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in Tennessee. 2. diptera. Round Savannah in Georgia, 
but scarce. 3, parvifora. Scarcely distinct from No. 1. 
Hae. In Georgia. 
_ A North American genus. 
482, STYRAX. L. (Storax.) 
Calix campanulate, mostly 5-toothed, inferior. 
Corolla deeply 5 to 7-parted, inserted upon the 
calix. Drupe (theca?) coriaceous, containing 
lor 2, 1-seeded nuts. (Stamina 6 to 16, aris- 
ing from the orifice of the corolla, coalescing at 
the base. .Anthers oblong, linear.) 
Trees or shrubs; leaves entire, without stipules; flow- 
ers a and terminal, solitary or racemose, white. 
(Corolla nearly divided to the base, segments spreading 
or revolute; filaments enlarged, pubescent and uniting at 
the base; style simple exserted; theca trifid, nut marked 
with 3 converging lines. Embryon fiat, inclosed in a car- 
nose perisperm, radicle inferior. Pubescence stellate, as 
in the Manvacez.) 
Species. 1. S. grandifolium. 2. ‘Sitatrulannen: 3. gla- 
jum. Stamina from 10 to 14. By much the most ele- 
gant and ornamental. All the North American species 
have the calix 5-toothed. 
Of this genus there are 2 other species; one of them in- 
digenous to Syria and naturalized probably in Italy, the 
second, 8S. Benzoin, which affords the resin so called, is 
spontanous in Sumatra. 
483, HOPEA. L. (Yellow-leaf.) 
Calix 5-cleft, superior. Petals 5. Stamina 
many, connate in 5 bodies. Style 1. Fruita 
drupe of 3 cells; (2 of the cells often abortive.) 
A tree with entire alternate leaves; flowers axillary, fas- 
ciculated, earlier than the leaves. = + 
Spectres. 1. H. tinctoria. The leaves, which are of a 
sWeetish taste, afford a yellow die which is augmented 
to red in an infusion of the flowers of several species of 
Coreopsis.—The only species of the genus, including a dis- 
tinct low and fraticose variety. 
- GORDONIA. EL 
elle simple, 5-leaved. Petals 5, Gieaste at ae 
