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C.^SALPINE^. 



[part I. 



The Kentucky Coffee-tree {Gymnodadus cana- 

 densis) is the last plant belonging to this division 

 that I shall attempt to describe. This tree is 

 called in Canada, Chicot, or the stump-tree, from 

 its having no visible buds, and thus appearing 

 like a dead stump in winter. The flowers of 

 this plant are white, and they are produced in 

 racemes, but they bear no resemblance to the 

 pea flowers, having rather a star-like appear- 

 ance, like those of the Jasmine (see Jig. 19). 



The calyx {a) is tubu- 

 lar ; and the upper 

 part or limb is divid- 

 ed into five parts (Z>), 

 which alternate with 

 the petals of the 

 corolla (c). There 

 kkntl'cky are ten stamens, but 

 they are completely 

 enclosed in the tube of the calyx. The pod is 

 very large, the valves becoming hard and bony 

 when dry ; and the seeds are like large beans, 

 the pod being deeply indented between the seeds. 

 The leaves are bi-pinnate, with from four to 

 seven pairs of pinnse ; the lower having only 

 one small leaflet, but the rest bearing from six 

 to eight pairs of leaflets each. This tree mu^t 

 not be confounded with the true Coffee-tree, 

 which belongs to Rubiaceae, and from which it is 



19.— Flowers of thi 

 coffke-tree. 



