7 SIMARUBACEJ:. ^QUASSIA FAMILY.) 



ORDER 34. SI3IARUBACE--E. (QrA^iA FAMILY.) 



s r shrubs, with, usually, bitter milky juice, simple or pinnate 

 - - g dar perfect or polygamous hypogynous flow- 



- "- '. eft. persistent. Petals 3 5, deciduous. Stamens 



as i: :.e as many, inserted ou a hypogynous disk. Ovary 



composed of distinct or united carpels, each 1 2-ovuled. Fruit dru- 



[ us. Albumen none. The folio-wing genera represent as mauy 



tribes of the order. 



1. SIMARUBA, AuMet. QCASSIA. 



F". v-r^ -_:_ nee i as on I: i-.-ious. Calyx 4 - 5-toothed. Petak4 5, spread - 



ens 8 10. with the filaments adherent to ihe back of a ciliate scale. 



- -.-5. surrou: 8-1 - .Ue-like rudiments of stamens with a 



- 2 - suspended ovule in each. Drupes 1-5. Trees. Leaves abrnptly 



pinn.. : and entire '. . ts Flowers :-mall. greenish, in lateral 



and terminal pat: 



1. S. glauca, IK'. Smooth thror._ I dowers dioecious: stigmas 5, 

 snbu". - a Bets 4-8 mate and opp -site, coriaceous, ol 



or obloi:_ - .".-.-r beneath; drupe oval, mostly solitary. South Flor- 



ida. A Lor. 



2. PICRAMNIA, Swaitz. 



^vers dioecious. .1-0- parted. Petals 3-5. oblong. Stamens 



3-5. op] site 1 - ^tigmas 2. sessile. Fruit a 2-celled, 2- 



. d drupe. Small trees, with nneijnallv pinnate leaves, and small flowers 

 in terminal racemes or panicl - 



1. P. pentandra, S'.vartz. Leaflets 5-7, alternately distant, ovate- 

 oblong, obtuse: panicle simple, drooping, flowers greenish; stamens 5. 

 :a Florida ( Garter). 



3. SURIANA, Plum. 



Calyx 5-parted. persistent; the base fille<l with a fleshy rorus, which bears 



the ovaries, petals, and stamens. Perals 5. oblons-obovate. Stamens 10, 



:ies short and sterile. <Vari- - ' -:inct. with 2 erect 



.orropons ovules in each. Styles 5. each arising from the central 



angle of the ovary near fh - : .ickenetl upwards. Carpels 1-seeded. inde- 



hiscent. " - irhout albumen. Embryo h-x-ked A downy shrub, with 



alternate crowded exstipulate leaves, and perfect yellow flowers, in small 



axillary bracted racemes. 



1. S. maritlma, L. Sea-shore, South Florida. Shrub 4-6 3 high. 

 L - near-spatula:- - .imbricated near the summit of the branches- 

 mes shorter than the lea - 



