. 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. Crabwood 599 gin, dark green and shining, with the midrib prominent above, pale, glaucous and reticulated beneath; leaf-stalk short, grooved above, yellowish. The flowers appear in early spring in the axils of the leaves of the previous season. The staminate are in many-flowered clusters, on pedicels shorter than the leaf-stalk: calyx yellowish, lobed, oblong or oval, blunt and smooth; stamens 8, filaments unequal; anther
. 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. Crabwood 599 gin, dark green and shining, with the midrib prominent above, pale, glaucous and reticulated beneath; leaf-stalk short, grooved above, yellowish. The flowers appear in early spring in the axils of the leaves of the previous season. The staminate are in many-flowered clusters, on pedicels shorter than the leaf-stalk: calyx yellowish, lobed, oblong or oval, blunt and smooth; stamens 8, filaments unequal; anthers nearly as broad as long, hairy. The pistillate flowers are usually solitary, the ovary hairy, i-celled; stigma broad, almost sessile. The fruit is an oblong or ovoid drupe 2 to cm. long, bright white, very conspicuous among the dark green leaves; flesh thick and pulpy, stone obovoid, much narrowed at the base; the seed is oblong, rounded at each end, 10 mm.'long, light brown and marked by conspicuous radiating veins. The wood is hard, weak, brittle, dense, and brown; its specific gravity is about Leaves of seedlings and of shoots from cut stumps are coarsely toothed with bristle-tipped teeth. It is called Whitewood in the Bahamas. II. CRABWOOD GENUS GYBflNANTHES SWARTZ Species Gymnanthes lucida Swartz JLSO called Poison wood, this is a small milky-sapped evergreen tree or shrub of peninsular Florida and the Keys, also in the Bahamas and other West Indies generally; its maximum height is 10 meters, with a trunk diameter of 2 dm. The ridged trunk is slender, sometimes much enlarged at the base. The branches are slender, erect or ascending. The bark is about mm. thick, smooth or somewhat scaly and dark brown. The twigs are slender, round, light green, Jjecoming gray. The leaves are alternate, thick, obovate to oblong- spatulate or nearly oblong, 5 to 10 cm. long, blunt- pointed, tapering at the base, entire or wavy on the margin, becoming dark green, smooth and shi
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