SMALL-LEAVEp SEA-SIDE GRAPE. 
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polygamous flowers, are 6 to 12 inches long, articulated 
upon very short peduncles, and grow by clusters, at first 
erect, but in fruit pendulous. The nut has a thin shell, 
half 3-celled at the base, with narrow membranous dissepi- 
ments. Seed somewhat globular, acute, deeply umbilicated 
at base, brown and irregularly striated. There is some- 
times an appearance of gummy exudation on the surface 
of the leaves having an astringent taste like that of the 
extract. 
Plate LXXXVIII. 
A twig of the natural size. a. The male flowers, b. The flower, 
c. The raceme of fruit. 
SMAlX-LEAVED SEA-SIDE GRAPE. 
COCCOLOBA # paevifolia, dioica, foliis obbngo-lanceolatis ovalibusque, 
racemis erectis, floribus octandris. 
p. ovalifolia, foliis ovalibus utrinque obtusis. 
Coccoloba obtusifolia? Jacquin, Amer. p. 114, t. 74. 
This species, according to Dr. Blodgett, who found it 
growing on Key West, is a dioecious tree attaining the 
height of 40 feet. It appears to have a near affinity to C. 
obtusifolia of Carthagena, at least our variety P. and there 
is a very similar species also indigenous to St. Domingo, 
according to the Herbarium of Poiteau. It appears very 
near to the “ Pigeon Plum,” of Catesby, plate 94, which, 
like the present, becomes a large tree, bearing a pleasant 
tasted berry ; its wood is hard and durable, and it affects 
rocky situations. 
