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2. STUARTIA, Catesb. 
Sepals 5-6, silky, 1-2-bracted. Petals 5 — 6, obovate, crenulate, silky. Sta- 
mens united into a ring at the base, and adnate to the base of the petals. Ovary 
5-celled, with two anatropous ovules in each cell. Styles 5, distinct or united. 
Capsule ovoid, woody, 5-valved ; the cells 1 — 2-seeded. — Shrubs, with alternate 
leaves, and large white or cream-colored flowers on short axillary peduncles. 
$ 1. Sruartia.— Styles united : capsule globose : seeds not margined. 
1. S. Virginica, Cav. Sepals 5, roundish; petals 5, round-obovate ; 
leaves oval, thin, serrulate, finely pubescent. (S. Malachodendron, Z.) — Shady 
woods, Florida to North Carolina, and westward. April and May.— Shrub 8°- 
12° high. Flowers 2’—3’ wide. Stamens purple. 
§ 2. MaraCHODENDRON. — Styles separate: capsule ovate, acuminate: seeds 
margined. 
2. S. pentagyna, L’Her. Sepals and petals 5-6, the latter obovate, with 
jagged edges ; leaves oval, acute. — Mountains of Georgia and North Carolina. 
May -July. — Shrub similar to the preceding, the leaves and flowers rather 
larger, and longer stamens. 
Orver 26. OLACACEJE. (Xesta FanrLY.) eh 
Trees or shrubs, with alternate entire. petioled. and exstipulate leaves, 
and regular hypogynous perfect or polygamous flowers, in axillary ra- 
cemes or corymbs. — Calyx truncate or 4—5-toothed, persistent. Petals 
4 — 5, distinct or partly united, valvate in the bud. Stamens mostly twice 
as many as the petals, and inserted into their bases: anthers introrse. 
Ovary 1-4-celled. Ovules few, anatropous. Style single, filiform. Fruit 
drupaceous, often surrounded with the enlarged calyx, 1-celled, 1-seeded. 
Embryo straight in the axis of fleshy albumen. 
l XIMENIA, Plum. 
Calyx small, 4-toothed. Petals 4, united at the base, villous within. Sta- 
mens 8. Ovary 4-celled, the cells 3-4-ovuled. Drupe baccate; not enclosed 
in the calyx. — Thorny trees or shrubs. Leaves coriaceous. Flowers axillary, 
single or corymbose. 
1. X. Americana, L. Smooth; ikä 2-3 together, oblong, obtuse, 
short-petioled ; peduncles 2-4-flowered, shorter than the leaves; petals thick, 
lanceolate, spreading above, rusty-hairy within.— Key West. — Thorns stout, 
long. Leaves X long. Flowers small, yellow. -Drape yellow, Bons as 
large as a plum. Nut white, globose. 
- ORDER. 2. -- AURANTIACES. .  (Oraxce Faxy, 
re z^ The Onance, Lemon, and LIME vepres ; 
monly cultivate INS Viii uM Udo. outl i 
