156 HAMAMELACEX. (WITCH-HAZEL FAMILY.) 
12. PHILADELPHUS, L. SrniGA. 
Calyx-tube turbinate, cohering with the ovary, the limb 4 — 5-parted, persist- 
ent. Petals 4-5, convolute in the bud. Stamens 20 —40, shorter than the 
petals. Styles mostly 4, more or less united. Capsule mostly 4-celled, loculi- 4 
cidally 4-valved, many-seeded. — Shrubs with simple opposite 3— 5-ribbed leaves, 
without stipules, and large white solitary or cymose flowers. 
1. P. grandiflorus, Willd. Branches and leaves pubescent; leaves 
ovate or ovate-oblong, acuminate, sharply serrate; flowers solitary, or 2 or more 
in a terminal cyme; calyx-lobes ovate, acuminate, much longer than the tube.— _ 
Banks of streams, Florida to North Carolina. April and May. — Shrub 6°-10° 
high, with long and slender branches. 
2. P. inodorus, L. Smooth; leaves entire or nearly so, ovate or ovate- 
oblong, acute; calyx-lobes ovate, acute, as long as the tube. — Upper districts 
of Alabama to South Carolina. May. — Flowers smaller than in the last. 
3. P. hirsutus, Nutt. Hairy; leaves small, ovate, acute, sharply serrate; 
flowers 1-3 together, terminal, and on short lateral branches ; calyx-lobes ovate, 
as long as the tube. — North Carolina and Tennessee, — A small shrub. Leaves 
1’ long. Flowers 4 wide. 
Orver 65. HAMAMELACE. (Wirca-Hazer F amity.) 
Trees or shrubs, with alternate leaves, deciduous stipules, and clustered 
or spiked, often polygamous or moneecious flowers. — Calyx-tube coherent 
with the base of the ovary. Petals 4— 5, long and linear, or none. Sta- 
mens twice as many as the petals, with the alternate ones sterile, or nu- — 
merous and perfect. Styles 2, Capsule woody, 2-celled, opening at the ^. 
summit. Seeds anatropous, bony, 1—2 in each cell. Embryo large and : 
straight, in scarce albumen. 
i Synopsis. 
1, HAMAMELIS. Calyx-lobes and petals 4. Fertile stamens 4. Ovules solitary in each cell, 
suspended. . ; 
2. FOTHERGILLA. Calyx 5-7-toothed. Petals none. Stamens numerous, all fertile. 
Ovules solitary, suspended. 
3. LIQUIDAMBAR. Calyx and corolla none. Flowers polygamous or moneecious, capitate- 
. Stamens numerous. Ovules several, D 
Calyx 3-3-bracted, 4-parted. Petals 4, long and linear, Stamens 8, the 
alternate ones short and sterile. Styles 2, Capsule loculicidally 2-valved at - 
the apex, the outer coat separating from the inner one, which encloses the seed, - 
on splits elastically into 2 valves. Seeds large, bony. — Shrubs. Leaves 
