864 CANELLACEAE 
Petals wanting. e bro 
Carpels nearly distine Stigmas dem 
Capsule opening before eae the carpels 
stellately spreading—About 10 species 
- Asiatic. 
1. F. platanifolia en es e be- 
coming 12 m. tall, EE esf Dg: 
dm . broad, eae ee 3-5 bd panicle 
HI 
VARNISH-TREE. BOTTLE-TREE.) — Roadsides 
woods, thickets, and fields, Coastal Plain, 
Fla. to Tex. and S. C. Nat. of eastern Asia 
and cult. -S r ike the Fines tree (Tri- 
adica) this Asiatie tree is extensively alae in the see ies of South 
Carolina and less abundantly within the range given abov open places 
the trunk may be widely branched, in the dense growth of. ni. colonies the 
trunks are usually pole-like. 
ORDER HYPERICALES — HYPERICAL ORDER 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves various. Flowers mostly perfect, 
complete and regular (irregular in Violaceae), sometimes involucrate. 
Calyx of distinct or essentially distinct sepals. Corolla of distinct petals 
(partially united in Fouquieriaceae), rarely wanting. Androecium of 
several united carpels. Ovary superior, mostly with parietal placentae. 
Fruit capsular, baccate, or drupaceous. 
Stamens united into a tube which surrounds or encloses m EINE 
Placentae pue CANELLACEAE. 
PIS nun Fam. 2. CLUSIACEAE. 
Stamens dn 
tyles wanting: stigmas intro 
centae axial: herbs or "Rn BUS plants. Fam. 3. ELATINACEAE. 
entae basal: shrubs or tre Fam. 4. TAMARICACEAE. 
Styles es distinc disti r i s terminal. 
BOE 
SUERA not brush-like ; endosperm little or 
Herbs or sel plants, with opposite or 
. whorled 1 am. 5. HYPERICACEAE. 
ubs or Mice. we with alternate leaves. Fam. 6. THEACEAE. 
brush-like: endosperm copious. Fam. 7. TURNERACEAE. 
Styles wholly and permanently united. 
Corolla regular. 8. CISTACEAE. 
Corolla irregular, the petals markedly. unequal 
and one of them spurred; stamens 5. Fam. 9. VIOLACEAE. 
Famiry 1. CANELLACEAE—Witp CINNAMON FAMILY 
Trees. Leaves alternate: blades entire, pellucid-punctate. Flowers 
perfect. Calyx of 3 thick imbricate sepals. Corolla of 4—12 narrow petals, 
.or wanting. Andr oecium of numerous stamens, the filaments united into 
a tube around the pistil. Gynoecium of 2-5 united earpels. Fruit a 
Dato —Five genera and 7 species, in tropical mue and Africa 
