252 OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ximenia, 
and subdivisions a little hairy. Bractes minute, Flow- — 
ers numerous, small, white. | Calyx small, four-toothed. 
Petals four, oval, spreading, concave, inserted by claws, 
nectary a large fleshy receptacle, contracted at the mid- 
dle, the lower swelling receiving the petals, and filaments, 
the upper supporting the germ, Filaments eight, below 
very much enlarged, with their insides concave to receive 
the corresponding convexity of the germ and nectary;_ 
they are shorter than the coro]. Anthers oval. Germ four- 
sided. Style thick, four-sided, straight, the length of the ~ 
stamens. Stigma truncated, obsoletely four-pointed., Ber- 
ry as in the genus. La 
The leaves when bruised smell like sassafras. 
XIMENIA. 
Calyx four-toothed. Corol four-petalled, hairy on the 
inside, and revolute, forming a bell, ree superior ; one- 
seeded. : ; perce 
1. X. americana. Willd, 2. 330. é 
Shrubby, armed. Leaves alternate, oval, emarginat 
Peduncles many-flowered. AH 
_ Teling. Oora-nechra. pad 
A large, ramous, thorny shrub, a native of forests, ani 
mountains. It flowers about the beginning of the hot 
season. Trunk and branches irregularly disposed. Bark 
scabrous, inwardly red, and very astringent. Thorns 
axillary, or terminating the branchlets, single, large, 
bearing leaves, flowers, and sometimes smaller thorns. 
Leavesalternate, short-petioled, oval,emarginate, smooth, 
about. two inches long, and one broad. Racemes ee 
or from the extremities of small branchlets, one, two, OF 
three together, small, erect, each bearing, generally, fiom 
four to six flowers,  Peduncles and pedicels round, 
smooth, Bractes small, single. Flowers of a dull white, 
