252 ocTANDRiA MONOGYNiA. Ximenia. 



and subdivisions a little hairy. Bracfes minute. Flow- 

 ers numerous, small, white. Calyx small, four-toothed. 

 Petals four, oval, spreading, concave, inserted by claws, 

 nectary a large fleshy receptacle, contracted at the mid- 

 dle, the lower swelling receiving the petals, and filaments, 

 the upper supporting the germ. Filaments eight, below 

 very much enlarged, with their insides concave to receive 

 the corresponding convexity of the germ and nectary ; 

 they are shorter than the corol. Anthers oval. Germ four- 

 sided. iS/i/Ze thick, four-sided, straight, the length of the 

 stamens. »S'<?g(w?atruncated,obsoIetely four-pointed. Ber- 

 ry as in the genus. 

 The leaves when bruised smell like sassafras. 



XIMENIA. 



Calyx four-toothed. Corol four-petalled, hairy on the 

 inside, and revolute, forming a bell. Drupe superior ; one- 

 seeded. 



1. X. americana, Willd. 2. 330. 



Shrubby, armed. Leaves alternate, oval, emarginate. 

 Peduncles many-flowered. 



Teling. Oora-nechra. 



A large, ramous, thorny shrub, a native of forests, and 

 mountains. It flowers about the beginning of the hot 

 season. Trunk and branches irregularly disposed. Bark 

 scabrous, inwardly red, and very astringent. Thorns 

 axillary, or terminating the branchlets, single, large, 

 bearing leaves, flowers, and sometimes smaller thorns, 

 ieaves alternate, short-petioled, oval, emarginate, smooth, 

 about two inches long, and one broad Racemes axillary, 

 or from the extremities of small branchlets, one, two, or 

 three together, small, erect, each bearing, generally, from 

 four to six flowers. Peduncles and pedicels round, 

 smooth. Bractes small, single. Flowers of a dull white. 



