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5. TRIADICA Lour. Sluubs or trees. Leaf-blades entire, usually broad. 

 Flowers monoecious, in dense spike-like panicles, apetalous. Staminate flowers 

 with 2 or rarely 3 sepals and 2 or 3 stamens. Pistillate flowers with 2 or 3 

 sepals and a 2- or 3-eelled ovary. Fruit a fleshy capsule. 



1. T. sebifera (L.) Small. Tree resembling a poplar: leaf -blades acuminate, 

 4-8 cm. long, entire, long-petioled : capsules about 1.5 cm. broad: seeds 8-9 mm. 

 long. [Croton sehiferum L.] — Spr. 



The Chinese tallow-teee, a native of eastern Asia, grows in northern Florida 

 and the northern portion of the peninsula. The white heart-wood is close-grained, 

 and rather light, but hard. (Cont., W. /.) 



6. SAPIUM P. Br. Shrubs or trees. Leaf-blades toothed, usually nar- 

 row. Flowers monoecious, in narrow si^ike-like panicles, apetalous. Staminate 

 flowers with 2 or 3 sepals and 2 or 3 stamens. Pistillate flowers with 2 or 3 

 sepals and a 2- or 3-celled ovary. Fruit a dry capsule. 



1. S. gandulosum (L.) Morong. Small tree or shrub, resembling a willow: 

 leaf-blades acute, 16 cm. long, serrulate, short-petioled : capsules about 1 cm. 

 broad : seeds 6-7 mm. long. — Spr. 



The Milk-tree, a native of South America, grows about Pensacola. The 

 wood has not yet been studied. ("IT'. I.) 



7. HIPPOMANE L. Trees. Leaf-blades entire or toothed. Flowers 

 monoecious, apetalous. Staminate flowers with 2 or 3 sepals and 2 or 3 

 stamens. Pistillate flowers with 3 sepals and a 6-8-celled ovary. Fruit a 

 drupe. 



1. H. Mancinella L. Tree becoming 18 m. tall: leaf-blades ovate, oblong, or 

 oval, 4-10 cm. long: spikes 4-8 cm. long: drupes spheroidal, 2.5-3.5 cm. 

 broad. — Spr. 



The Manchineel grows in hammoclss on the Everglade Keys and Florida 

 Keys. The dark-brown heart-wood is close-grained, but light and soft. (ir. /.) 



8. RICINUS [Tourn.] L. Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaf -blades peltate, 

 palmately lobed. Flowers monoecious, apetalous. Staminate flowers with 3-5 

 sepals and numerous stamens. Pistillate flowers with caducous sepals and a 

 3-celled ovary. Fruit a capsule. 



1. E. communis L. Small tree or shrub, 1-5 m. tall, the stem widely branched: 

 leaf-blades nearly orbicular, 6-11-lobed: capsules 12-16 mm. in diameter. — 

 All year. 



The Castor-oil plant, a native of the Old World tropics, grows in waste 

 places, fields and hammocks nearly throughout Florida. The wood is rather close- 

 grained, but light and soft. (Cont., ir. /.) 



Order SAPINDALES. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves various: blades simple and eutire or toothed 

 or compound. Calyx of distinct sepals. Corolla of distinct petals, j-egu- 

 lar or rarely irregular, or wanting. Androeciuin of as many stamens as 

 there are petals, or of twice as many, or rarely of more, or fewer. Fila- 

 ments distinct. Gynoeeium a single cai-pel, or of several united carpels. 

 Ovary superior. Ovules 1 or 2, or several, in each cavity of the ovary, 

 pendulous, with the raphe away from the axis of the ovary, or erect or 

 ascendins:. Fruit vai'ious. 



