. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Long Stalked Stopper 727 black dotted beneath; the rather stout leaf-stalk is 2 to 6 mm. long. The flowers are 6 to 8 mm. wide and ap- pear at nearly all seasons, in several flowered, axillary clus- ters, on smooth pedicels 6 to 15 mm. long; the calyx is punctate, its 4 lobes ovate and sharp-pointed; corolla white, its blunt petals ovate. The fruit, which is solitary, or 2 to 4 together, is subglo- bose, scarlet, 5 to 8 m
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Long Stalked Stopper 727 black dotted beneath; the rather stout leaf-stalk is 2 to 6 mm. long. The flowers are 6 to 8 mm. wide and ap- pear at nearly all seasons, in several flowered, axillary clus- ters, on smooth pedicels 6 to 15 mm. long; the calyx is punctate, its 4 lobes ovate and sharp-pointed; corolla white, its blunt petals ovate. The fruit, which is solitary, or 2 to 4 together, is subglo- bose, scarlet, 5 to 8 mm. in diameter, glandular and capped by the caljrx-lobes; its flesh is thin and dryish; seed nearly globular, light brown and shining. ^'°- ^- - Garber's Stopper. The wood is very hard, strong, close-grained, and reddish brown; its specific gravity is about The dark green lustrous foliage is very striking, the leaves characteristically 5. LONG STALKED STOPPER —Eugenia longipes Berg Although usually a low shrub, this rarely becomes a small tree up to 4 meters high, with a trunk i dm. in diameter. It grows in sandy or rocky soil in southern Florida and the Bahama islands. The twigs are slender, slightly hairy, reddish brown to gray. The leaves are thick and leath- ery, oblong to oval, i to 3 cm. long, sharp or blunt-pointed, narrowed or rounded at the base, entire and revolute on the margin, bright green, smooth and shining, with prominent yellowish midrib above, slightly paler, finely netted and black dotted beneath, the leaf-stalk stout and short. The flowers are in axillary, few-flowered clusters on pedicels 2 to 6 cm. long; calyx smooth but glandular punctate, its 4 lobes ovate to broadly ovate; the corolla is white, 8 to 10 mm. broad, its petals oblong, much longer than the lobes of the calyx. The fruit is a subglobose, Fig. 667. — Long Stalked Stopper, (jark red berry, 6 to 9 mm. in diameter, crowned with the very large persistent Please
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