180 TREES AND SHRUBS. 



form crowned by a minute discoid sessile stigma and probably abortive ; in the other form, gradu- 

 ally narrowed into a slender style terminating in an oblique stigma and fertile ; pistillate flowers, 

 anthers smaller and rudimentary, the ovary crowned by a large nearly sessile irregularly lobed 

 papillose stigma deciduous from the fruit. Fruit clusters crowded on the elongated somewhat 

 thickened spurlike peduncles covered with imbricated persistent bracts, dark blue or nearly black, 

 crowned by the persistent style, from 4 to 5 millimetres in diameter; exocarp thin, fleshy; 

 endocarp crustaceous, white; seed light chestnut-brown and lustrous; albumen ruminate. 



A tree, in Florida occasionally from 6 to 7 metres high, with a tall usually more or less crooked 

 trunk from 1.6 to 2 centimetres in diameter, covered with thin close pale gray bark, small 

 ascending branches forming an open irregular head, and slender gray or light red-brown branch- 

 lets roughened for a year or two by the persistent spur-like peduncles of the fallen fruit and later 

 marked by their circular scars in the axils of the small transverse leaf-scars ; or more often shrubby 

 in habit. Wood hard, strong, close-grained, pale yellow-brown. 



Florida : shores of Indian River on the east coast and Palmetto, Manatee County, on the west 

 coast (G. V.Nash, No. 2440), southward to the southern keys, common. On the Bahamas and 

 through the West Indian Islands to southern Brazil, 1 and to Mexico and Bolivia. 



C. S. S. 



i Judging by the figure of the pistillate flower with its deeply lobed stigma and of the staminate flower of one form only in 

 Martius's FL Brasil. x. t. 50 & 51, it is possible that these plates may represent another species. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 

 Plate CLXXII. Rapanea guianensis. 



1. A branch with staminate flowers, natural size. 



2. A flower with fertile anthers and sessile discoid stigma, enlarged. 



3. The same flower with the corolla laid open, enlarged. 



4. An anther of the same flower, rear view, enlarged. 



5. Vertical section of a pistil of the same flower, enlarged. 



6. A flower with abortive anthers and elongated style, enlarged. 



7. A branch with pistillate flowers, natural size. 



8. A pistillate flower, enlarged. 



9. A vertical section of a pistil of the same flower, enlarged. 



10. A placenta of the same flower, enlarged. 



11. A fruiting branch, natural size. 



12. Vertical section of a fruit, enlarged. 



