. 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. Lancewood 401 thin, light gray, the slender smooth round twigs brown, turning gray. The oblong to oblong-lanceolate leaves are 15 cm. long or less, pointed or long-pointed, smooth, dark green and shining on the upper surface, dull green, sparingly finely hairy or smooth on the under side, narrowed at the base, rather strongly netted-veined, their stalks cm. long or less. The small perfect white flowers are numerous in
. 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. Lancewood 401 thin, light gray, the slender smooth round twigs brown, turning gray. The oblong to oblong-lanceolate leaves are 15 cm. long or less, pointed or long-pointed, smooth, dark green and shining on the upper surface, dull green, sparingly finely hairy or smooth on the under side, narrowed at the base, rather strongly netted-veined, their stalks cm. long or less. The small perfect white flowers are numerous in axillary panicles, opening in March and April, their stalks 4 or 5 mm. long, reddish; the calyx is 2 or 3 mm. long in flower, its 6 lobes ovate-oblong and blunt; there are 12 stamens, shorter than the calyx, arranged in four series of 3 each, those. Fig. 354. — Lancewood. of the inner or fourth series without anthers (staminodes), those of the third series bearing 2 glands on the filaments, those of the two outer series glandless and hairy; the style is short and cylindric. The fruit is a dark blue or nearly black drupe, globular or oval, cm. long or less, borne on the persistent enlarged lower part of the calyx (hypanthium). The tree is classified by some authors as Nectandra coriacea (Swartz) Grise- bach, of the West Indies, and is certainly closely related to it. The wood is dark brown and hard, with a specific gravity of about Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Shafer, John Adolph. New York : H. Holt and Co.
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