27G MYRSINACE.K. (mTBSINB FAMILY.) 



Order 83. THEOPIIRASTACE.r:. (Theophrasta 



Family.) 



Trees or shrubs, with watery juice. Leaves coriaceous, often resinous- 

 dotted, without stipules. Flowers perfect, thick, white, orange, or red. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla 5-cleft, with a single appendage between the 

 lobes. Stamens 5, fertile, opposite the lobes of the corolla : anthers ex- 

 troree, 2-celled, the thickened connective prolonged above the cells. 

 Ovary tree, 1-eellcd, many-ovuled. Placenta central, globose. Stigma 

 capitate. Fruit globose. Seeds few, enclosed in gelatinous pulp. Em- 

 bryo in the axis of copious albumen. Radicle inferior. 



1. JACQUINIA, L. 



Calyx-lobes obtuse. Corolla bell-shaped, with ovate obtuse appendages. 

 Stamens inserted on the base of the corolla: filaments broad and fiat. Style 

 cylindrical from a conical base: stigma capitate, 5-angled. Berry pointed, 3- 

 LO-seeded. Albumen hard. — Leaves entire, short-petioled. Flowers in racemes. 



1. J. armillaris, Jacq. 1 Branches puberulent; leaves wedgc-obovate, 

 smooth, emarginate, 3-nerved, punctate, short-petioled, the margins reyolutc ; 

 racemes chiefly terminal, somewhat fleshy, many-flowered, rather longer than 

 the leaves ; bracts ovate; pedieels erect, club-shaped ; corolla short, bell-shaped, 

 fleshy, the tube shorter than the rounded lobes ; stamens short ; the filaments 

 dilated and connate at the base, lining the base of the corolla ; fruit subglobose. 

 — South Florida. — Leaves l'-li' long. Fruit 5" in diameter, orange-red 



Order 84. MYRSINACE^E. (Mtrsine Family.) 



Trees or shrubs, often glandular-dotted, with alternate exstipulate 

 mostly entire leaves, and regular, often monoecious or dioecious, white 

 or rose-colored flowers. — Calyx 4-6-partecL Corolla 4-6-cleft. Sta- 

 mens 4-6, opposite the lobes of the corolla: anthers 2-celled. introrse. 

 Ovary mostly free, 1 -celled, smooth : ovules 1 - many, imbedded in the 

 cavities of the central placenta. Style simple. Fruit drupaceous, glo- 

 aomewhal fleshy, commonly 1-eeeded. Seeds roundish, concave at 

 the base. Embryo transverse, in hard albumen. 



1. MYRSINE, L. 



Flowers nolygamo-dioecious. Calyx 4 -5-parted. Corolla 4 -5-cleft, imbri- 

 cated in the hud. Stamens 4-5, inserted on the base of the corolla: anthers 

 longer than the filaments, opening from the base upward. Style short : stigma 

 capitate. Ovules 4-5, amphitropous. Drupe globose, l -seeded. — Leaves 

 coriaceous. Flowers small, in axillary clusters, on short pedicels. 



