392 ORDER 65. CORNACE^E. 



p. ASPERIFOLIA Feay. Lvs. scabrous-pubescent above, downy beneath, 

 rather inclined to elliptical; cymes scabrous. S. and W. States. (C. 

 asperi folia MX.) 



8 C. circinata L. Branches verrucous ; Ivs. orbicular or very broadly oval, white 

 tomenious benea'h; cymes spreading, depressed; drupes light blue. A shrub 

 some Gi' high, G-in. to Md., W. to Ind. St. grayish, upright, with opposite, cylin- 

 drical, green, spotted or warly branches. Lvs. large, about as broad as long, 

 opposite, acuminate, crowned with a white, thick down on the under side. Ms. 

 white. Berries hollowed at b.ise, soft, crowned With the remains of the style. Jn. 



2. NYSSA, L. (The name of a nymph or naiad, says Linnaeus.) 

 TCLEPO, GUM-TREE. Fls. dioecious or polygamous. $ Calyx tube very 

 short, limb truncate; petals 5, oblong; stain. 5 12, mostly 10, inserted 

 outside a glandular disk in the bottom of the calyx ; ovary 0. $ Calyx- 

 tube oblong, adherent to the 1-celled ovary, limb truncate, a mere rim 

 as in $ ; petals 2 5, oblong, often or soon deciduous; stam. mostly 

 abortive; style large, stigmatic on one sklc; drupe ovrl, 1-seedcd. 

 Trees with small green, fls. clustered on axillary peduncles, the sterile 

 more numerous. 



1 N. mttltiflora Wang. Lvs. oblong-obovato, acutish or obtuse at each end, entire ; 

 the petiole, midvein and margin villous; fertile peduncles 3 (2 ^-flowered; style 

 revolute; nut short, obovate, striate, obtuse. Woodlands d:y or damp. U. S. A 

 large tree, 30 to 70f in night, trunk 1 3f diam. with a light gray hexagonally 

 broken bark. Lvs. of a firm texture, 2 5' long, half as wide. J Peduncles 

 6 9-flo\vered, lil. at length slender. Drupo often solitary, blackish blue, 5 6" 

 long. Wood soft, bat hard to split. Apr. Jn. (N. aquatica and biflora, auth.) 



2 N. tmiflora Walt. SWAMP TCLEPO. Lvs. green, oblong-ovato or ovate, long- 

 petiolate, entire or donticul ite, pubescent or smoothish beneath; fertile flowers 

 solitary, 3-bractcd; on slender peduncle? ; style nearly straight ; sterile fls. 5 10; 

 drupe large, oblong. Swamps, S. States, common. A tree of large size, 50 

 80f high. Loaves when young thin, mostly acuto at each end, when full grown 

 large, abrupt or cordate at base, thickish, 3 9' long, the petioles 1 2'. Fruit 

 blue, as large as a plum. Wood soft and white. Apr. May. (X. denticulata^ 

 tomentosa, angulizans MX., etc-.) 



3 N. capitata Walt. OGEECHEK LIME. Lvs. oval or olilong, short-petiolate, entire, 

 whitened beneath, rnidvein snbvillous, obtuso at apex, acuto at base; fertile fls. 

 solitary, on short peduncles, downy, 3 4-bracted, with 5 petals and 10 stamens; 

 sterile fls. 20 30 in each dense globular head ; fruit largo, oblong. On river banks 

 (especially the Ogeecbee!) S. States. Tree 20 30f high. Lvs. ample, 59' long, 

 2 3' broad, usually mucronate; petiole 2 6" long. Fruit "dark red" as large 

 as a small plum, acid. May, Jn. (N. candicans Ph.) 



643. Sytnetricnl flower of Scdum aero. 4, of Sempcrvi 



