Beeftree

Guapira discolor appears in the flora only along the southern coast of Florida and in the Florida Keys.

Trees or shrubs, to 15 m. Stems and buds glabrate or sparsely reddish pubescent. Leaf blades broadly to narrowly elliptic, 6-13 × 1-3 cm, fleshy-chartaceous, thin and ± papery when dry, base cuneate, apex ± acute, surfaces glabrate. Inflorescences loose, 3-7 cm; buds and branches sparsely reddish pubescent or glabrate. Flowers: staminate yellowish green; perianth widely funnelform, 3-4 mm, sparsely puberulent or glabrate; fruiting pedicel 2-3 mm. Fruits 5-8 × 2-3 mm upon drying.

Fla.; West Indies.

Flowering summer.

Hammocks, pine-scrub; 0-100m.

Pisonia discolor Sprengel, Syst. Veg. 2: 168. 1825; Guapira bracei (Britton) Little; G. floridana (Britton) Lundell; G. globosa (Small) Little; G. longifolia (Heimerl) Little

Torrubia bracei Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 614. 1904
A slender tree, 5 meters high or less, the branches stout, reddish-brown or gray, striate, the branchlets slender, yellowish, glabrous except about the nodes, there ferrugino-puberulent, the internodes short; leaves opposite, subequal, the petioles slender, 3-8 mm. long, glabrous, the blades narrowly obovate-oblong to obovate, broadest above the middle, 3-5.5 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, cuneately attenuate or long-attenuate at the base, rounded or obtuse at the apex, often retuse, deep-green, subconcolorous, dull, glabrous, the margins revolute, the lateral veins obsolete or nearly so; peduncles slender, 1-1.5 cm. long, glabrous, the inflorescence corymbose, glabrous, few-flowered, 1.5 cm. broad, the flowers sessile, the bractlets oblong, 1 mm. long, glabrous; pistillate perianth narrowly ellipsoid-oblong, 3 mm. long, slightly constricted below the apex, obtusely 5-denticulate; style slightly exserted; fruit oblong-obovoid, 7-8 mm, long, 2 mm. in diameter, claret-red.
Type w>cai,ity: Coastal coppice, Ft. Montague, New Providence, Bahamas. Distribution : In coastal thickets, Bahamas.

Torrubia discolor (Spreng.) Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 613
1904.
Pisonia discolor Spreng. Syst. 2: 168. 1825. Pisonia discolor latifolia Heimerl, Bot. Jahrb. 21: 627. 1896. Pisonia discolor intermedia Heimerl, Bot. Jahrb. 21: 627. 1896. Pisonia discolor brevipetiolata Heimerl, Symb. Ant. 7: 215. 1912.
Shrub or small tree, the branches slender, subvirgate, brown or grayish, rugulose, the branchlets slender, grayish or yellowish, sparsely ferrugino-puberulent or usually glabrous, the internodes commonly short; leaves opposite or alternate, often crowded, subequal, the petioles usually slender and 0.5-1.3 cm. long, rarely only 3 mm. long, glabrous or sparsely puberulent, the blades oblong-elliptic to oval, rarely obovate-oval or rounded-ovate, usually broadest at or below the middle, 2-6.5 cm. long, 0.7-4 cm. wide, broadly rounded to acute at the base, broadly rounded to acutish at the apex, thin, glabrous, deep-green above and lustrous, paler beneath and usually dull, the lateral veins obscure, laxly anastomosing near the margin; peduncles slender, axillary and terminal, 1-2 cm. long, glabrous or nearly so, the inflorescence
laxly paniculate or racemose, few-flowered, 1-2 cm. broad, the flowers sessile or subsessile, the bractlets ovate or oblong, minute; starninate perianth tubular-campanulate, 4—4.5 mm. long, glabrous, minutely denticulate; stamens 6-8, less than twice as long as the perianth; pistillate perianth ellipsoid-oblong, 3 mm. long or less, constricted below the apex; style longer than the perianth; fruit 5-7 mm. long, ellipsoid-oblong, scarlet, the utricle 10-striate.
Type locality: Jamaica. Distribution: Greater Antilles.

Torrubia longifolia (Heimerl) Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 614
1904.
Pisonia obtusata Chapm. Fl. S. U. S. 374. 1860. Not P. obtusata Jacq. 1798. Pisonia discolor longifolia Heimerl, Bot. Jahrb. 21: 627. 1896. Pisonia longifolia Sarg. Man. 314. 1905.
Shrub or tree, sometimes 16 meters high, the smooth trunk sometimes 5 dm. in diameter, the branches stout or slender, brownish or gray, the branchlets slender, yellowish or gray, glabrous, or ferrugino-puberulent about the nodes, the internodes usually short; leaves opposite and alternate, subequal, the petioles slender, 0.6-1.6 cm. long, glabrous, the blades narrowly oblanceolate to obovate or rounded-obovate, 2.5-6.9 cm. long, 0.7-2.8 cm. broad, cuneate or usually cuneately long-acuminate or long-attenuate at the base, broadly rounded at the apex, often emarginate, thin, glabrous, deep-green above and lustrous, slightly paler beneath and dull, the margins usually slightly revolute, the lateral veins nearly obsolete; peduncles slender, axillary and terminal, solitary or geminate, 1-3 cm. long, glabrous, the inflorescence laxly paniculate, 1-4 cm. broad, with few or rather numerous flowers, the branches slender, divaricate, glabrous or sparsely puberulent, the flowers sessile or subsessile, the bractlets oblong or ovate, 1 mm. long or less, glabrate; starninate perianth campanulate, 3-3.5 mm. long, glabrous or sparsely puberulent, the limb obtusely 5-dentate; stamens usually 6, less than twice as long as the perianth; pistillate perianth ellipsoid-oblong, 3-3.5 mm. long, glabrous, slightly constricted below the apex, 5-dentate, the teeth erect, acutish; fruit obovoid or globose-obovoid, 5--6 mm. long, red.
Type locality: Bahamas.
Distribution: In thickets, near the coast, peninsular Florida and the adjacent keys; Bahamas.