. 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. Black Calabash 839 attaining a maximum height of about 7 meters and a trunk diameter of dm. The branches are long, slender, spreading and drooping, the tree irregularly round-topped. The bark is about 3 mm. thick, brownish or gray, divided into thin scales. The twigs are stout, angular, somewhat enlarged at the nodes and creamy white to dark gray. The leaves are thick and leathery, oblong to oblong- obovate, 7 to 15 c
. 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. Black Calabash 839 attaining a maximum height of about 7 meters and a trunk diameter of dm. The branches are long, slender, spreading and drooping, the tree irregularly round-topped. The bark is about 3 mm. thick, brownish or gray, divided into thin scales. The twigs are stout, angular, somewhat enlarged at the nodes and creamy white to dark gray. The leaves are thick and leathery, oblong to oblong- obovate, 7 to 15 cm. long, abruptly pointed at the apex, narrowed to the stout, thick, glandular leaf-stalk, entire and thickened on the margin, dark green with deeply impressed midrib above, a little paler and prominently veined beneath. The flowers are on stalks 2 to 8 cm. long; the calyx is somewhat shorter than the corolla-tube, 2-cleft, the lobes to 4 cm. long; the corolla is leathery, purple, or. Fig. 763. — Black Calabash. whitish and banded, tubular-fimnelform, from 5 to 6 cm. long, the veiny tube indented belcjw the limb, which is oblique with a reflexed, slightly 2-lobed upper lip, the lower lip somewhat 3-lobed; the stamens are in 2 pairs of unequal height; the ovary is oblong-conic, contracted into the long, exserted style, which is ter- minated by 2 flat, ovate stigmas. The fruit, which is suspended on stout, thickened stalks 4 to 6 cm. long, is dark green, oblong to globose, 6 to 10 cm. long, blunt at each end and obscurely 4-ridged; its shell is about mm. thick and easily crushed; the numerous seeds are about 2 cm. broad, somewhat shorter, 2-lobed and brown. The wood is hard, dense, brown or orange-brown; its specific gravity is about This species has been confused with Crescentia ovata Burmann, an Asiatic Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of
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