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62 LINACEJX. (FLAX FAMILY.) 
BITTER-SWEET ORANGE (C. VULGARIS, Risso) is completely naturalized 
in some portions of South Florida. 
The PRIDE or INDIA, or Carna-Tree (MELIA AzEpERACH, L.) belongs 
to the allied Order MELiACEx. 
ORDER 28. CEDRELACEZ. (Manuocawxy Famity.) 
Lofty trees, with hard and colored wood, pinnate exstipulate leaves, and 
regular hypogynous panicled flowers. — Sepals 3—5, often more or less 
united. Petals 3—5, convolute in the bud. Stamens twice as many as 
the petals, distinct or united into a tube, and inserted with the petals into 
an hypogynous disk. Ovary 3 — 5-celled, with few or many ovules in each 
cell. Style single. Capsule woody, 3-5-celled, 3 — 5-valved, the valves 
at length separating from the thick angular or winged axis. Seed anatro- 
pous, winged. Albumen fleshy or none. Cotyledons leafy. — 
1. SWIETENIA, L. MamnocaNr. 
Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 5. Stamens 10, united into a 10-toothed tube, which 
encloses the 10 anthers. Style short. Stigma 5-rayed. Capsule 5-celled, 
5-valved, with the numerous suspended seeds imbricated in two rows. — A large - 
tree, with hard reddish-brown wood. Leaves alternate, abruptly pinnate. Leaf- 
lets 6-10, opposite, entire, ovate-lanceolate, unequal at the base. Flowers 
greenish-yellow, in axillary panicles. Capsule ovate, as large as an Orange. 
i. 8. aos Toe South Florida. 
ORDER 29. LINACEÆ. (Frax Faxirr.) 
Chiefly herbs, with entire exstipulate leaves, and regular hypoeynous 
racemose or panicled flowers. — Sepals 4 — 5, imbricated in the bud, per- 
sistent. Petals 4—5, convolute in the bud, deciduous. Stamens 4-5, 
united at the base. Styles 4 —5, rarely united. Capsule globose, splitting 
into five 2-seeded earpels, which are more or less perfectly 2-celled and 
2-valved. Seeds anatropous, suspended. Cotyledons flat. 
l LINUM, L. Frax. ; 
Sepals, petals, stamens, and styles 5. Capsule partly or completely 10-celled, 
the cells 1-seeded ; seeds compressed, oily. — Stems slender. Leaves narrow 
and mostly alternate. Peduncle 1-flowered, borne above or opposite the leaves. _ 
1. L. Virginianum, L. (Witp Frax.) Leaves lanceolate, acute, the — 
lower ones opposite and obtuse ; flowers scattered in corymbose racemes ; sepals - 
smooth, ovate, acute ; styles distinct; capsule depressed-globose, 10-celled. — 
Varies with glandular sepals, larger globose-ovate capsules, and linear leaves. — i 
Sterile soil, Florida and northward. July. y eri n x: 
