EBENACEZ, (EBONY FAMILY.) 273 
2. CLIFTONIA, Banks Tir. 
Calyx minute, composed of 5-8 scale-like persistent sepals. Petals 5-8, 
obovate, concave, short-clawed, spreading. Stamens mostly 10, in 2 rows; the 
filaments erect, thick, contracted above the middle; those opposite the petals 
longer: anthers round. Stigma sessile, 3—4-lobed. Drupe dry, 3 - 4-winged, 
3-4-celled, with a single linear seed in each cell .— A shrub or small tree. 
Leaves oblong, smooth, and somewhat glaucous. Racemes terminal, many- 
flowered, with leafy deciduous bracts. Drupes nodding. 
1. C. ligustrina, Banks. (Mylocarium, Willd.) — Pine-barren ponds and 
swamps, Florida, and the lower districts of Georgia, westward. March and 
April.— Leaves 2' Jong. Racemes 2/-4! long. Flowers white, fragrant. 
3. ELLIOTTIA, Muhl 
Calyx minute, 4-sepalous. Petals 4, oblong-linear, slightly adhering at the 
base. Stamens 8, included: anthers sagittate, thickened at the apex. Style 
slender, slightly exserted: stigma capitate. Ovary 4-celled, the cells many- 
ovuled. Fruit unknown. — A smooth shrub, 4° — 10° high. Leaves elliptical- 
lanceolate, acuminate at each end, glaucous beneath. Racemes terminal, bract- 
less, simple or compound. 
1. E. racemosa, Muhl. —- Near Waynesboro’, Georgia, Elliott, — June. 
Orper 81. EBENACER. (Esony Faurx.) 
Trees or shrubs, with watery juice. Leaves alternate, entire, without 
stipules. Flowers polygamous; the sterile cymose ; the fertile ones larger, 
solitary. — Calyx free from the 3— 12-celled ovary, persistent, 3 — 7-lobed. 
Corolla 3 — 7-lobed, imbricated in the bud, deciduous. Stamens mostly 16, 
inserted on the base of the corolla, often united by pairs; the filaments 
short and hairy: anthers introrse. Ovules 1 — 2 in each cell, anatropous, 
Suspended. Styles distinct, or united below. Fruit baccate, roundish, 
few-seeded ; the seeds large, compressed. Embryo in the axis of hard 
albumen. Radicle superior. on 
; 1. DIOSPYROS, L. Persimmon. 
Calyx 4-6-lobed. Corolla bell-shaped, 4-6-cleft. Stamens in the sterile 
mostly 16; in the fertile 8, with the anthers sterile. Styles 2 or 4, united - 
below. Ovules solitary in the cells. Berry 4-8-seeded. 
l. D. Virginiana, L. Leaves ovate-oblong, mostly smooth, petioleds; = 
calyx 4-parted ; corolla 4-cleft; styles 4, each 2lobed ; ovary 8-celled. — Wi 
. =A old fields, Florida to Mississippi, and northward. May and June. 
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