E^TNEANBRIA MONOGYNIA. 461 



A small tree, 20—50 feet high, the braoches glabrouSj somewhat 

 ■geniculate, Leaves eomposed of 4 pair of leaflets uithout an odd one^ 

 the leaflets not opposite, falcate, oblique, entire. Common petiole 

 6 — 10 inches long, terete, glabrous, slightly furrowed, not winged. 

 Floivers in terminal panicles. Leaves of the calyx unequal (2 larjier), 

 slightly fringed. Corolla 4—6 pctalled ; petals lanceolate, white ; 

 a cluster of hairs near the base of each seems to supply the place of 

 the nectary* Filamerds 6—8, hairy near t!ie base, as long as the cor 

 rolla. ^ Germ 3 angled. Styles united, nearly conical. Stigmas ob- 

 tuse, simple. The base of the germ is surrounded by a yellow, glan- 

 dular ring, in whicJi the stamen.- and petals are inserted. Capsules 

 5, united, ventricose, glabroug, of which 1 or 2 are frequently abor- 

 tive. Seed one iu each capsule. 



^ This plant appears to differ in several respects from the S. sapona- 

 na, as described in the Species Plantanim, 



Grows 4 miles below Savannah, and is said to be found along the 

 sea coast of Georgia^ 





CLASS IX 



ENNEANDRrA. 



2j9. LAURUS. 261. PLEEA. 



260. ERIOGONUM. 



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LAURUS. Gun. pl. 088. 



yxo. Corolla ca- I Cali/x 0. Corolla resem- 

 lycina 4—6 partita. Mc- bling a calyx, 4— 1> parted, 

 tarium gland alis 3, bise- | Kedary with 3 two-awn- 

 tis, ovarium cingentibus. I ed glands surrounding 

 Filamenta interiora glan- ' the germ. The interior 

 dulifera. Di^pa 1-sper- \jilanients bearing, glands. 



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Drupe i seeded 



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* Foliia perennatitibus, | * Leaves perennial, 



1. Carolinewsis. Mich, 



L. foliis ovali-lanceola- I Leaves oval lanceolate 



tis, coriaceis, siibtus glau- coriaceous, glaucous un. 



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