220 STORAX FAMILY. 



inserted (,n the tube of the corolla : anthers turned inwards. Berry edible 

 when very ripe, plum-like, frlohnhir, surrounded at base l.v the per-Ntent 

 thickish calyx. Fl. early summer. 



D. Virginiana, COMMON P. Southern New England to Illinois and S. : 

 tree 20-60 hi^h, with very hard blackish wood, nearly smooth tliickish ovate 

 leaves, very short peduncles, 4-parted calyx, pule yellow 4-cleft corolla, 4 stvlcs 

 2-lobed at tip, s-eclled ovary, and plum-like fruit green and very acerb, but yel- 

 low, sweet, and eatable after frost. 



67. SAFOTACE^I, SAPPODILLA FAMILY. 



Mainly tropical trees or shrubs, with hard wood, and in other 

 respects also resembling the last family, but mostly with milky 

 juice, perfect flowers, anthers turned outwards, erect ovules, and 

 Lony-coated seeds. Represented S. by a few species of 



1. BUMELIA. (Ancient name of a kind of Ash, transferred to this penus.) 

 Flowers Mnall, white or whitish, in clusters in the axils of the leaves. Calvx 

 "parted. Corolla 5-eleft, and with a pair of internal appenda-o between the 

 lobes, 5 jjood stamens before them, and as many petal-like Sterile ones or 

 scales alternating. Ovary o-celled, hairy : Style 1, pointed. Fruit cherrv- 

 likc, containing a single lanre stony-coated seed. Small trees or shrubs, wiib 

 branches often spiny, and deciduous but thickish leaves entire. Fl. summer: 

 fruit purple or blackish. Natives of river-banks, <!ic. 



B. lycioides, from Virginia to Illinois and S., is smooth, with oliovatc- 

 oblongor lance-wedge-shaped leaves -2' -4' I'm-, and Lrn-eni-h (lowers. 



B. tenax, still more southern, has smaller leaves brown-silky underneath, 

 and a shorter white corolla. 



B. Ianugin6sa, in dry soil from S. Illinois S. ; has leaves rusty-hairv or 

 woolly beneath, and white corolla. 



68. STYRACACE^, STORAX FAMILY. 



Shrubs or trees, \vilh alternate simple leaves, perfect flowers with 

 4-8 petals more or less united at the base, and bearin.-r twice as 

 many or indefinitely numerous partly iiionadelphous or polyadel- 

 phous stamens, only one style, and a l-5-celled 1 -5-seeded fruit. 

 Ovules as many as 2 in each cell. Calyx in ours coherent more or 

 less with the 2-4-celled ovary. 



1 STVK'AX. Flowers from the axils of the leaves white, showy, on droopin- pe- 

 duncles. Calyx scarcely 5-tOOthed, il> base, coherent merely with the base ..' 

 lll(1 8-celled many-ovuled ovary. Corollaopen bell-shaped, mostly 6-parted 



rather downy OUtside. Stamens twice OS many as the io lies,, C the corolla, 

 with flat filaments monadelphoua at base, and' linear anthers. Fruit drv, 

 l-celled, with usually only one globular hard-coated seed at it- base. 

 IALESIA Flowers in fasoiclea <m han-ini: pedicels from the axils of the 



deciduous leave- of the preeediiiu' year, white, showy. Calvx 4-tu.ithed. tllO 

 tube wholly coherent with the 2 -4-CCUed ovary. 1'etals .(.'or united into a 



haped corolla. Stamens S-10: filaments monadelphoua at the I 

 anthers linear-oblong. Ovules 4 in each cell. Fmit \:u-^ and drv, 2-4- 

 Winged, within bony or woody and 1 - 4-eclled, a sinde seed filliiV each 

 slender cell. 



3. SYMPLOCOS. Flowor* yellow, in the axils of the thickish leaves, not droop- 

 Calyx 5-cleft, coherent with the lower part of the 3-eelIed ovary. 

 Petals ',. broad, nearly separate. Stamens very many in 5 clusters, one 

 attached to the. base i each petal: filaments verv slemler : anthers vcrv 

 wort Fruit l-celled, 1-sc-eded, small and drv. 



