182 PRACTICAL BOTANY. 



Leaves simple, often entire, sometimes none. 

 Ovary 3- to 8-celled. Corolla 5- (rarely 4-) lobed 419 



419. Fruit a drupe, or a berry, or drupe- or berry-like. 



420 



Fruit a pod 423 



4^0. Fruit a drupe, or a berry. Filaments smooth, dis- 

 tinct. Anthers sometimes awned. Flowers perfect, or 



polygamous 421 



Fruit drupe- or berry-like. Filaments either united 

 into a tube at the base, or distinct and hirsute 422 



431. Fruit a drupe, with 5 firmly united nutlets, red, or 

 black. Corolla ovate, or urn-shaped, with a short, revolute, 

 5-toothed limb. Style 1. Stamens 10, included. Anthers 

 opening by terminal pores, and bearing 2 reflexed awns on 

 the back. Flowers white, all alike, scaly-bracted, in termi- 

 nal racemes or clusters. Trailing and depressed evergreens. 

 Leaves obovate or spatulate. Arctostaphylos. 



Fruit a berry, 8-celled, 8-seeded, fleshy, plum-like, 

 yellow, when ripe. Calyx and leathery corolla 4-lobed. 

 Styles 4, each 2-lobed. Flowers polygamous, greenish-yel- 

 low, the fertile usually solitary, and with 8 stamens, the 

 sterile ones mostly clustered and 16-androus. Anthers ex- 

 trorse. A small tree. Leaves ovate-oblong. 



Diospyros Virginiana, L. (860). 



433. Fruit coriaceous, drupe-like, 1-celled, 1 -seeded. 

 Calyx truncate, or slightly 5-toothed, coherent with the base 

 of the 3-celled, many-seeded ovary. Corolla 5-parted. 

 Filaments united at the base in a short tube. Flowers 

 showy, white, drooping in axillary racemes. Shrubs. 



Styrax(5ii). 

 Fruit an apparent berry, but really a 5-celled, 

 many-seeded pod, enclosed by the fleshy, scarlet calyx. 

 Calyx 5-cleft, with 2 bractlets at the base. Corolla ovoid- 

 tubular, with 5 revolute lobes, white. Filaments distinct, 

 hirsute. Anthers opening by terminal pores. Stem pros- 

 trate, mostly hidden under ground. Branches ascending, 3 

 inches high. Leaves obovate, mucronate, denticulate, 

 crowded at the top of the stem-like branches. Flowers ter- 

 minal, few, drooping. Gaultheria procumbeus, L. 



