ENNEANDREA. MONOGYNIA, = 959 
congiomerate umbeils, or conglomerate bracteate _ra- 
cemes in E. Sassafras and H. * albida.—(Filaments and 
anthers adnate; anthers 2 or, unequally, 4-celled, cells 
closed by so many vertical valves, which opening elasti- 
cally often carry up the pollen in a mass. Stamina al- 
ways 9; to the base of the 3 interior fertile stamina are at- 
tached 3 pair of short glanduloid infertile ones, destitute 
of pollen. Cotyledones of the seed, excentrically peltate, 
or laterally attached to the embryon a little above their 
base, after the manner of all the Laurin, according to. 
the observations of R. Brown.) ~ om 
§ 1. Flowers umbellate, leaves entire, 
Seecres. 3. E. estivalis. Polygamous: Leaves yenose,, 
oblong acuminate, every where smooth. 4. Benzoin, 
(Spice-bush.) Polygamous: Leaves cuneate oboval, under- 
side whitish and partly pubescent; buds. and pedicells of 
the umbells smooth. 5. Disspyrus. Dioicous; Low, surcu- 
lose, and virgate; leaves oblong-oval, under side veiny and 
pubescent; buds and pedicells villous; fruit large. Ons. 
A running twiggy shrab, 2 or 3 feet high, growing in 
Swamps; leaves opaque, attenuated towards the base; 
bud scales, purple, and as well as the yo r branches — 
villous; umbellate clusters sessile, 3 to 5-flowered; per- 
fect stamina 9; glanduloid anthers of the imperfect sta~ 
mens large, orange yellow; berries upon thick and dis- 
tinct pedicells, oblong-ovate, scarlet, larger than those of 
_E. Benzoin; cotyledones large, thick and oily, embryon 
small, laterally attached nearly at the base of the seed- 
lobes. 6. geniculata. Polygamous; Branches divaricate 
and. flexuous; leaves small, cuneate-oblong, mostly ob- 
tuse, smooth except on the under side near the base, um- 
bellets terminal, conspicuously pedicellate, smooth; an- 
ther ually 4-celled. Haz. Uniformly in sandy 
from Virginia 
or S lobed, under side prominent oes 
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