. 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. 598 The Drypetes The trunk is short, its branches ascending or erect, the tree becoming round topped. The bark is about mm. thick, close, light reddish brown, smooth or somewhat scaly. The twigs are roimd, slender, light green becoming gray. The leaves are somewhat leathery, oblong or elliptic, 5 to 12 cm. long, sharp or short taper- pointed at both ends, entire on the margin, slightly hairy when young, becoming smoot
. 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. 598 The Drypetes The trunk is short, its branches ascending or erect, the tree becoming round topped. The bark is about mm. thick, close, light reddish brown, smooth or somewhat scaly. The twigs are roimd, slender, light green becoming gray. The leaves are somewhat leathery, oblong or elliptic, 5 to 12 cm. long, sharp or short taper- pointed at both ends, entire on the margin, slightly hairy when young, becoming smooth, shining and dark green above, paler and prominently reticulated beneath; the leaf-stalk is slender, grooved, 5 to 10 mm. long. The flowers appear late in the au- tumn or during the winter in the axils of the leaves or at leafless Fig. S49--Guiana Plum. ^^^^ The calyx is greenish, hairy, deeply 4-lobed, the blunt lobes oblong or ovate, to 2 mm. long. The stami- nate flowers have 4 stamens, their filaments slender; anthers notched and hairy; there is no ovary. The pistillate flowers have an ovoid, hairy, 2-celled ovary. The drupes are solitary or 2 or 3 together on short stout stalks, subglobose, 8 mm. in diameter, dark brown and hairy; the flesh is thin and dry; seed obovoid, swollen on one side, 3 mm. long. The wood is hard, brittle, close-grained, dark red-brown with thick yellow sapwood; its specific gravity is about It has no special LARGER GUIANA PLUM-Diypetes diversif olia Urban Drypetes keyensis Urban. Drypetes glauca Nuttall, not Vahl This is a taller evergreen tree, or often a shrub, of sandy or rocky soils of the Florida Keys and the Bahamas; it sometimes attains a height of 15 meters, with a trunk diameter of 5 dm. The branches are stout, usually erect or as- cending, or the lower spreading, forming a roimd-topped tree. The white bark is about 12 mm. thick. The twigs are stout, green and slightly hairy, becoming gray or white, with large lea
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