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tinct or variously united. Ovary 1 - many-celled, few - many-ovuled. 



Style single, often none. Fruit capsular, baccate, or drupaceous. 



Seeds without albumen. Embryo straight. Cotyledons thick, dis- 

 tinct or united. 



1. CLUSIA, L. 



Calvx 2-bracted, of 6 imbricated colored sepals. Petals 4-9. Stamens 

 numerous, the filaments united at the base into a thick and fleshy tube. Ovary 

 5 -15 celled. Ovules numerous, fixed to a central column. Stigma large, 

 radiate-peltate. Capsule coriaceous, globose-angled, 5- 15-celled; the valves 

 separating from the central column at maturity. Seeds numerous, ovate. 

 Parasitical tropical trees, with thick, opposite, entire and shining leaves, and 

 chiefly polygamous, cyrnose, showy flowers. 



1. C. flava, L. Leaves short stalked, obovate, obtuse or emarginate ; 

 finelv veined ; flowers polygamous, single or by threes, on short axillary and 

 terminal peduncles ; sepals rounded ; petals 4, oval, thick, yellow and unequal ; 

 stamens short and thick; stigma about 12-rayed; capsule, pear-shaped, 12- 

 seeded, the seeds embedded in soft pulp. South Florida. A small tree. 



ORDER 22. CANELLACE^E. (CAXELLA FAMILY.) 



Aromatic trees or shrubs, with alternate exstipulate entire leaves, 

 and corymbose flowers. Sepals 3, imbricated, like the 4-5 thick 

 petals. Stamens 10-20, hypogynous, united, forming an entire trun- 

 cated tube. Anthers adnate to the tube. Ovary 1-celled, the placenta? 

 parietal. Fruit baccate. Embryo short, included in copious albumen. 



1. CANELLA, P.Browne. 



Sepals rounded, convex. Petals oblong, deciduous. Ovary 4 6-ovuled. 

 Stigmas 2-3. Berry globose, mostly 3-seeded, pulpy within. A small tree. 

 Leaves obovate-oblong, coriaceous. Corymbs terminal. Flowers small, 

 purple. 



1. C. alba, Swartz. Keys of South Florida. August. 



ORDER 23. CAMELLIACE^E. (CAMELLIA FAMILY.) 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate exstipulate leaves, and regular hy- 

 pogynous polyandrous showy flowers. Sepals and petals 5-6, imbri- 

 cated in the bud. Stamens numerous, united at the base into a ring, 

 or into sets placed opposite the petals, and adnate to their bases : an- 

 thers 2-celled, introrse. Ovary 2-5-celled, 2 - many-ovuled. Styles 

 2-5, distinct or united. Capsule 2-5-celled, mostly loculicidally de- 

 hiscent. Albumen scarce or none. 



