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tinct or variously united. Ovary 1 - many-celled, few - many-ovuled. 



Style single, often none. Fruit capsular, baccate, or drupaceous. 



Seeds without albumen. Embryo straight. Cotyledons thick, dis- 

 tinct or united. 



1. CLUSIA, L. 



Calyx 2 bracted, of 6 imbricated colored sepals. Petals 4-9. Stamens 

 numerous, the filaments united at the base into a thick and fleshy tube. Ovary 

 5-1.5-celled. Ovules numerous, fixed to a central column. Stigma large, 

 radiate-peltate. Capsule coriaceous, globose-angled, 5-1 5-celled ; the valves 

 separating from the central column at maturity. Seeds numerous, ovate. — 

 Parasitical tropical trees, with thick, opposite, entire and shining leaves, and 

 chiefly poly<^amous, cymose, showy flowers. 



1. C, flava, L. Leaves short stalked, obovate, obtuse or emarginate, 

 finely veined ; flowers polygamous, single or by threes, on short axillary and 

 terminal peduncles ; sepals rounded ; petals 4, oval, thick, yellow and unequal ; 

 stamens short and thick; stigma about 12-rayed; capsule pear-shaped, 12- 

 seeded, the seeds embedded in soft pulp. — South Florida. — A small tree. 



Order 22. CANELLACE^S:. (Caxella Family.) 



Aromatic trees or shrubs, with alternate exstipulate entire leaves, 

 and corymbose flowers. — Sepals 3, imbricated, like the 4-5 thick 

 petals. Stamens 10-20, hypogynous, united, forming an entire trun- 

 cated tube. Anthers adnate to the tube. Ovary 1-celled, the placentae 

 parietal. Fruit baccate. Embryo short, included in copious albumen. 



1. CANELLA, P. Browne. 



Sepals rounded, convex. Petals oblong, deciduous. Ovary 4-6-ovuled. 

 Stigmas 2-3. Berry globose, mostly 3-seeded, pulpy within. — A small tree. 

 Leaves obovate-oblong, coriaceous. Corymbs terminal. Flowers small, 

 purple. 



1. C. alba, Swartz. — Keys of South Florida. August. 



Order 23. CAMELLIACE^. (Camellia Family.) 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate exstipulate leaves, and regular hy- 

 pogynous polyandrous showy flowers. — Sepals and petals 5-6, imbri- 

 cated in the bud. Stamens numerous, united at the base into a ring, 

 or into sets placed opposite the petals, and adnate to their bases : an- 

 thers 2-celled, introrse. Ovary 2 -5-celled, 2 -many-ovuled. Styles 

 2-5, distinct or united. Capsule 2 -5-celled, mostly loculicidally de- 

 hiscent. Albumen scarce or none. 



