. 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. 842 Princewood for ornament near its home and would seem to deserve more general use as a garden plant in the southern States. Its generic name is in commemoration of General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina, an officer in the Revolution, a botanist and chemist. There is but I species known. II. PRINCEWOOD GENUS EXOSTEMA L. C. RICHARD Species Ezostema caribaeum (Jacquin) Roemer and Schultes Cinchona carihma J
. 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. 842 Princewood for ornament near its home and would seem to deserve more general use as a garden plant in the southern States. Its generic name is in commemoration of General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina, an officer in the Revolution, a botanist and chemist. There is but I species known. II. PRINCEWOOD GENUS EXOSTEMA L. C. RICHARD Species Ezostema caribaeum (Jacquin) Roemer and Schultes Cinchona carihma Jacquin HIS small, West Indian and Central American tree or shrub occurs on the sandy coast of the Florida Keys, reaching a height of about 8 meters, with a trunk diameter of 3 dm. The ascending branches are slender, and form an irregular tree; the bark is about 3 mm. thick, gray, deeply fissured into smooth plates. The twigs are round, smooth, green, becoming brown and finally gray. The persistent leaves are opposite, oblong to eUiptic or ovate-lanceolate, 4 to 8 cm. long, sharp or taper- pointed at each end, smooth, dark green above, yellowish green and prominently yellow-veined be- neath; the leaf-stalk is slender and yellow, 5 to 10 mm. long, the stipules small, triangular. The flowers, opening at any season, are perfect, sohtary in the axils of the leaves, on peduncles some- what shorter than the leaf-stalks; the calyx-tube is narrowly bell- shaped, 4 to 7 mm. long, the 5 lobes triangular and much shorter than the tube; the white corolla is funnel-shaped, the tube narrow, to 4 cm. long, somewhat hairy in the throat, the linear, blunt lobes spreading, nearly as long as the tube; stamens alternate with the corolla lobes, long-exserted, their filaments slender, united at the base; anthers Unear-oblong, opening lengthwise; the ovary is inferior, 2-celled; styles united, filiform; stigma entire; ovules numerous. The fruit is an elUpsoid capsule, about 10 mm. long, dark brown
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