TREES AND SHRUBS. 



RAPAXEA GTTIAKENSIS, Aubl. 



Rapanea guianensis, Aublet, Hist. PI. Guian. i. 121, t. 46 (1775). — Lamarck, HI ii. 48, t. 



122, f. 1. — Poiret, Lamarck Diet. vi. 67. — Mez, Urban Symb. Fl. Antill. ii. 431; Engler 



Pflanzenreich, Heft 9 (iv. 236), 392. —Small, Fl. Southeastern U. S. 907.— Britton & Shafer, 



N. Am. Trees, 767. 

 Samara pentandra, Swartz, Obs. Bot. 51 (not Aiton) (1791). 



Sideroxylon punctatum, Lamarck, III. ii. 42 (1793). — Poiret, Lamarck Diet. Suppl. i. 446. 

 Samara floribunda, Willdenow, Spec. i. 665 (1797). 

 Myrsine floribunda, R. Brown, Prodr. 533 (1810). — Grisebach, Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 393 ; Cat. 



PI. Cub. 162. — Duss, Ann. Inst. Col. Marseille, iii. 382 (Fl. Phaner. Antill. Franc.).— 



Stahl, Estud. Fl. Puerto Rico, vi. 36. 

 Caballeria coriacea, G. F. W. Meyer, Prim. Fl. Esseq. 118 (1818). 

 Bumelia ? punctata, Rcemer & Schultes, Syst. iv. 498 (1819). 

 Myrsine Rapanea, Rcemer & Schultes, Syst. iv. 509 (1819).— A. De Candolle, Ann. Sci. Nat. 



ser. 2, ii. 293; Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 107; Prodr. viii. 97. — Miquel, Martins Fl. Brasil. 



x. 307, t. 50, 51. — Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. ii. pt. i. 65. — Chapman, Fl. ed. 3, 296. 

 Myrsine floridana, A. De Candolle, Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 107 (1834); Prodr. viii. 98. — 



Chapman, Fl. 211. 

 Myrsine coriacea, A. De Candolle, Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 107 (not R. Brown) (1834). — 



Grisebach, Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 392. 

 Myrsine cubana, A. De Candolle, Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 2, xvi. 86 (1841); Prodr. viii. 98. — A. 



Richard, Fl. Cub. iii. 77. 

 Myrsine Gaudichaudii, A. De Candolle, Ann. Sci. Nat. s^r. 2, xvi. 85 (1841); Prodr. viii. 96. 

 Myrsine baccata, A. De Candolle, Ann. Sci. Nat. s^r. 2, xvi. 86(1841); Prodr. viii. 99. 

 Myrsine monticola, Martius, Flora, xxiv. ii. Beibl. 18 (1841). 

 Myrsine Rapanea, f. umbrosa, Miquel, Martius Fl. Brasil. x. 308 (1856). 

 Myrsine umbellata, ft major, Miquel, Martius Fl. Brasil. x. 311 (1856). 

 Myrsine umbellata, 8 monticola, Miquel, Martius Fl. Brasil. x. 311, t. 55, f. 2 (1856). 

 Myrsine guianensis (Aublet), O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. ii. 402 (1891). 



Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, oblong-obovate, obtuse or retuse at the apex, 

 gradually narrowed and contracted at the base, coriaceous, bright green and lustrous on the 

 upper surface, paler on the lower surface, from 7 to 10 centimetres long and from 2.5 to 4 centi- 

 metres wide, with thickened revolute margins, thick midribs and obscure veins ; petioles stout, 

 narrowly wing-margined, from 6 to 8 millimetres in length. Flowers usually five- rarely four- 

 merous, trimorphous, white, more or less marked with purple, about 4 millimetres in diameter ; 

 calyx divided to the middle, the lobes broadly ovate, acute or rounded at the apex, slightly ciliate, 

 persistent under the fruit ; corolla two or three times longer than the calyx, five-lobed, the lobes 

 spreading, narrowed and rounded at the apex, slightly ciliate on the margins. Staminate flowers 

 dimorphous; anthers sagitate-apiculate, inserted below the middle of the petals; ovary in one 



