. 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. Balsamo 847 VI. BALSAMO GENUS PSYCHOTRIA LINN^US Species Psychotiia undata Jacquin SMALL, evergreen tree or branching shrub of wooded places along the coast of southern Florida and the Keys, and very common in the West Indies. It attains a maximum height of about 5 meters. The twigs are slender, round, usually smooth and green, becoming gray or brown-gray. The leaves are opposite, thin and leathery, oval, elliptic or eUip
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. 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. Balsamo 847 VI. BALSAMO GENUS PSYCHOTRIA LINN^US Species Psychotiia undata Jacquin SMALL, evergreen tree or branching shrub of wooded places along the coast of southern Florida and the Keys, and very common in the West Indies. It attains a maximum height of about 5 meters. The twigs are slender, round, usually smooth and green, becoming gray or brown-gray. The leaves are opposite, thin and leathery, oval, elliptic or eUiptic-lanceolate, 6 to 15 cm. long, taper-pointed at each end, dark green and shining with impressed venation above, pale, smooth or nearly so, and prominently veined beneath, the leaf-stalk stout and about i cm. long; stipules at first con-. FiG. 770. — Balsamo. spicuous, united and sheath-like, soon falling away. The flowers are usually per- fect, in open cymes, the calyx-tube i mm. long, the limb s-toothed; corolla tubu- lar, 2.5 to 3 mm. long, hairy in the throat, its lobes oblong-lanceolate, shorter than the tube; stamens 5, attached to the base of the corolla-tube, their filaments some- what imited'; anthers introrse; ovary 2-ceUed. The fruit is a bright red fleshy drupe, subglobose or ellipsoid, 4 to 4.5 mm. long, containing i or 2 prominently ribbed stones. The genus is a large tropical American one embracing about 400 species of trees or shrubs. One other species, a low branched shrub, P. tenuifolia Swartz, also occurs in Florida. The generic name is Greek, meaning vivifying, in refer- ence to the reputed stimulating properties of some of these plants. P. asiatica Linnaeus, of Jamaica, is the type of the genus, its name misleading.. 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 work.. Britton, Nathaniel