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ICOSANDRIA, MONOGYNIA, 
Petals 4 or 5, Stigma 4-clett 
celled, many-seeded, 
Shrubs with opposite i 
, Site’ or terminal, partly spi ad Or oe mbose, white, each 
of them bracteolate.. ( Fruit fhe La inVest- — 
ed by the calix; separable into 4 or 5parts, each part bav- 
ing a dorsal cleft and inflected | 
inwards towards the base.) = 
Species. 1. P. inodorus, 2. Lewisii. Pu. 3. ner 
Sarus. 4.°* hirsutus. Style and stigma undivided; leaves 
_ oblong-ovate acute, sharply and angularly denticulate, up- 
per side. hirsute, the under whiteish and hirsutely villous; 
b ts about 3-flowered; peduncle bibracteate near the 
2 4 summit. Has. On the rocky banks of French Broad river, 
Tennessee, near the Warm Springs, abundant. Oxs. A 
smaller shrub than any of the preceding with slender yir- 
gate Lie gears Petals almost ated Re. sents amare 
or broad oval, obtuse, most oblig t ar- 
ginate, pure eet opetand of the ealix subsemiovate, a- 
cute, and villous; style shorter than the spmisien sens simple, — 
sigma clavate, undivided, 4-zrooved. _ 
A North American genus, with the exception of P. cos 
ronarius. 
$80. CHRYSOBALANUS. Z. (Cocoa Plum.) 
Calix 5-clelt, inferior. Petals 5 Siyle late- 
ral, Dyrupe prunjform; nut. s-grooved, ‘S-valv- 
ed, 1-seeded. 
Arborescent or Zushedtibone, leaves entire, atinulates * 
flowers paniculately ecernase, axillary andterminal; drupe 
margins which arevunited Ps 
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4 the dows of the panicle are almost uniform: — 
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