290 DROSEREiE — LAURINE^E. 



Petals 5, convolute in bud. Stamens 5, bypo^ynous. Styles mostly 3, 

 eacb 2-parted, tbe filiform or clavate forks stigmatose down tbe inner side. 

 Capsule oblong, 1-celled, with 3 parietal placentae, 3-valved. Seeds go , 

 small. 



1. D. rotnudifolia, Linn. Sp. PL i. 281 (1753). Leaves spreading; 

 the rounded blade 2 — 6 lines broad, abruptly narrowed to the slender 

 petiole: scape 3 — 6 in. high, f ew-fiowered : petals oblong, 2 lines long, 

 little exceeding the oblong sepals: styles very short: capsule included 

 in the calyx: seeds linear, with a loose testa. — In cold swamps of the 

 mountains, from Mendocino Co. northward; also in the Sierra. 



2. D. Anglica, Huds. Fl. Angl. 135 (1798). Leaves ascending, cuneate- 

 oblong, narrowed to the slender petiole: scape sometimes forked at the 

 tip, f ew-fiowered : petals linear-oblanceolate, 3 — 4 lines long, nearly twice 

 as long as the oblong sepals : capsule exceeding the calyx : seeds linear, 

 with loose testa. — In the Sierra Nevada northward, Leimnon. 



Oedek xlix. L a U R I N E >E . 



Ventenat, Tableau du Eegne Vegetal, ii. 245 (1799). 



An extensive and important family of aromatic trees and shrubs. We 

 have but one species. 



1. UMBELLULARIA, Nuliall (Califoknta Laurel). Arborescent, 

 evergreen. Leaves alternate, petiolate, coriaceous, entire, exstipulate, 

 highly odoriferous. Flowers perfect, in peduncled terminal and axillary 

 ■small capitate umbels; these in bud enclosed within an involucre of 

 about 4 broad caducous bracts. Perianth with no tube; segments 6, the 

 3 outer enfolding the others, all deciduous. Stamens 9; the outer series 

 (6) spreading, the inner (3) erect and near the pistil; a circle of 6 stout 

 short-stipitate glands intervening between the 2 series; anthers 4-celled, 

 the cells of the outer series introrse, those of the inner extrorse. Fruit 

 drupaceous, inserted on the enlarged and thickened base of the calyx. 



1. U. Californica, Nutt. Sylv. i. 87 (1842); Mez, Laur. 482 (1889); 

 H. & A. Bot. Beech. 1.59 (1840), under Telranthem; Nees, Syst. 463 (1836), 

 under Oreodapliue. Tree 10 — 75 ft. high, the growing twigs and the 

 inflorescence very minutely puberulent : leaves oblong-lanceolate, 2 — 4 in. 

 long, short-petioled, bright green and shining: peduncles Jg — 1 in. long; 

 pedicels of the 5 — 10 flowers 1 — 5 lines; involucral bracts imbricate: 

 sepals yellowish-green, IVg — 2 lines long, oblong: drupes on stout pedun- 

 cles, ovoid or subglobose, about 1 in. long, dark purple, the pulp and 

 putamen thin. — Common throughout the State, chiefly along streams in 

 the mountains "and among the hills; the foliage pungently aromatic. 



