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extrorse, versatile : fruit cliCTry-likc, with thin pulp, containing a raoftly .solitary erect 

 seed (from a 5-ovuIed ovary) ; the scar small and basilar or nearly so. 



3. DIPHOLIS. Petaloid staminodia mostly erosely or fimbriately toothed. Seed with 

 copious alliumen; tlie embryo in it,'* axis with flat cotyledons. 



4. BUMELIA. Petaloid staminodia entire or denticulate. (Seed destitute of albumen ; 

 the cotyledons very thick and fleshy, commonly consolidated. 



# * Calyx double, of 6 or s sepals in two scrii-s ; the outer almost valrate and enclosing 

 the inner and tliinner. 



5. MIMUSOPS. Corolla of 6 or more exterior proper lobes, and twice as many similar 

 appendages, a pair in each sinus outside of a thin scale-like or petaloid staminodiura. 

 Anthers sagittate, extrorse. Ovary G-H-celled. Pruit baccate, maturing one or few seeds. 



1. CHRYSOPHYLLUM, L. Stak-aitle. (FovmeA oi yovio,; goU, 

 and (pvD.ov, leaf, from the golden sheen of the lower face of the leaves.) — Hand- 

 some trees of tropical regions ; with the leaves in the commoner species green 

 and glabrous above, and beneath resplendent with a golden or copper-colored 

 silky pubescence, traversed by fine and close parallel trans\-erse veins : flowers 

 small in axillary fascicles : fruit fleshy and commonly edible. 



C. Caixito, L., the common Star-apple of the W. Indies, if spontaneous in Florida, is 

 doubtless an introduced tree. It has an 8-10-erenate stigma and an 8-10-celled large and 

 globose edible fruit, as large as an apple ; the foliage imdistinguishable from the following. 



C. olivif orme, Lam. Small tree : leaves oval ; the lower face (also young shoots, 

 pedicels, and calyx) silky-tomentose and shining with the copper-colored or golden pubes- 

 cence : corolla white ; its tube seldom exceeding the calyx ; stigma 5-crenate : fruit ovoid- 

 oblong, 1-seeded, blackish when ripe, insipid. — Diet. i. 5.32 ; Descourt. Fl. Ant. ii. t. 71 ; 

 Griseb. PI. AV. Ind. 308. C. moiiojii/renum, Swartz ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3303; Miq. in PI. 

 Bras. vii. 94. — S. Florida and Key West, Blodgetl, Chapman. ( W. Ind.) 



2. SIDERCXYLON, L. (Composed of alSr^noi. iron, and iilov, wood, 

 from the hardness of the latter.) — A wide-spread tropical genus, of which a 

 single T\'. Indian species has reached Florida. 



S. mastichodendron, Jacq. (Mastic-tree.) Eather large tree, glabrous: leaves 

 thinnish, oval, with undulate margins, rounded or bluntishat apex, acutish at base, sinning 

 above (2 to i inches long), on slender (inch long) petioles : flowers crowded in lateral or 

 axillary fascicles much shorter than the petioles : calyx barely puberulent, half the length 

 of the 5-parted yellow corolla : staminodia lanceolate, with a subulate tip, nearly entire : 

 ovary glabrous, 5-celled : fruit plum-like, 1-seeded, "yellow." — Coll. ii. t. 17, f. 5 (Catesb. 

 Car. ii. t. 7.5) ; Ga^rtn. f. Carp. Suppl. 12.3, t. 202; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 181. .?. palliduin. 

 Spreng. ; A. DC. I.e. ; Chapm. PI. 274. Bumelia pallida, '^wa.rXz. B. fictidisiima,'SntX.>>y\\. 

 m. 39, t. 94. — Key West (BhdjM) and Charlotte Harbor, Florida. (W. Ind.) 



3. DfPHOLIS, A. DC. (Formed of S(V. double, and gjo/./,-, scale, from the 

 pair of appendages in the sinuses of the corolla.) — Three W.Indian species, 

 with the asjaect and seeds of Sideroxyloii, one of them extending to Southern 

 Florida. 



D. salicifolia, A. DC. Tree 60 feet high : leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, gla- 

 brous, tapering into a petiole : flowers in axillary fascicles : short pedicels and calyx ru-ty 

 silkr-pubescent : staminodia oval, erose-toothed, as long as the linear or subulate exterior 

 appendages : anthers oblong : fruit the size of a pea. — Prodr. 1. c. 188, & Deloss. Ic. v. 40 

 (corolla-lobes and appendages too much fringe-toothed) ; Griseb. PL W. Ind. 401 ; iliq. in 

 Fl. Bras. vii. t. 18. Achras salicifolia, L. Bumelia salicifolia, Swartz. — Keys of S. Florida, 

 Blodgett. (W. Ind.) 



4. BUMELIA, Swartz. (Ancient Greek name of a kind of Ash. unmean- 

 ino-ly transferred to this genus.) — Shrubs or small trees (of Atlantic U. S. and 



