THYMELEAGCEX. (MEZEREUM FAMILY.) 395 
large shrub, with numerous spreading and forked branches. Leaves somewhat 
coriaceous, 3! - 1! long. 
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5. CASSYTA, L. 
Flowers perfect. Calyx 6-cleft, persistent, the exterior lobes minute. Sta- 
mens 12, in 4 rows, the inner row sterile: anthers 2-celled, the inner ones 
extrorse, the outer introrse. Style very short: stigma disk-like. Fruit enclosed 
in the fleshy persistent tube of the calyx.— A leafless parasitic plant, with 
twining filiform stems, and spiked flowers. 
1. C. filiformis, Miller. — South Florida. — Spikes 2—4-flowered. Calyx- 
lobes thick, triangular, acute, Anthers oval, obtuse. 
Orper 112. THYMELEACEZE. (MzzrnEUM FAMILY.) 
Shrubs, with acrid juice, tough bark, simple entire dotless leaves, with- 
out stipules, and regular perfect flowers, with a tubular or bell-shaped 
4—5-cleft rarely entire calyx. Stamens commonly twice as many as the 
calyx-lobes, in 2 rows: anthers 2-celled, opening lengthwise. Style sim- 
ple: stigma capitate. Drupe with a single suspended anatropous seed, - 
containing little or HO a! Cotyledons Dives Radicle 
superior. 
1, DIRCA, L. LEATHERWOOD. 
Calyx bell-shaped, entire, or obscurely 4-toothed. Stamens 8, unequal, ex- 
Srted. Style filiform. Albumen none.— A low branching shrub, with alter- 
nate petioled oblong or obovate at length smooth and deciduous leaves, and 
light yellow flowers, from hairy buds, appearing before the leaves. 
1. D. palustris, L.— Shady banks of streams, Florida, and northward. 
Feb. and March. — Shrub 2°-3° high, with pale spreading jointed branches. 
Leaves 2! long, silky when young. Flowers three in a cluster, on short mm 
Drupe small, red. 
Onpzg 113. SANTALACEJE. (SawpALwoop FAMILY.) 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with simple entire exstipulate leaves. — Calyx 
tubular, 4 — 5-cleft, valvate in the bud, the tube coherent with the ovary. 
4 — 5, opposite the lobes, and inserted on the fleshy disk at their 
base: anthers introrse, opening lengthwise. Ovary 1-celled, with 2-4 — 
anatropous ovules suspended from the apex of the free central placenta. — 
Style single. Fruit. 1-seeded. eee gauged opious | 
