MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 



585 



A tree which sometimes on the sea-Islands obtains a height of sixty to 

 seventy feet, with a diameter of two to four feet; branches erect and expand- 

 ing; bark united but corrugate, riniose. Leaves attenuate, ovate, acuminate, 

 oWjqup at base, when old nearly glabrous; the young somewhat hairy, sca- 

 brous and entire. Petioles three to five lines long, hairy. Flowers axilla- 

 ry, the lower sterile frequently by threes; the upper fertile solitary. Pedun- 

 cles four to ten lines long. Stipules two, pubescent, as long as the pedun- 

 cles. Of the sterile floret, calyx five to six parted; filaments five to six, as 

 long as the calyx, united at base; Anthers greenish. Of the fertile floret, 

 germ superior; style or rather stigmas two, expanding curved. ■ Frvit, a 

 globular dry drupe, of a purple colour and saccharine taste. 

 ^ Around Beaufort formerly this tree was very common, and several of them 

 in the town had obtained the size I have mentioned. The wood, however, 

 appears not to be strong; the branches are easily broken from ' the stem by 

 Jigh winds, and in the frequent gales to which the sea-coast of Carolina and 

 weorgia has been exposed during the last twenty or twenty-five years, the 

 finest of these trees have literally been torn to pieces. Along the margin of 

 the sea-islands this tree, perhaps, occurs more frequently than in anv other 

 Situation. 



Flowers March. 



ZIZANIA. Gen. Pl. 1433. 



Mas cult. 



Co VQ II 



a 



? 



glum a 



Calyx 0. 1 Sterilejlorets. 



Ca 



2-val 



VIS, mutica, foemineis 



mixta. 



lyxO, 



2-vaIved, 



Corollu^ glume 



uuawned, 



mingled with the fertile 



Foe 



minei. Calyx 0, 



titus. 



Semen 1, corol- 



'^plicata vestitum. 



*; 



rjl 



1. AaUATlCA. 



■ft 



Z. paniciila pyrami 

 uata, inferne divarica 



florets. 



Fertile florets. 



C 



Corolla gl u m a 2- v al v i s, lyx 0. C07-0 lla glu me 

 ^ristata. Stylus 2-par- [ 2-vaIved, awned. Style 



2-parted. Seed clothed 

 with the plaited corolla. 



ta 



niasciila 



superrie 



Panicle pyramidal, 

 divaricate and sterile 

 at base, spiked and fer- 



spicata foeminea; pedi- tile towards the sum 



cellis florum clavatis 



mit; 



pedicells of the 



^nstis longis; .semine flower clavate 



elo 



5 



awns 



ngato. 



^'OL. u. 



B 4 



long; seed long. 



