. 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. White Ironwood 667 short and there are no stipules; the leaflets are nearly or quite smooth, oblong, elliptic or oblong-obovate, pointed, blunt or notched, entire-margined, 5 to 13 cm. long, dark green and shining on the upper side, lighter green on the under; they are narrowed at the base and very short-stalked or stalkless. The small dioecious or polygamous flowers, which open in March or April, are in terminal and axil
. 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. White Ironwood 667 short and there are no stipules; the leaflets are nearly or quite smooth, oblong, elliptic or oblong-obovate, pointed, blunt or notched, entire-margined, 5 to 13 cm. long, dark green and shining on the upper side, lighter green on the under; they are narrowed at the base and very short-stalked or stalkless. The small dioecious or polygamous flowers, which open in March or April, are in terminal and axillary stalked clusters; the flower-stalks and calyx are finely hairy; there are 5 ovate, very blunt persistent sepals about 3 mm. long, and 5 white ovate-oblong petals nearly of the same length; the stamens are 7 or 8 in number, those of the staminate flowers about as long as the petals, those of pistillate flowers much shorter; the ovary is 2-celled, hairy, stalkless, the style very short, the knob-like stigma turned to one side. The fruit is a globular berry with a juicy orange-colored pulp, turning purple, 10 to 13 mm. in diameter, the seed yellow-brown. The heavy hard wood is red-brown, with a specific gravity of about ; it is used in boat-building, for dock-piles, and for Fig. 619. — Inkwood. III. WHITE IRONWOOD GENUS HYPELATE PATRICK BROWNE Species Hypelate trifoliata Swartz jlHIS, the only known species of Hypelate, is an evergreen tree, occurring on the Keys of southern Florida, in the Bahama islands, Porto Rico, 'Cuba, and Jamaica. It attains a maximum height of about 13 meters and a trunk diameter of about 5 dm. The thin bark is smooth or nearly so. The young twigs are round, smooth, slender and greenish, becoming gray. The leaves are composed of 3 leaflets, borne on a narrowly margined stalk i to 5 cm. long; there are no stipules; the leaflets are firm in texture, obovate or spatulate, entire-margined, blunt, somewhat pointed or rarely notched, 2
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