Calycanthus. CALYCANTHACEiE. 475 



Order L. CALYCANTIIACEiE. Lindl 



Sepals and petals indefinite, confounded, combined in a fleshy 

 tube : estivation imbricated. Stamens indefinite, inserted on the 

 fleshy border at the mouth of the tube, the inner sterile : anthers ad- 

 nate, extrorse. Ovaries several, with a terminal style, inserted on 

 the inner surfixcc of the concave disk or torus which lines the tube of 

 the calyx : ovules solitary, or 2 one above the other, ascending. 

 Achenia enclosed in the fleshy tube of the calyx, 1-seeded. Seed 

 solitary, anatropous, without albumen. Cotyledons convolute. — 

 Aromatic shrubs (natives of North America and Japan) ; the stems 

 at length having four imperfect external axes of growth. (Cf. 

 Mirhcl, in aim. sci. not. 14, t. 13.) Leaves opposite, scabrous, en- 

 tire, without stipules. Flowers axillary and terminal, solitary. 



1. CALYCANTHUS. Linn. ; Lam. ill. t. 445; Lindl. hot. reg. (1819.) 



Lobes of the calyx imbricated iu several series, lanceolate, colored, all 

 more or less coriaceous or flesh}'. Stamens unequal, deciduous, about 12 

 of the outer ones fertile. — Shrubs (North American); the bark and leaves 

 exhaling a camphoric odor. Flowers lurid purple, expanding after the 

 leaves. — Carolina Allspice. Sweet-scented Shrub. 



1. C.Jloridus (Linn.) : leaves oval or ovate-lanceolate, often pubescent or 

 tomentosc beneath ; peduncles very short. 



a. leaves oval, mostly acute or acuminate, tomentose beneath,, as well as 

 the branchlets ; branches spreading. — C. floridus, Linn. ! spec. cd. 2. p. 718 ; 

 Bot. mag. t. 503 ; Michx. ! jl.l. p. 305 ; Willd. ! hart. Berol. 1. p. 80 ; 

 Nutt.! gen. l.p. 312,- Ell. sk. 1. p. 576; Guimp. Otto, Sf Hayne, Jiolz. L 

 4 ; DC. prodr. S. p. 3. C. sterilis, Walt. 



/3. inoclorus : " segments of tlie calyx linear-lanceolate, pubescent ; leaves 

 lanceolate, scabrous and shining on the upper, smooth on the lower surface ; 

 branches expanding." Ell. — C. inodorus. Ell. sk. 1. p. 576. 

 ^ y. lievigatus : leaves oblong or ovate-lanceolate, gradually acute or acu- 

 'minate, glabrous beneath; branches erect. — C. leevigatus, Willd.! hort. 

 Berol. t. 80 ; Nutt. ! gen. 1. p. 312 ; Ell. I. c. ; Chiimp. Otto, 4- Hayne, 

 I. c. t. 6 ; DC. I. c. C. feitilis, Walt. C. ferax, Michx.! I. c. (Varies with 

 the leaves scabrous and sometimes almost smootli above.) 

 .i-^^. glaucus : leaves oblong or ovate-lanceolate, gradually aeuniinate, glau- 

 cous and glabrous or somewhat pubescent beneath ; branches spreading. — 

 C. glaucus, Willd. ! hort. Berol. p. 80 ; Nutt. ! I. c. ; Ell. I. c. ; Gump. 

 Otto, cV Haytic, holz. t. 5 ; DC. I. c. 



Hill-sides, and in fertile soil along rivulets, Virginia ! to Georgia ! nearly 

 confined to the vicinity of the mountains (common in gardens). March- 

 June. — We have arranged tlie several -species of Willdenow and Elliott as 

 varieties of C. floridus, it ajipearing to us that they do not ofter sufficient and 

 constant characters, although they doubtless preserA'e their characteristics 



