

 form or campanulate, its lobes 5, convolute. Stamens 5, adnate to the throat 

 of the corolla; filaments short or nearly wanting. Disk annular or cushion- 

 like. Ovary 2-celled or very rarely 3-4-celled; ovules several or many in each 

 cavity; styles usually united, stout, terminating in a club-shaped, spindle- 

 shaped or rarely cleft stigma. Berry usually 2-celled. Seeds free or in a 

 pulp; testa thin, the endosperm' horny. [In honor of Isaac Hand, English 

 apothecary.] About 100 species, natives of tropical regions. Type species: 

 Bandia mitis L. 



1. Randia mitis L. Sp. PI. 1192. 1753. 



Eandia aculeata L. 6p. PI. 1192. 1763. 



A virgate branching shrub, 1-3 m. tall, or a small tree up to 7 m. high, 

 usually spiny, the foliage glabrous or nearly so. Leaves often clustered, spatu- 

 late, obovate, elliptic, oval or suborbicular, 1-5 cm. long, narrowed into short 

 petioles; flowers axillary, short-stalked; calyx-lobes triangular or ovate; 

 corolla white, 6-8 mm. long, its lobes oblong, shorter than the tube; berries 

 subglobose or oval, white, 8-12 mm. long. 



Scrub-lands and coppices, throughout the archipelago from Abaco, Great Bahama 

 and Andros to Turk's Islands and Inagua : — Bermuda ; Florida ; West Indies and 

 Mexico. Races differ in size and shape of leaves and in size of fruit. Box Bbiab. 



6. CATESBAEA L. Sp. PI. 109. 1753. 



Spineseent shrubs or small trees, with terete twigs and small glabrous, 

 often fascicled leaves, the small stipules deciduous. Flowers white, solitary 

 and short-peduncled in the axils. Calyx subeampanulate, with 4 narrow per- 

 sistent lobes. Corolla funnelform or campanulate, its 4 lobes valvate. Stamens 

 4, borne near the base of the corolla. Ovary 2-celled; stigma 2-lobed. Ovules 

 several cr many. Fruit a white berry. Seeds with fleshy endosperm. [In 

 honor of Mark Oatesby, 1679-1749, traveller and naturalist.] About 8 species, 

 natives of Florida and the "West Indies. Type species: Catesiaea spinosa L. 



Flowers very large, drooping. 1. C. spinosa. 

 Flowers very small, nearly concealed among the leaves. 



Leaves 3-10 mm. long, suborbicular to oblanceolate. 2. O. parviflora. 



Leaves 8-13 mm. long, linear to obovate-spatulate. 3. 0. foHoaa. 



