. 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. 376 Whitewood blunt pointed, tapering or abruptly contracted at the base, entire on the margin, hght green and smooth above, sUghtly paler beneath; the leaf-stalk is short and winged. The flowers are perfect, axillary, in clusters of 2 or 3, or soUtary, pink or red; the calyx is cup-shaped, 2 mm. high, sUghtly dilated and entire-rimmed, almost filled by a fleshy disk; the corolla is leathery, narrowly bell-shaped, 4 mm. l
. 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. 376 Whitewood blunt pointed, tapering or abruptly contracted at the base, entire on the margin, hght green and smooth above, sUghtly paler beneath; the leaf-stalk is short and winged. The flowers are perfect, axillary, in clusters of 2 or 3, or soUtary, pink or red; the calyx is cup-shaped, 2 mm. high, sUghtly dilated and entire-rimmed, almost filled by a fleshy disk; the corolla is leathery, narrowly bell-shaped, 4 mm. long, 4-ribbed, smooth; the 4 lobes are sharp-pointed and revolute; the 4 stamens are adnate to the base of the corolla-lobes, anthers sessile; ovary 3-celled, mostly immersed in the disk, style short, stigma Fig. 331. —^Vllite Wood. The fruit is a scarlet ovoid or ovoid-oval drupe, 10 to 12 mm. long, almost entirely enclosed in the accrescent calyx; the seed is usually sohtary in each cell of the crustaceous stone. The genus contains about 15 species of trees or shrubs of the tropical regions of America and Asia; S. Schreberi Gmelin, of the Windward islands, is the type of the'genus. The name is in conmiemoration of Johann David Schoepf (1752-1800), a German physician and botanist, who traveled in North America and the West 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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