64 OIIDEB 26. CAMELLIACE^E. 



TAMARIX GALLICA. Characters mainly as given in the Order. Pet. 

 and sta. 5. A beautiful shrub, lOf, with virgate branches, bearing numerous exceedingly 

 delicate racemes of flesh-colored fls. Lvs. lance-subulate, clasping. Eur. Nearly hardy 



ORDER XXV. TILIACE^E. LINDENBLOOMS. 



Trees or shrubs (rarely herbs) with simple, stipulate, alternate, dentate 

 leaves, with flowers axillary, hypogynous, usually perfect and polyadel- 

 phous ; with the sepals 4 or 5, deciduous, valvate in bud, the petals 4 or 5, 

 imbricated. Stamens GO, with 2-celled, versatile anthers. Ovary of 2 10 

 united carpels, and a compound style. Fruit diy or succulent, many-celled, 

 or 1-celled by abortion. Embryo in the axis of fleshy albumen. 



1. CORCHORUS, L. Sep. and pet. 4 or 5. Stam. oo, rarely as few 

 as the petals. Style veiy short, deciduous, stig. 2 to 5. Caps, roundish or 

 siliquose, 2-5-celled, many-seeded. ^ Flowers yellow. 



C. siliquosus L. Lvs. ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, equally serrate, 4 times longer 

 than the petioles ; caps, siliquose, linear, 2-valved. La. to Fla. Flowers 4-merous. 



2. TILIA, L. LINDEN or LIME TREE. Calyx of 5, united sepals, 

 colored. Cor. of 5, oblong, obtuse petals, crenate at apex. Stain. GO, 

 somewhat polyadelphous, each set (in the K. American species) with a 

 petaloid scale (staminodium) attached at base. Ov. superior, 5-celled, 

 2-ovuled. Caps, globous, by abortion 1-celled, 1-2-seeded. ^> Lvs. cor- 

 date. Fls. cymous, cream-white, with the peduncle adnate to the vein of 

 a large leaf-like bract. 



Staminodia 5, petaloid, opposite the petals. Leaves mucronate-serrate Nos. 1, 2 



Staminodia none. Stamens scarcely cohering No. 3 



1 T. America.ua L. Bass-wood. Lvs. broad cordate, unequal at base, acuminate, 

 coriaceous, smooth, and green on both sides ; pet. truncate or obtuse at apex ; sty. as 

 long as the petals. Woods, N. and M. States. 70f. June. Timber valuable. 



j3. Walterit Lvs. pubescent (but green) beneath. A large tree. Va. to Fla. 

 It T. heteropliylla Vent. White Bass-wood. Lvs. obliquely subcordate, scarcely 

 acuminate, white and velvety beneath, shining, and dark green above ; pet. obtuse, 

 crennlate ; sty. hairy at base, longer than the petals. River banks, W. 40f. 

 /3. alba. Lvs. whitish and minutely tomentous beneath, serratures fine and long- 



mucronate. Ky. and South along the mountains. 80f. 



3 T. ETJROPJEA L. Lime Tree. Lvs. suborbicular, obliquely cordate, abruptly acumi- 

 nate, serrulate, twice as long as the petioles, glabrous except a woolly tuft in the 

 axils of the veins beneath. Parks. 40f. t Eur. 



ORDER XXVI. CAMELLIACE^E. CAMELLIAS or TEAWORTS. 



Trees or shrubs with alternate, simple, feather-veined, exstipulate leaves. 

 Flowers regular, polyandrous, hypogynous, cyanic, with sepals and petals 

 imbricated, the former often unequal in size. Stamens more or less cohe- 

 rent at base into one, three, or five sets. Anthers 2-celled. Seeds few, with 

 little or no albumen. Cotyledons large. 



8 Calyx of many imbricated sepals. Stamens monadelphous CAMELLIA. 1 



| Calyx simple. Stamens united at the base into one set STTJARTIA. 2 



Stamens in 5 sets, adhering to the base of the petals GORDONIA. 3 



