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sided ; filaments 4-5, densely villous below the middle, longer tlinn the style in 

 the sterile Howei's, shorter in fertile ones. — Rocky banks, Florida and northward. 

 May and June. — Shrub 4°- 8° high. Leaflets^ 2' -4' long. Fruit 1' wide, 



2. P. mollis, M. A. Curtis. "Lateral leaflets oval, the terminal ob- 

 ovate, with an abrupt acute point, the under side, with the petioles, panicles, and 

 young branches, clothed with a soft whitish silky villus ; cymes compact, with 

 short branches; style long; filaments equalling the anthers." — Low country 

 of North and South Carolina (Curtis). — Leaves smaller and more rigid than 

 in No. 1, the style twice as long. Stamens 4. * 



3. P. Baldwinii, Torr. & Gray. Leaves very small, glabrous ; leaflets 

 sessile, oval, obtuse, tlic terminal one cuneiform at the base ; flowers tetrandrous ; 

 style none. — East Florida. — Shrub 1° Iiiirb, with numerous short and scraggy 

 branches. Leadets 1' long, liowcia siiiuiier tliuuiu iSo. 1. 



OuuKU 3.3. SI3IARUBACEiE. (Quassia Family.) 



Trees or sln-ubs, with Litter milky juice, pinnate cxstipulatc alternate 

 and (lotlcss K'aves, and i^egular hypogynous perfect or polygamous flowers. 

 — Calyx 4 - 5-parted or 4 - 5-tootbed, persistent. Petals 4-5, deciduous. 

 Stamens as many or twice as many as the petals, inserted on a hypogy- 

 nous disk. Ovary composed of 4 - 5 distinct or united carpels, with a sol- 

 itary aiiatropous suspended ovule in each. Fruit drupaceous, 1-seeded. 

 Seeds with a membranaceous coat. Albumen none, lladiclc superior, 

 included in the cotyledons. 



1. SIMARUBA, Aublet. Quassia. 



Flowers moncEcious or dioecious. Calyx 4 - .o-toothcd. Pctal.s 4 - .5, spread- 

 ing. Stamens 8- 10, with the filaments inserted on the back of u ciliate scale. 

 Ovaries 4-5, surrounded by 8-10 scale-like rudiments of stamens. Styles con- 

 nivent ; the stigmas spreading. Drupes 1-5. — Trees. Leaves abniptly pin- 

 nate, with alternate and entire leaflets. Flowers small, grecni.sli, in lateral and 

 terminal panicles. 



1. S. glauca, DC. Smooth throughout; flowers diwcious ; stigmas 5, 

 subulate, spreading ; leaflets 4-8, alternate and opposite, coriaceous, obovatc or 

 oblong, obtuse, paler beneath ; drupe oval, mostly solitary. — South Florida. — 

 A larjrc tree. 



Ordku on. BURSERACEiE. (ToRCii-Wooo Family.) 



Trees or slirnbs, with resinous juice, unequally pinnate or trifoliolate 

 commonly dotted leaves, and small regular flowers in axi'.lary or terminal 

 racemes or panicles. — Calyx free from the 1 - 5-celk\l sessile ovary, 

 2 - 5-Iobed, persistent. Petals 2-5, alternate with the caly.x-lobes, and 



