. 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. 584 Gumbo Limbo I. GUMBO LIMBO GENUS SIMAEOUBA AUBLET Species Simarouba medicinalis Endlicher IMAROUBA (the name aboriginal for the type species, S. amara Aublet in Guiana) includes some lo species of resinous evergreen trees with alternate odd-pinnate leaves, natives of tropical and subtropical America. Their small flowers are numerous in large panicles, the pistillate ones succeeded by small drupes. Gumbo Limbo, known a
. 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. 584 Gumbo Limbo I. GUMBO LIMBO GENUS SIMAEOUBA AUBLET Species Simarouba medicinalis Endlicher IMAROUBA (the name aboriginal for the type species, S. amara Aublet in Guiana) includes some lo species of resinous evergreen trees with alternate odd-pinnate leaves, natives of tropical and subtropical America. Their small flowers are numerous in large panicles, the pistillate ones succeeded by small drupes. Gumbo Limbo, known also as Bitter-wood, Paradise tree, and on the Bahama islands as Ash, inhabits southern Florida, the Bahamas and Jamaica, and probably occurs also on Cuba; it has been confused, however, with the similar Cuban Simarouba glaiica de Candolle. It attains a maximum height of about 17 meters, with a trunk up to s dm. in diameter. The bark is thick, reddish brown and somewhat scaly; the young twigs are green and smooth, turning reddish brown. The leaves are 3 dm. long or less, composed of about 13 leaflets or fewer, the leaf-axis slender and round, the leaf-stalk long; the leaflets are oblong to oblong-obovate, leath- ery in texture, 4 to 8 cm. long, blimt or blimtly pointed, entire-margined, very bright green and strongly shining on the upper side, pale and dull beneath, smooth or with some minute hairs, the two surfaces contrasting very strongly in color and luster. The panicles of flowers are often as long as the leaves, the flowers borne 2 to 6 together or singly sdong the branches on very short stalks; the flowers are about 10 mm. broad when expanded and have 5 very short ovate sepals and 5 ovate to oblong-lanceolate yellowish petals; the staminate ones have 10 stamens, each with a toothed scale at the base of the fila- ment; the pistillate ones have a deeply s-lobed ovary with 5 recurved styles, which ripens into 5 or fewer red or purple oval drupes about 2 cm. long. The bark yi
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