602 FLORA. 



i. Cotinus cotinoides (Nutt.) Britton. WILD OR AMERICAN SMOKE-TREE. 

 CHITTAM-WOOD. (I. F. f. 2354. ) A small widely-branched tree, with maximum 

 height of about 12 m. and trunk diameter of 4 dm. Leaves oval or slightly 

 obovate, thin, glabrous or sparingly pubescent beneath, 7-15 cm. long, 3.5-5 cm. 

 wide, obtuse at the apex, the blade slightly decurrent on the petiole; flowers 

 2-3 mm. broad, green; pedicels elongating to 2.5-3.75 cm. and becoming very 

 plumose in fruit; drupe reticulate-veined, 4 mm. long. Mo. and Ind. Terr, to 

 Tenn. and Ala. April-May. Nearly related to the European C. Cotinus, which 

 differs in its smaller coriaceous leaves, more pubescent, mostly rounded and 

 obtuse at base; it occasionally escapes from cultivation. 



Family 5. CYRILLACEAE Lindl. 

 Cyrilla Family. 



Glabrous shrubs, or small trees, with simple entire alternate estipu- 

 late leaves, long-persistent or evergreen, and small regular perfect bracted 

 racemose flowers. Sepals 4-8 (mostly 5), persistent. Petals the same 

 number as the sepals, hypogynous, distinct, or slightly united by their 

 bases, deciduous. Stamens 4-10, in i or 2 series, distinct, hypogynous ; 

 anthers introrse, 2 celled, the sacs longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary 

 2-5-celled ; ovules 1-4 in each cavity, anatropous, pendulous ; style short 

 or none ; stigma very small, or 2-3-lobed. Fruit dry, small, i-5-seeded. 

 Seeds oblong or spindle-shaped ; endosperm fleshy ; embryo central, 

 cylindric. Three genera and 6 known species, natives of America. 



i. CYRILLA Garden. 



Racemes clustered at the ends of twigs of the preceding season. Sepals 5, firm, 

 acute, shorter than the petals. Petals 5. white, acute, spreading. Stamens 5, 

 opposite the sepals, the filaments subulate, the anthers oval. Ovary ovoid, sessile, 

 mostly 2-celled, sometimes 3-celled; ovules 2-4 in each cavity; style short, thick, 

 2-3-lobed. Fruit ovoid, 2-3-seeded, the pericarp spongy. [In honor of Domenico 

 Cyrillo, professor of medicine at Naples.] Two species, of southeastern N. Am. 



i. Cyrilla racemiflora Walt. SOUTHERN LEATHERWOOD OR IRONWOOD. 

 (I. F. f. 2355.) A shrub or small tree, the bark at the base spongy. Leaves 

 oblanceolate, obovate or oval, cuneate-narrowed at the base, 5-10 cm. long, 

 6-25 mm. wide; racemes narrow, 5-15 cm. long, bearing the very numerous small 

 white flowers nearly to the base; pedicels 2-4 mm. long, somewhat longer than 

 the bracts, or shorter; fruit about 2 mm. long. Along streams and swamps, Va. to 

 Fla. and Tex. Also in the West Indies and S. Am. May-July. 



Family 6. ILICACEAE Lowe. 

 Holly Family. 



Shrubs or trees, with watery sap, and alternate petioled simple leaves. 

 Flowers axillary, small, white, mainly polygamo-dicecious, regular. Stip- 

 ules minute and deciduous, or none. Calyx 3-6-parted, generally per- 

 sistent. Petals 4-6 (rarely more), separate, or slightly united at the base, 

 hypogynous, deciduous, imbricated. Stamens hypogynous, as many as 

 the petals, or sometimes more ; anthers oblong, cordate. Disk none. 

 Ovary i, superior, 3-several-celled ; stigma discoid or capitate; style 

 short or none ; ovules i or 2 in each cavity. Fruit a small berry-like 

 drupe, enclosing several nutlets. Seed pendulous ; endosperm fleshy ; 

 embryo straight. Five genera and about 170 species, of temperate and 

 tropical regions. 



Petals oblong or obovate, slightly united. i. flex. 



Petals linear, distinct. 2. Ilicioidcs. 



