268 CORNACEAE. 



disk. Stamens as many as the petals or more numerous, 

 inserted with them; filaments subulate or flat. Ovary 

 inferior, 1-2-celled; styles 1 or 2; ovules pendulous. 

 Fruit a drupe or berry, 1-2-seeded. 



Flowers perfect; petals present. 1. Svida. 



Flowers dioecious; petals wanting. 2. Garrya. 



1. SVIDA Opiz. Dogwood. 



Shrubs or trees or rarely herbs, with simple mostly 

 entire and usually opposite, rarely verticillate leaves, 

 and small flowers in cymes or heads, the latter involu- 

 crate with large white bracts. Calyx-limb minutely 

 4-toothed. Petals 4, valvate. Stamens 4. Ovules 1 in 

 each cell. Drupe ovoid or globose, the stone 2-celled 

 and 2-seeded. 



1. S. calif ornica (C. A. Mey.) Abrams. Shrub, 2-5 m. high, with 

 smooth purplish branches; leaves ovate to oblong-elliptic, acute or 

 somewhat acuminate, shortly cuneate at base, 5-10 cm. long, paler 

 beneath and more or less pubescent with loose silky hairs, especially 

 on the veins; cyme spreading, round-topped, 3-5 cm. broad; fruit 

 white, subglobose; stone 5 mm. broad, somewhat compressed, 

 furrowed on the edges. {Cornus pubescens Nutt.) 



Occasional in moist ground, especially in the mountains, but 

 reported from Cienega by Davidson. 



The western flowering dogwood, Cynoxylon {Cornus) nuttallii 

 (Audb.) Shafer, with the flowers in heads subtended by showy white 

 involucral bracts, occurs in the coniferous forests of the San Ber- 

 nardino Mountains. 



2. GARRYA Dougl. Silk-tassel Tree. 



Evergreen shrubs with 4-angled branchlets, opposite 

 entire coriaceous leaves, the short petioles connate at 

 the base, and dioecious apetalous flowers in axillary 

 aments, solitary or in 3's between the decussately con- 

 nate bracts. Calyx of staminate flowers 4-parted, with 

 linear valvate segments. Stamens 4, with distinct fila- 

 ments. Disk and ovary none. Pistillate flowers with 

 the calyx-limb shortly 2-lobed or obsolete. Disk and 

 stamens none. Ovary 1-celled; ovules 2; styles 2, stig- 

 matic on the inner side, persistent. Berry ovoid, 1-2- 

 seeded. 



1. G. veatchii palmeri (Wats.) Eastw. An erect, branching 

 shrub, 18-25 dm. high; branchlets sparsely pubescent with close 

 appressed silky hairs when young, becoming smooth with age; 



