762 | SIMAROUBACEAE 
1. SURIANA [Plum.] L. Shrubs with erect stems or trees with wide- 
spreading branches, the bark flaky. Leaves numerous, fleshy. Fruits seated in 
the persistent calyx. 
1. S. maritima L. Shrub or tree 8 dm. (all, 
the woo d very hard and MuR leaves s fleshy, 
appressed- i x approximate; blades 
ny -spatulat 1. 5-4 
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ong.—(BAY-CEDAR. THATCH-LEAF,)— 
Sand- dunes and coastal ou S pen. 
Fla. and the Keys.—(W. I. )—All year. 
ne. 
chance for a long life. How wever, on the leeward side of oe yee 
from the winds and waves, plants sometimes grow to the size of tre 
Famity 11. SIMAROUBACEAE—Quassta FAMILY 
Shrubs, trees, or rarely herbs. Leaves alternate or rarely opposite: 
blades pinnately compound, 1—3-foliolate or rarely simple. Flowers polyg- 
amous, deciduous, or rarely perfect, solitary, spicate, racemose or panicu- 
late. -Calyx of 3-5 sepals. Corolla of 3-5 petals or wanting. Androecium 
is as many stamens as there are sepals or twice as many, or rarely very 
any. Gynoecium of 2-5 more or less united earpels. Ovary usually 
lobed. Stigmas mostly introrse. Fruit a a drupe or a samara, or baccate.— 
About 30 genera and 150 species, most abundant in the tropics 
Fruit drupaceous or bac 
Carpels becoming distinet, forming simple fruits: leaf-blades ecd ed 
MAROU 
Carpels Dy united, forming a compound fruit: leaf- 
blades unequally pinnate. 2. PICRAMNIA. 
Fruit samaroi 
Petals prese ent: ‘stamens 10: mature sa separate. 3. AILANTHUS. 
Petals w wanting: Stamens 5: mature carpels united. 4,. ALVARADOA, 
SIMAROUBA Aubl. Trees. Leaf- S abruptly pinnate, the leaflets 
uu Flowers monoecious or dioecious, panieulate. Sepals 4 or 9, Short. 
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9 Species, tropical American 
S. glauca DC. Tree sometim 
SO en 
yellowish: drupe oval, about 2 em. long, 
scarlet or dark-purple. — (PARADISE-TREE. 
BITTER-WOOD. )—Hammocks, near the coast, 
