. 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. Tallowwood 377 vm^ II. TALLOWWOOD GENUS XIMENIA [PLUMIER] LINNAEUS Species Ximenia americana Linnaeus THORNY small tree or shrub, which encircles the globe in the tropics, entering our area in peninsular Florida and the Keys, where it attains a maximum height of 6 meters. It is the type species of the genus. It is also called Seaside plum, Hog plum, Moimtain plum. False sandalwood, and Wild olive. The branches are thorny
. 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. Tallowwood 377 vm^ II. TALLOWWOOD GENUS XIMENIA [PLUMIER] LINNAEUS Species Ximenia americana Linnaeus THORNY small tree or shrub, which encircles the globe in the tropics, entering our area in peninsular Florida and the Keys, where it attains a maximum height of 6 meters. It is the type species of the genus. It is also called Seaside plum, Hog plum, Moimtain plum. False sandalwood, and Wild olive. The branches are thorny and spreading; the bark is close, smooth, reddish, and very astringent. The twigs are angular, be- coming round and smooth. The leaves are alter- nate, or in clusters of 3, firm and leathery, oblong or elliptic, 3 to 7 cm. long, blimt or notched at the apex, tapering or rounded at the base, entire on the margin, sUghtly hairy when young, bright green and smooth above, paler beneath; the leaf-stalk is slen- der, grooved, 5 to 10 mm. long. The flowers are yellowish white and fragrant, perfect, in 2- to 4- flowered axillary clusters, on pedicels about as long as the leaf-stalk; the calyx is persistent, with 4 or 5 triangular sharp-pointed lobes; the corolla narrowly bell-shaped, leathery, 4-lobed, the lobes linear, with reflexed elongated tips; stamens 8, borne at the base of the ovary, theirfilaments thread-like, erect; anthers linear, opening lengthwise; ovary superior, sessile, ovoid-oblong, 3- or 4- celled, and smooth; styles united, as long as the calyx; stigma capitate; ovules 3 or 4 in each cell. The fruit, ripening in July, is a yellow or reddish, pulpy drupe, globose or broadly ovoid, 14 to 17 mm. in diameter, with an almond-like odor and acid taste. The stone is ovoid, about 2 cm. long, minutely pitted, hght reddish brown, with a white seed. The fruit is edible, and is a favorite food of many birds. The wood is hard, close-grained, yellow; its specific gravity is about 0
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