. 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. 728' Naked Stopper II. NAKED STOPPER GENUS ANAMOMK GRISEBACH Species Anamomis dicrana (Berg) Britton Eugenia dicrana Berg. Anamomis dichotoma Sargent, not Myrtus dichotoma Poiret HIS evergreen tree is also laiown as Nakedwood. It is a low, aro- matic tree or shrub of sandy or rocky soil of peninsular Florida, and the Keys, attaining a maximum height of 8 meters, with a trunk diameter of dm. The bark is about 3 mm. thi
. 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. 728' Naked Stopper II. NAKED STOPPER GENUS ANAMOMK GRISEBACH Species Anamomis dicrana (Berg) Britton Eugenia dicrana Berg. Anamomis dichotoma Sargent, not Myrtus dichotoma Poiret HIS evergreen tree is also laiown as Nakedwood. It is a low, aro- matic tree or shrub of sandy or rocky soil of peninsular Florida, and the Keys, attaining a maximum height of 8 meters, with a trunk diameter of dm. The bark is about 3 mm. thick, close, peeling off in thin scales of a red or red- dish brown color. The twigs are round and slender, hairy and reddish at first, soon becoming smooth and brown. The leaves are opposite, quite leathery, oblong or obovate, 2 to 4 cm. long, blunt or rarely sharp- pointed, tapering at the wedge- shaped base to the short petiole, entire, revolute and somewhat thickened on the margin, hairy when unfolding, soon becoming smooth and bright green, with small dark dots and impressed midrib above, paler and punctate beneath. The flowers appear in spring in the leaf-axils, in hairy peduncled cymes of usually 3 flowers, the terminal flower sessile, the 2 to 6 lateral flowers on pedi- cels 5 to 12 mm. long; the flowers are about 8 mm. across, perfect, white; the calyx obovoid, hairy, its 4 lobes ovate and rounded; petals inserted imder the thick disk, about twice the length of the calyx-lobes, ovate and glan- dular; stamens inserted with the petals, numerous, their filaments thread-Uke; anthers versatile; ovary mostly 4-celled; ovules numerous; style filiform, exserted. The fruit is berry-like, oval or subglobose, 6 to 7 mm. long, red, the calyx-lobes persistent; the flesh is thin and dr)'ish; seed usually i, rarely 2, kidney-shaped, brown. The wood is hard, close-grained, light brown or reddish; its specific gravity is about The genus is a West Indian one, containing in all about
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