BURSERACER. (TORCH-WOOD FAMILY.) 67 
sided ; filaments 4 — 5, densely villous below the middle, longer than the style in 
the sterile flowers, shorter in fertile ones. — Rocky banks, Florida and northward. 
May and June. — Shrub 4°- 89 high. Leaflets 2’-4! long. Fruit 1' wide. 
2. P. mollis, M. A. Curtis. “Lateral leaflets oval, the terminal ob- 
ovate, with an abrupt acute point, the under side, with the petioles, panicles, and 
young branches, clothed with a soft whitish silky villus; cymes compact, with 
short branches ; style long; filaments equalling the anthers.” — Low country 
of North and South Carolina (Curtis). — Leaves smaller and more rigid than 
in No. 1, the style twice as long. “Stamens 4. 
3. P. Baldwinii, Torr. & Gray. Leaves very small, glabrous ; leaflets 
sessile, oval, obtuse, the terminal one cuneiform at the base; flowers tetrandrous ; 
style none. — East Florida. — Shrub 1° high, with Use short and scragey 
branches. Leaflets l'long. Flowers smaller than in No. 1. 
ORDER 35. SIMARUBACEZE. (Qvasst& FawiLY.) 
Trees or shrubs, with bitter milky juice, pinnate exstipulate alternate 
and dotless leaves, and regular hypogynous perfect or polygamous flowers. 
— Calyx 4 —5-parted or 4 — 5-toothed, persistent, Petals 4 — 5, deciduous. 
Stamens as many or twice as many as the petals, inserted on a hypogy- 
nous disk. Ovary composed of 4 ~5 distinct or united carpels, with a sol- 
itary anatropous suspended ovule in each. Fruit drupaceous, 1-seeded. 
Seeds with a membranaceous coat. Albumen none. Radicle superior, 
included in the cotyledons. 
1 SIMARUBA, Aublet. Quassra. 
Flowers moneecious or dicecious. Calyx 4—5-toothed. Petals 4—5, spread- 
ing. Stamens 8- 10, with the filaments inserted on the back of a ciliate scale. 
Ovaries 4 - 5, surrounded by 8-10 scale-like rudiments of stamens. Styles con- 
nivent; the stigmas spreading. Drupes 1—5.— Trees, Leaves abruptly pin- 
nate, with alternate and entire leaflets. een small, greenish, in laters: and 
porem panicles. 
1, 8. glauca, DC. Smooth throughout ; Moves dicecious ; stigmas E 
subulate, spreading ; leaflets 4-8, alternate and opposite, coriaceous, obovate or 
oblong, obtuse, paler beneath ; drupe oval, mostly solitary: — South Florida. — 
A large tree, 
_ Over 36. BURSERACEJE. TRUM O05 Fawr) i 
_ Trees or shrubs, with resinous juice, unequally pinnate or 
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