MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. 



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shaped, rugose, yellowish, the border somewhat bilabiate, undulate, fila- 

 ments 2, thick, longer than the corolla. Fertile florets. Calyx obtuse. Co- 

 rolla superior, 1-petaIled, with the margin fimbriate. Style erect, 3-cleft, 

 (perhaps 3 united,) Capsules rather rough, 3-ceIled, one seed in each cell. 



Grows in dry sandy soils. 



Flowers May — June, 



Sebifera. 



S. arborea; foliispe- 

 tiolatis, rhombcis, acii- 

 minatis, integerriinis, 

 infra basin glandulape- 

 tiolari; floribus mascu- 

 lis pedicellatis. 



1 



A tree; leaves on pe- 

 tioles^ rhomboidal, acu- 

 minate^ entire^ with a 

 petiolar gland below 

 the base; sterile florets 

 on pedicels. 



Sp. pL 4. p. 588. Mich. 2- p. 213. Pursh, 2. p. 608. Nutt. 2. p. 226. 

 Croton Sebiferum, Lin. 



A tree 20 — 40 feet high, the }■ oung branches and leaves glabrous and 

 somewhat lactescent. Leaves alternate, broad and rhomboidal, conspicu- 

 ously acuminate, on petioles 1 — 2 inches long. Flowers intemiinal spikes, 

 the sterile very much crowded towards the summit, the fertile few at base. 

 Sterile floret. Calyx ovate, obtuse, 10 — 12-flowered, having 2 greenish 

 glands at base, each floret on a pedicel 2 — 3 lines long. Corolla 1-petalled, 

 4-toothed. Filaments 2, longer than the corolla. Fertile floret. Calyx a 

 scale, 3-parted, persistent. Corolla . Styles 3, subulate, reflex- 



ed. Stigma simple. Capsule a little rough, black, 3-celled. Seed one 

 in each cell, very white. 



This tree, originally from China, is how completely naturalized along the 

 sea-coast of our country. It bears its fruit in great abundance, but though 

 they contain much oil no use is yet made of them. 



Grows in rich close soils. 



Flowers June — July. 



3. LiGUSTRlNA. 



Mich 



S. 



fruticosa. 



foliis 



lanceolatis 



? 



utrinque 



altemiatis, integerri 

 mis, petiolatis; flosculis 



A shrub: leaves Ian 



? 



at 



ceolate, tapering 

 each end^ entire, on pe- 

 tioles; sterile florets on 



masculis brevissime pe- [ short pedicels, 

 dicellatis. 



