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FLORIDA SATIN-WOOD. 
likewise adds, that it is one of the largest and tallest trees 
of the island, attaining the height of 40 or more feet, and 
that it is also indigenous to Barbadoes, where it is ac- 
counted a good timber for in-door work. 
The stem is erect and armed with thick spines. The 
leaves come out principally towards the ends of the 
branches. They are unequally pinnate, and consist of 6 
to 8 pairs ; the leaflets are mostly alternate, and become 
coriaceous, 2 or 3 inches long, marked with obscure pel- 
lucid dots and distant serrulations, the base is rounded and 
somewhat oblique, the leaves rather downy beneath. The 
common petioles are beset with a few short scattered 
prickles, sometimes almost wholly absent. The panicle is 
terminal, much branched and downy. The capsules are 4 
or 5, rather downy, containing black seeds. 
FLORIDA SATIN-WOOD. 
ZAN rHOXYLUM Floridanum, inerme, foliis pinnatis 2 - 3 -jugis , foliolis 
ellipticis subovatis crenulatis peUucido-punctatis , glabris , paniculis iCT~ 
minalibus , multifloris, masculis k-5-andris. 
I his plant is said by its discoverer, Dr. Blodgett, to be 
a large and common tree on the island of Key West, 
where it is known by the name of Satin- W^ood. A nearly 
allied species of Guiana, called “ Negro Pepper,” from its 
aromatic and pungent fruit, ( Z . liermaphroditum ), is said to 
grow 40 or 50 feet high, and to produce white, hard and 
close-grained wood. 
The branches in our plant are cinereous, and much cica- 
trized with the vestiges of fallen leaves. The leaves them- 
selves almost resemble those of some species of ash, they 
