. 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. 846 The ,Guettardas. Fig. 768. —Velvetseed. Stout, about 6 mm. long. The hairy flowers are yellowish white, about 8 mm. long, in few- flowered axillary cymes on hairy slender pedun- cles mostly shorter than the leaves; calyx-tube cylindric, 2 to 3 mm. long, densely hairy; co- rolla-lobes oblong or ovate oblong, shorter than the tube and spreading; filaments united to the corolla-tube for a portion of their length; anthers
. 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. 846 The ,Guettardas. Fig. 768. —Velvetseed. Stout, about 6 mm. long. The hairy flowers are yellowish white, about 8 mm. long, in few- flowered axillary cymes on hairy slender pedun- cles mostly shorter than the leaves; calyx-tube cylindric, 2 to 3 mm. long, densely hairy; co- rolla-lobes oblong or ovate oblong, shorter than the tube and spreading; filaments united to the corolla-tube for a portion of their length; anthers oblong, nearly sessile and included in the corolla-tube. The fruit is a subglobose drupe, 8 to 10 mm. in diameter, dark purple, the flesh thin, dry and sweet; the globose stone is 4- to 8-celled, i- to 4- seeded. The wood is hard, dense, reddish brown and satiny; its specific gravity is about It is not known to be used except for fuel. 2. ROUGH VELVETSEED—anettarda scabra Ventenat A small rough-leaved, branching tree or shrub occurring in sandy soils of peninsular Florida, the Keys, and the West Indies, reaching a maximum height of about 6 meters and a trunk di- ameter of dm. The gray bark is nearly smooth. The twigs are slender, round, rough hairy, light red-brown and marked with large leaf scars. The leathery persistent leaves are oval, oblong- ovate to rhombic-obovate, to 8 cm. long, pointed or blunt at the apex, wedge-shaped to heart-shaped at the base, revolute on the margin, very rough above, rusty hairy, 8- to 11- nerved and prominently reticulated beneath; the leaf-stalk is stout, 5 to 15 mm. long; the calyx-tube is densely hair)', 3 to 4 mm. long; the corolla is about cm. long, its tube silky hairy, its 5 to 7 lobes are usually oblong. The fruit is puberulent, subglobose, its flesh nearly dry, about 6 mm. in diameter, the stone 4- to 6-celled. The wood is heavy, hard and Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images
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