. 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. 822 The Strongbacks the calyx is bell-shaped, 6 to 7 mm. long, the lobes oblong to ovate or Ijinceo- late-oblong, shorter than the tube; the coroUa is white, i cm. long, the tube longer than the calyx, its lobes orbicular or kidney-shaped. The fruit is subglobose, 9 to 14 mm. in diameter, subtended by the persistent calyx. The plant was described and illustrated by Nuttall as Cordia floridana, and erroneously stated to ha
. 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. 822 The Strongbacks the calyx is bell-shaped, 6 to 7 mm. long, the lobes oblong to ovate or Ijinceo- late-oblong, shorter than the tube; the coroUa is white, i cm. long, the tube longer than the calyx, its lobes orbicular or kidney-shaped. The fruit is subglobose, 9 to 14 mm. in diameter, subtended by the persistent calyx. The plant was described and illustrated by Nuttall as Cordia floridana, and erroneously stated to have yellow flowers. 2. STRONGBACK — Bourreria havanensis (Roemer and Schultes) Miers Ehretia havanensis Roemer and Schultes Also called Strongbark, this tree inhabits the Florida Keys, the Bahamas, and other West Indies, reaching a height of 12 meters and a trunk diameter of 2 dm., but is often only a bushy shrub. The trunk is usually short, its branches spreading, round and slender. The bark is about 2 mm. thick, reddish brown. The twigs are slender, round, shghtly hairy, soon becoming smooth, red or grayish. The leaves are thick and firm, obovate to ob- long or oval-obovate, 4 to 12 cm. long, rounded or notched at the apex, narrowed at the base, entire, revolute on the margin, dark green and smooth above, pale green and prominently reticulate veined beneath; the leaf-stalk, is slender, stiff, grooved, 11 to 15 mm. long. The flowers, appearing at al- most all seasons, are in terminal cymes 5 to 10 cm. across; pedicels 4 to 12 mm. long; the calyx is bell-shaped, 5 to 6 mm. long, the 5 teeth irregular, blunt; the corolla is about I cm. long, its tube sHghtly longer than the calyx, the spreading lobes nearly orbicu- lar; the fruit is subglobose, 10 to 13 mm. in diameter, capped by the remnants of the style and subtended by the persistent calyx-lobes; the skin is thick and tough, orange-red; the flesh is thin, enclosing 4 thick-walled nutlets. The wood is hard, strong, dense and
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