TREES AND SHRUBS. 



CALYPTBAOTHES ZUZYGIUM (L.), Sw. 



Calyptranthes Zuzygium (Linnaeus), Swartz, Prodr. 79 (1788) ; Fl. hid. Occ.il 919. — Will- 



denow, Spec. ii. pt. ii. 974.— Lunan, Hort. Jam. i. 62.— Persoon, Syn. ii. 31. — Sprengel, 



Syst. ii. 500. — De Candolle, Prodr. iii. 257. — A. Richard, Ess. Fl. He Cub. 578; Fl. Cub. 



ii. 275. — Macfadyen,^. Jam. ii. 111. — Gvisebach, Fl. Brit. W.hid.232; Cat. PL Cub.85.— 



Sauvalle, Fl. Cub. 39. — Maze, Fl. Guadeloupe, 46. 

 Myrtus Zuzygium, Linnaeus, Amain, v. 398 (1760) ; Syst. ed. 10, 1056 ; Spec. ed. 2, 675. — 



Swartz, 06s. Bot. 202. 

 Calyptranthes Chytraculia, e Zuzygium, Berg, Linncea, xxvii. 28 (1854). 



Glabrous. Leaves persistent, elliptical, abruptly or gradually narrowed at the apex into a blunt 

 point, or acute, cuneate at the base, entire, covered with minute pellucid dots, dark yellow-green and 

 lustrous on the upper surface, paler on the lower surface, from 4 to 5.5 centimetres long, from 1.5 to 

 3 centimetres wide, with broad low midribs and slender primary veins arcuate and connected within 

 the slightly revolute somewhat undulate margins; petioles deeply grooved, from 3 to 4 millimetres in 

 length ; stipules wanting. Flowers perfect, on slender pedicels, from 4 to 5 millimetres long, in axillary 

 one- to three-branched cymes, on slender peduncles from 2.5 to 3 centimetres in length, the ultimate 

 divisions of the inflorescence one- to three-flowered ; calyx-tube turbinate, produced above the 

 ovary, enclosed in the bud by a lid-like orbicular limb opening in aestivation by a circumcissile 

 line, the limb at first attached laterally, finally becoming deciduous ; disk lining the tube of the 

 calyx ; petals wanting ; stamens numerous, inserted in many ranks on the margin of the disk ; 

 filaments slender, inflexed in the bud, exserted ; anthers ovate, two-celled, the cells opening longi- 

 tudinally ; style simple, filiform, rather longer than the stamens ; stigma terminal, minute ; ovules 

 two or three in each cell, attached to a central placenta, ascending, anatropous, raphe ventral, the 

 micropyle superior. Fruit baccate, crowned by the persistent calyx-tube, from 8 to 9 millimetres 

 in diameter ; seed subglobose ; cotyledons f oliaceous, conduplicate, radicle elongated, incurved. 



In Florida a tree, sometimes 12 metres high, with a tall trunk from 7 to 8 centimetres in diameter, 

 covered with smooth pale gray bark, small branches, and slender terete ascending ashy gray branch- 

 lets. Flowers in early summer. Fruit ripens in the autumn. 1 



Florida: Dade County, Paradise Key in the Everglades, E. A. Bessey, May 5, 1908 (No. 28); 

 Long Key in the Everglades, E. A. Bessey, May, 1908 (No. 52) (in herb. Arnold Arboretum). 

 Bahama Islands : New Providence, Waterloo, N. L. Britton and L. J. K. Brace, September 13, 

 1904 (No. 742 in herb. Gray). Cuba: C. Wright, 1860-64 (No. 2413 in herb. Gray). Jamaica: 

 W. Harris (Nos. 5073, 5075, 8550, in herb. Arnold Arboretum) ; E. Campbell (No. 5735, in 

 herb. Nat. Mus.). Also in Hayti (teste Grisebach) and Guadeloupe. 



c. s. s. 



1 I have adopted the specific name used first by Linnajus, although recent writers have usually changed it to Suzygium. The 

 only figure of this plant which has been published previously appeared in 1756 in Patrick Browne's Flora of Jamaica, where 

 it was first described as Suzygium frutkosum, foliis ovatis nitidis fr ramulis unique jugatis, 240, t. 7. f. 2. 



