Cliftonia. OLACINE^. 393 



Jacq. Coll. i. 1C2, «& Ic. Rar. t. 47; Miclix. Fl. i. 157; Plauch. Lond. Jour. Bot. 

 V. 254. — A small geuus, perhaps best regarded as a variable monotype of remark- 

 able range. 



C. racemiflora, L. 1. c. 50. Shrub lO to 12 feet high: leaves cuneate-oLlong or oblauceo- 

 late, mauifestly reticulated upou both sides, 1 to 3 inches loug : sejjals triaugular : petals 

 oblong, acutish, contiguous at their broad bases : fruit scarcely more than a line long, dry 

 at maturity, inclined to separate into two parts. — Walt. Car. 103 ; Jacq. 1. c. ; Ell. Sk. i. 

 294; Nutt. Sylv. ii. 96, t. 74.i C. Carol tniaiia, Michx. Fl. i. 158. C. parvl/olia, Shuttl. Bot. 

 Zeit. iii. 221, a small-leaved variety .2 Itea Cjjrilla, Swartz, Prodr. 50, & Obs. t. 4, f. 1 ; 

 L'Her. Stirp. t. 66; Willd. Spec. i. 1146. — Sandy and wet pine woods, N. Carolina ^ to 

 Florida and westward near the Gulf to Hardin Co., Texas, Nealleij ; fl. June. (W. Ind. ?, 

 Northern S. Am. "?) Linnicus wrongly described the fruit as a 2-vaived many-seeded capsule 

 and the petals as longitudinally villous inside. 



2. CLIFTONIA, Banks. Titi, Buckwheat-tree. {Francis Clifton, a 

 London physician, who travelled in Jamaica, where he died, 1736.) — Leaves 

 coriaceous, scarcely reticulated. Flowers white or rose-colored in nodding racemes 

 terminating the branches of the preceding year. Bracts minute, caducous ; 

 bractlets none. — Banks in Gaertn. f. Fruct. iii. 246, t. 225; Endl. Gen. 1413; 

 Planch. 1. c. 255. Mylocaryum, Willd. Enum. 454, in note. Mylocarium, Ell. 

 Sk. i. 508 Walteriana, Fras. in Endl. Gen. 1413. — A monotype of the S. E. 

 United States. 



C. nitida, G^ertn. f. 1. c. 247. A shrub or small tree, 8 to 15 feet high, glabrous: leaves 

 obovate-obloug, 1 to 1| inches long, shining above, pale or glaucous beneath, evergreen: 

 racemes dense, 1 to 2 (to 4) inches long: petals 2 to 3 lines long: fruit 4 lines long. — C. 

 ligustrina, Sims in Spreng. Syst. ii. 316; Nutt. Sylv. ii. 92, t. 73. Mylocaryum Ugustrinum, 

 Willd. 1. c. ; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1625; Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 445, f. 309. Mylocarium Ugustri- 

 num, Pursh, Fl. i. 302, t. 14 ; Ell. Sk. i. 508.* — Pine-barren swamps, S. Carolina to Alabama^ 

 and Florida; fl. March. A plant of obscure affinities, exhibiting not one of the distinguish- 

 ing characters of the Malpighiacece, to which Nuttall referred it. 



Order XL. OLACINE^. 



• By a. Gray. 



Mostly tropical trees or shrubs, with alternate simple leaves, no stipules, and 

 regular flowers. Petals hypogynous, valvate in the bud and sometimes united into 

 a tube, and with the stamens inserted on the outside or margin of the disk ; the 

 latter of same number as and opposite the petals or twice as many. Ovary 

 1-celled or 2-5-celled only at base, whence rises a placental axile column (in the 

 manner of Santalacece) , bearing on its apex 2 to 4 pendulous anatropous ovules 

 with dorsal rhaphe (i. e. micropyle next the placenta) ; style only one with ter- 



1 Add lit. Sargent, Silv. ii. 3, t. 51. 



2 Add syn. C. racemosn, Loud. Arb. iv. 2577, f. 2503. C. polystachia,parvifolia, kfuscata, Raf. 

 Aut. Bot. 8. Andromeda phimata, "Bart. Cat." Marsh. Arb. 9. 



3 S. E. Virginia, Heller. 



* Add syn. Ptclea mnnophylln, I.am. III. i. 336. Walteriana CaroUniensis, Cat. Hort. Eraser, 3. 

 Cliftonia nionophylla, Britton, Bull. Torr. Chib, xvi. 310 ; Sargent, Silv. ii. 7, t. 52, 

 6 Westward to E- Louisiana, ape. to Sargent, 1. c. 



