MONAI>ELPHlA. POLTANBRIA. 83 



in Tennessee. 2. rliptera. Round Savannah In Georgia, 

 but scarce. 3. parvijlora. Scarcely distinct Irom No. 1. 

 Hae. In Georgia. 



A North Vmerican genus. 



482. STYRAX. L. (S^orax.) 



Calix rampanulate, mostly 5 -toothed, inferior. 

 Coro//« (loeply 5 to 7-|)artecl, inserted upon the 

 calix. Drupe (theca?) coriaceous, containing 

 1 or 2, 1 -seeded ndts. (^Stamina 6 to 16, aris- 

 ing from the orifice of the corolla, coalescing at 

 the base. Jnthers oblong, linear.) 



Trees or shrnbs; leaves entire, witiiout stipules; flow- 

 ers axillary and terminal, solitary or racemose, white. 

 (Corolla nearh' divided to the base, segments spreading 

 or revolute; filaments enlarged, pubescent and uniting at 

 the base; st\ le simple exserted; tiieca trifid, nut marked 

 with 3 converging lines. Embryon flat, inclosed in a car- 

 nose perisperm, radicle inferior. Pubescence stellate, as 

 in the Malvace^.) 



Species. \. S.grandlfollicm. 2. pulvernlentum. 3. gla- 

 h'um. 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 naturahzed probaJ:>ly in Italy, the 

 secon<l, S. Benzoin, wluch affords the resin so called, is 

 spontaneous in Sumat a. 



483. HO PEA. L. (Yellow-leaf.) 



Calix 5-cleft, superior. Petals 5. Stamina 

 many, connate in 5 bodies. Style 1. Fruit a 

 drupe of 3 cells; (2 of the cells often abortive.) 



A tree with entire alternate leaves; flowers axillary, fas- 

 ciculated, earlier than the leaves. 



Species. 1. H. tinctoria. Tlie leaves, which are of a 

 sweetish taste, afford a yellow die which is auginented 

 to red m an infusion of tl)e flowers of several species of 

 Coreopsis. — The only species of the genus, including a di>> 

 tinct low and fruticose variety. 



484. GORDONIA. L, 



Calix simple, 5-leavcd. Fctais 5, connate at 



