. 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. 774 Mastic The name is Greek, in reference to the golden pubescence on the under side of the leaves. II. MASTIC GENUS SIDEEOXyLON [DILLENIUS] LINN^US Species Sideroxylon foBtddissimnm Jacquin Sideroxylon mastichodendron Jacquin ^LSO called Wild olive, this is a large tree of rich hammocks in penin- sular Florida and the Keys, and is widely distributed in the Bahamas and other West Indies. Its maximvmi height is about 25 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. 774 Mastic The name is Greek, in reference to the golden pubescence on the under side of the leaves. II. MASTIC GENUS SIDEEOXyLON [DILLENIUS] LINN^US Species Sideroxylon foBtddissimnm Jacquin Sideroxylon mastichodendron Jacquin ^LSO called Wild olive, this is a large tree of rich hammocks in penin- sular Florida and the Keys, and is widely distributed in the Bahamas and other West Indies. Its maximvmi height is about 25 meters, with a trunk diameter of m. The trunk is very thick, and straight. The branches are stout, spreading and ascending. The bark is about 10 mm. thick, and spUts into thick, scaly plates, gray to light reddish brown. The twigs are stout, round, smooth, finally brown and bearing large round leaf scars. The leaves are alternate, thin, leathery, ob- long to oval, rarely ovate, 5 to 15 cm. long, blunt or short taper- pointed, rounded or tapering at the base, bright green, smooth and shining above, sparingly hairy at first, soon becoming smooth, shin- ing and pale green beneath; the broad midrib is impressed above, prominent beneath; leaf-stalk pale, slender, 2 to 7 cm. long. The small flowers appear at almost any season, m clusters in the axils of the leaves, on slender stalks i cm. long or less; calyx green, bell- shaped, its 5 sepals suborbicular, about 2 mm. long; corolla 6 to 7 Fig. 705. Mastic. mm. across,greenish yellow, longer than the calyx, with 5 rounded lobes; stamens equal the petals in length and number, their anthers lanceolate; filaments slender; staminodes lanceolate, long- pointed, about I mm. long, much shorter than the stamens; ovary 5-celled, or rarely 2- or 4-celled, oblong-ovoid, smooth, tapering into the stigmatic tipped style. The fruit, of which there is usually but i produced by each flower-cluster, is a i-seeded oval drupe about cm. long, brigh
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