168 TREES AND SHRUBS. 



eels from 5 to 6 millimetres long on much thickened peduncles, drupaceous, obovate to sub- 

 globose, dark purple or nearly black, from 6 to 7 millimetres in diameter, three-celled; exocarp 

 thin, septicidally dehiscent into three one-seeded crustaceous light yellow nutlets two-valved at the 

 apex ; seeds erect, broadly obovate, compressed, three-angled, 5 millimetres long. 



A tree, near Homestead, Dade County, Florida, sometimes from 7 to 8 metres high, with a straight 

 trunk from 2 to 3 decimetres in diameter, large erect branches and stout branchlets densely rusty- 

 pubescent when they first appear, and light gray, puberulous and marked by small dark lenticels 

 in their second year ; or often a shrub. Flowers produced irregularly in spring. Fruit ripens 

 during the following winter and spring. 1 



Florida: Boca Chica Key, A. H. Curtiss (No. 473); Key Largo, G. S. Sargent, April 15, 1886; 



Flamingo, Munro County, A. A. Eaton, March 16, 1905; Homestead, Dade County, A. R. 



it, March 30, 1908 (all in herb. Arnold Arboretum) ; also on several of the Antilles. 



Wished by Commelin in 1697 as Arbor baccifera itidica, foliis majoribus splendentibus, 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 

 Plate CLXVIII. Colubkina arbokescens. 



1. A flowering branch, natural size. 



2. A flower, enlarged. 



3. Vertical section of a flower, enlarged. 



4. A petal, enlarged. 



5. A fruiting branch, natural size. 



6. Cross section of a fruit, enlarged. 



7. Vertical section of a fruit, enlarged. 



8. A nutlet showing the seed, enlarged. 



9. A seed, enlarged. 



10. Vertical section of a seed, enlarged. 



