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Family MELASTOMACE^E 

 TETRAZYGIA A. Richard 



Tetrazygia tricolor (Miller) Cogniaux. 



Range. — Southern Florida (at Homestead in Dade County, and on Long and 

 Paradise Keys — in the Everglades). Occurs also in the Bahamas and West 

 Indies. First detected within our borders in 1908; added to our tree flora in 

 1911." 



Family COMBRETACE^] 4a 

 BUCIDA Linnaeus 



Bucida buceras Linnaeus. Black Olive-tree. 



Range. — Southern Florida (Elliotts Ke} 1 ")," West Indies, coast Caribbean Sea, 

 and Bay of Panama. 



Note on nomenclature. — Formerly designated as Terminalia buceras Wright. 



NAME IN USE 



Black Olive-tree 

 CONOCARPUS Linnaeus 



Conocarpus erecta Linnseus. Bnttonwood. 



Range. — Coast of southern Florida (Cape Canaveral and Tampa Bay to 

 southern Keys); Bahamas and West Indies; Central and South America; Gala- 

 pagos Islands; west coast of Africa. 



NAME IN USE 



Buttonwood (Fla.) 

 LAGUNCULARIA Gaertner 



Laguncularia racemosa (Linnaeus) Gaertner fils. White Buttonwood. 



Range. — Coast of southern Florida (Manitee County on the west to Brevard 

 County on the east) ; West Indies, Bermuda, Bahamas, Mexico, Central and 

 South .merica, and western Africa. 



NAMES IN USE 



White Buttonwood (Fla.). Buttonwood (Fla.). 



White Mangrove (Fla.). 



Family ARALIACE^S 



ARALIA Linnaeus 



Aralia spinosa Linnaeus. Devil's Walking-stick. 



Range. — From Pennsylvania (Allegheny Mountains in Clearfield, Cambria, 

 Westmoreland, Bedford, and Fayette Counties) to Florida; westward to southern 

 Indiana, southeastern Iowa, southeastern Missouri, southeastern Oklahoma, 

 southwestern Arkansas (Rich Mountain), and eastern Texas. 



<» C. S. Sargent (Trees and Shrubs, II. Pt. Ill, 173, 1911); J. K. Small (Flor. So. E. U. S., ed. 2, 826, 1913). 



*• Terminalia catappa Linnaeus, Indian Almond, a tree native of the East Indies, has been recorded as 

 naturalized in southern Florida and on Key West by J. K. Small (Flor. S. E. U. S., 830, 1902) and by 

 Britton and Shafer (North Am. Trees, 717, 1908). It is widely planted and naturalized in tropical America 

 and in the West Indies, and probably should be added to our arborescent flora. 



