222 TERNSTRCEMIACE^. Gordonie^. 



the lop of each cell : style elongated: stigmas obtuse. Fruit baccate, with 

 4-5 cells, or by abortion fewer. Seeds solitary in each cell, surrounded with 

 mucilage. — Shrubs or trees. Leaves simple, 3-foliolate, or pinnate. W. ^ Arn. 



1. Z/. acidissima? (Linn.): leaves pinnate; leaflets roundish-oval, cre- 

 nate ; spines geminate. Nutt. in Sill. jour. 5. p. 295. L. ambigua, DC. 

 prodr. 1. p. 536. 



East Florida, collected by ]\Tr. Ware. N'liii. — The specimens collected by 

 Mr. Ware are very imperfect, and exhibit neither the flowers nor fruit. We 

 possess similar specimens of the same plant collected in Southern Florida by 

 Dr. Hassler and communicated to us by the Columbian Horticultural So- 

 ciety. The plant is probably not indigenous to Florida. Wight & Arnott 

 unite L. crenulata with L. acidissima. 



Citrus. — Wm. Bartram (in his Travels through North and Sotdh Carolina, 

 Georgia, and Florida, 1791,) makes frequent mention of extensive groves of wild 

 Orangje trees in East Florida, as far north as lat 28'^. In a notice of the town of 

 New Smyrna he observes: " I was there about 10 years ago, wiien the surveyor run 

 the lines of the colony, where there was neither habitation nor cleared field. It was 

 then a famous Orange grove, the upper or south promontory of a ridge nearly half a 

 mile wide, and stretching north about 40 miles, &c. &c. All this was one entire 

 Orange grove, with Live-Oaks, Magnolias, Palms, Red Bays, and others." Bartr. 

 I. c. note on p. 244. See also p. 253, &c. These groves seem to be well-known in 

 Florida at the present day, and are generally supposed to be indigenous. According 

 to the late Mr. Croom " they are rarely found north of lat. 29^ 30', although there 

 is a small grove near the Alligator Pond, which is somewhat nnrth of lat. oO°," 

 Croom, mss. The fruit is known by the name of Bitter-sweet Orange. 



Order XXXVII. TERNSTRCEMIACE^. Mirh. ; Kunth. 



Ternstroemiacece & Theacese, Mirb. 



Sepals 3-5, concave, coriaceous, persistent, the innermost often 

 larjj;est : aestivation imbricated. Petals mostly 5, hypogynous, alter- 

 nate with the sepals, often united at the base. Stamens indefinite, 

 inserted with the petals : filaments filiform, usually monadelphous or 

 polyadelphous at the base, often adherent to the base of the petals : 

 anthers adnate or versatile. Ovary 2-7-celled, usually sessile on a 

 discoid torus : ovules 2 or more in each cell : placentae in the axis : 

 styles 2-7, distinct or combined. Fruit 2-7-celied, capsular, baccate, 

 or coriaceous and indehiscent. Seeds usually few and large, anatropous 

 or campulitropous, v/ith or without albumen. Embryo straight or 

 curved : cotyledons often large and containing oil. — Trees or shrubs. 

 Leaves alternate, mostly coriaceous, e.xstipulate, now and then with 

 pellucid dots. Peduncles axillary and terminal. Flowers large and 

 showy. 



Tribe GORDONIE.^. DC. 



Capsule loculicidal. Seeds destitute of albumen, winged or mar- 

 gined : cotyledons foliaceous, wrinkled and plaited lengthwise Small 



