Gordonia. CHEIRANTHODENDRE^. 293 



small trees (of E. United States and Asia), with mostly coriaceous leaves, naked 

 leaf-buds, showy axillary or subterminal flowers, and white petals. — Phil. Trans. 

 Ix. 520, t. 11 ; (Catesb. Car. i. t. 44) ; L. Mant. ii. 556; Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 101, 

 t. 140-142.1 



§ 1. Gordonia proper. Filaments short, on the summit and inner surface 



of five thickened disk-like lobes which are confluent at base into a cup or rino- : 



petals well united at base : capsule pointed with the base of the short style • 



valves entire ; seeds 4 or by abortion 2 in each cell, pendulous from its inner 



angle toward the base, membranaceous-winged upward. — Gray, 1. c. 



G. Lasianthus, Ellis, 1. c. 523. (Loblolly Bay.) Tree 60 to 80 feet high, or arbo- 

 rescent shrub : leaves subsessile, lanceolate to oblong with tapering base, firm-coriaceous 

 callous-serrulate, shining, 4 to 6 inches long, the veins inconspicuous : flowers rather long- 

 peduncled : petals concave, often 2 inches long : capsule ovoid, canescent. — L. Mant. ii. 

 570; Cav. Diss. vi. 307, t. 161 ; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 668 ; Lam. 111. iii. t. 594 ; Nouv. Duham. 

 ii. t. 68; Michx. f. Hist. Arb. Am. iii. 131, t. 1 (Lasyanthus) ; Audubon, Birds Amer. t. 

 168; Gray, 1. c.''^ G. pi/ramidulis, Salisb. 1. c. 386. Hypericum Lasianthus, L. Spec. ii. 783. 

 — Swamps, near the coast, Virginia to Florida and Mississippi ; fl. early summer. 



§ 2. Franklinia, Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 223. Filaments elongated, in 5 

 distinct clusters, each directly adnate to the base of one. of the nearly distinct 

 petals : style slender, deciduous ; ovules 6 or 8 in each cell, downwardly imbri- 

 cated : capsule globular, obtuse, loculicidally 5-valved from apex to below the 

 middle, and then septicidally from base upward ; seeds closely packed on the 

 salient axile placentae, angled by mutual pressure, wingless or nearly so ; embryo 

 unknown : leaves deciduous. — Gray, 1. c. 



G. pubescens, L'Her. Tree or tall shrub : leaves submembranaceous and veiny, obovate- 

 spatulate, serrulate, canescently puberulent beneath, tapering at base, short-petioled, 5 to 10 

 inches long: flowers subsessile, as large as of preceding and more open. — Stirp. Nov. vi. 

 156; Lam. Diet. ii. 770; Cav. Diss. vi. 308, t. 162; Vent. Malm. t. 1 ; Michx. f. Hist. Arb. 

 Am. iii. 135, t. 2 ; Audubon, Birds Amer. t. 185; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 223; Gray, Gen. 111. 

 t. 142, & 141 in part.3 G. Franklini, L'Her. 1. c* Franklinia Altamaha, Marsh. Arbust. 

 49; Bartr. Trav. 16, 467. Michauxia sessilis, Salisb. L c. 386. Lacathea Jiorida, Sahsh. 

 Parad. Loud. t. 56. — Near Fort Barrington on the Altamaha River, coll. Dartram, but not 

 since found : now known only in cultivation ; fl. summer. 



Order XXV. CHEIRANTHODENDRE^. 



By A. Gray. 



Trees or shrubs, with rusty furfuraceous-tomentulose stellular pubescence, 

 alternate palmately lobed leaves, small caducous stipules, and hermaphrodite 

 terminal flowers simply pentamerous throughout, but apetalous. Calyx deeply 

 5-parted, colored but persistent, strongly quincuncial-imbricated, within inore or 

 less nectariferous-pitted at base, subtended by 3 caducous or deciduous bractlets. 



i Add syn. Lasianthus, Adans. Fam. ii. 398. 



2 Add Sarpent, Silv. i. 41, t. 21. 



3 Add Spraffue & Goodale, Wild Flowers, 194, t. 47. 



4 Add syn. G. Altamaha, Sargent, Gard. & For. ii. 616, & Silv, 1. 45, t. 22. 



