130 MYRTACEJE. (MYRTLE FAMILY.) 
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1. CALYCANTHUS, L. Sweer-scentep SHRUB. 
Calyx-tube closed, leafy-bracted ; the lobes and petals in several rows, lanceo- 
late, somewhat fleshy. Stamens deciduous. Mature fruit dry, pear-shaped, 
enclosing the large achenia. — Aromatic shrubs, with opposite or forking branch- 
es, short-petioled deciduous leaves, and large brownish-purple terminal flowers. 
1. C. floridus, L. Branchlets, petioles, and peduncles hoary-pubescent ; 
leaves oval or oblong, mostly acute or acuminate, very rough on the upper 
surface, tomentose and hoary beneath; sepals and petals linear-lanceolate, acute. 
— Banks of streams in the upper districts, North Carolina to Mississippi. April. 
— Shrub 49-8? high. Leaves 2'-3' long. Flowers 1' in diameter, very fra- 
grant. 
2. C. leevigatus, Willd. Branchlets, petioles, and peduncles pubescent 
or smoothish ; leaves oblong or elliptical, mostly acute or acuminate, rough on 
the upper surface, paler and nearly smooth beneath; sepals and petals linear- 
lanceolate, acute. (C. inodorus, Ell., leaves very rough above, but shining; 
flowers inodorous.) — Banks of streams, chiefly in the low country, Florida, 
Georgia, and westward. March and April. — Shrub 49-89 high. Leaves 2'- 
3'long. Flowers 14/ in diameter. 
3. C. glaucus, Willd. Branchlets, petioles, and peduncles smooth ; leaves 
large, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, green and roughish on the upper 
surface, smooth and glaucous beneath; flowers large, the sepals and petals lan- - 
ceolate, and abruptly sharp-pointed. — Low shady woods along the mountains — 
of Georgia and North Carolina. May and June. — Shrub 6°-8° high. Leaves 
rather rigid, 4' -7/ long. Flowers 14/~ 2' in diameter. 
"The POMEGRANATE (Pumice GnaxATUM, L.) belongs to the allied onis 
GRANATEJE. 
Orprr 50. MYRTACEZ. (Myrte Famy.) 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, simple, entire, dotted and commonly 
with an intra-marginal vein. Stipules none. — Calyx 4- 6-cleft, valvate 
in the bud, the tube adherent to the compound ovary. Petals 4- 6 
inserted with the numerous stamens on the throat of the calyx, sometimes 
wanting. Filaments long, free, or variously combined. Anthers introrse; 
roundish, longitudinally dehiscent. Style solitary. Seeds without : pense 
men, sor toa — placenta. 
L EUGENIA, Micheli. ALLSPICE. 
Calyx-tube roundish, the limb 4-cleft. Petals 4. Stamens distinct. Ovary 
ax 3-celled, with several ovules in each cll. Fruit baeeate, roundish, 1- 2«elled, 
