782 



Wild DiUy 



Fig. 713. — Tough Buckthorn. 



entire or toothed, rounded or 

 notched at the apex, corolla 

 slightly longer than the calyx, its 

 lobes 1.5 to 2 mm. long, broad 

 and blimt, its appendages ovate 

 or ovate-lanceolate, often irregu- 

 larly toothed, shorter than the 

 corolla-lobes and the ovate stami- 

 nodes; stamens shorter than the 

 corolla. The fruit drops off soon 

 after ripening in the autimm; it is 

 oblong or oblong-ovoid, 10 to 14 

 mm. long, black, often tipped 

 with the slander, persistent style. 

 Its wood is hard, dense and pale 

 brown, with a specific gravity of 

 about 0.73. 



V. WILD DILLY 



GENUS MIMUSOPS LINN^US 



Species Mimusops parvif olia (Nuttall) Radlkofer 



Achras Zapotilla parvifolia Nuttall. Mimusops Sieheri Chapman, not A. de Candolle 



[|LSO called Wild sapodilla, this evergreen tree of peninsular Florida, 



the Keys, and the Bahamas, becomes 10 meters tall, with a trunk 



diameter of 4 dm., though usually much smaller and often shrubby. 



The trunk is usually very short and widely branched, the branches 



stout, crooked, forming a round-headed tree. 



The bark is 6 mm. thick, with rounded ridges, 



which break into small plates of a gray or 



brown color. The twigs are thick, brownish 



hairy at first, soon becoming smooth, light 



brown and finally gray. The buds are ovoid, 



sharp-pointed and rusty hairy. The leaves 



are clustered at the end of the twigs, persist- 

 ent, thick and leathery, oblong, 5 to 10 cm. 



long, notched at the apex, roimded or taper- 

 ing at the base, somewhat revolute on the 



margin, slightly hairy when imfolding, soon 



becoming smooth, bright green and shining 



with impressed midrib above, paler, with 



prominent midrib, beneath; the leaf-stalk is Fig. 714. — Wild Dilly. 



