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reflexed, shorter by half than the tube. Stamina : filamenta 

 four, very short, arising below the divisions of the border ; 

 antherse oblong, erect. Pistil: germen roundish, inferior; 

 style filiform, length of the tube of the corolla; stigma 

 oblong, obtuse, thickish. Pericarp : berry two-lobed, cvowned 

 with the calix, two-celled, with the partition contrary. Seeds : 

 solitary, on one side convex and wrinkled, on the other flat, 

 margined, fastened to the partition. ESSENTIAL CHARAC- 

 TER. Corolla : one-petalled, salver-shaped. Calix : four- 

 toothed. Berry: two-lobed, two-celled. Seeds: solitary. 

 The only known species is, 



1. SiderodendrumTriflorum. A tall branching tree. Leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, quite entire, shining, petioled, oppo- 

 site, half a foot long ; flowers small, rose-coloured on the 

 outside, white within ; branches smooth, below round, above 

 slightly four-cornered, compressed at the top. The corolla 

 is often changed, perhaps by some insect, into an oblong 

 bae:, half an inch in length, fleshy, hollow within, ending in 

 a point at top, and having the appearance of a fruit. Found 

 in the mountain woods of Martinico, Montserrat, &c. 



Sideroxylum ; a genus of the class Pentandria, order Mono- 

 gynia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth five-cleft, 

 small, erect, permanent. Corolla: one-petalled, wheel- 

 shaped; segments five, roundish, concave, erect; toothlet 

 Cttsped, serrate at the base of each division of the petal, 

 tending inwards. Stamina : filamenta five, awl-shaped, length 

 e{ the corolla, alternate with the toothlets ; an them oblong, 

 incumbent. Pistil: germen roundish; style awl-shaped, 

 length of the stamina; stigma simple, obtuse. Pericarp: 

 roundish, one-celled. Seed: five. Observe. The teeth are 

 wanting in the corolla of some species, as in the first and 

 third; and the ninth differs in having ten stamina. ESSEN- 

 TIAL CHARACTER. Corolla: five-cleft. Nectary: in most 

 live-leaved. Stiyma: simple. Berry: five-seeded. These 

 plants are all propagated from seeds procured from abroad, 

 and sown in pots filled with light rich earth, and plunged 

 into a good hot-bed in the spring, in order to get the plants 

 forward early in the season. When they are fit to transplant, 

 they should be each put into a separate small pot filled with 

 good earth, and plunged into a fresh hot-bed while they are 

 young. In winter they must be plunged into the tan-bed 

 in the stove, and treated in the same manner as has been 

 directed for tender plants from the same countries. As they 

 obtain more strength, they may be treated more hardily, by 

 placing them in a dry-stove in the winter, and giving them 

 a greater share of free air in summer. When they ate strong, 

 they may be placed abroad in summer in a sheltered situation. 

 Mr. Miller propagated them by layers, which were two years 

 before they had made good roots; and sometimes they will 

 take from cuttings; but this is a very uncertain method, nor 

 do they when so raised grow so vigorously as those from 

 seeds. The species are, 



1. Sideroxylum Mite; Harmless Jronwood. Unarmed: 

 leaves acute ; flower sessile-. Native of Africa. 



2. Sideroxylum Inerme; Smooth Iromvood. Unarmed: 

 leaves perennial, obovate ; peduncles ound. The flowers 

 come out in clusters at the sides of the branches, upon short 

 footstalks, which bcanch out into several snudler, each sus- 

 taining a single flower, which is small and white. The wood 

 is so heavy as to sink in water, and, being- very close and 

 hard, has obtained the name of Ironwoocl. This tree is a 

 native of the Cape of Good Hope, where it rises to the height 

 of an English Apple-tree. Like all others of this genus, it 

 cannot be preserved iu England, unless placed in a moderate 

 stove. 



3. Sideroxylum Melanophlceutn ; Laurel-leaved Ironwood. 



Unarmed : leaves perennial, lanceolate ; peduncles angular. 

 This tree bears a great resemblance to the preceding. There 

 are no teeth between the stamina. Native of the Cape. 



4. Sideroxylum Cymosum. Unarmed : leaves opposite, 

 petioled ; cymes compound and decompound. A small shrub. 

 Native of the Cape. 



5. Sideroxylum Sericeum ; Silky Ironwood. Unarmed : 

 leaves ovate, tomentose, silky beneath. Corolla villose exter- 

 nally ; style slender, hairy at the base. Native of New South 

 Wales. 



6. Sideroxylum Argenteum ; Silvery Ironwood. Unarmed: 

 leaves ovate, retuse, tomentose; flowers peduncled. Native 

 of the Cape. 



7. Sideroxylum Tomentosum ; Downy Ironwood. Unarmed: 

 leaves oblong, acuminate, obtuse, the younger ones tomen- 

 tose; peduncles aggregate, axillary, length of the petiole. 

 A small tree. Native of the East Indies, chiefly on the tops 

 of mountains. 



8. Sideroxylum Lycioides ; Willow-leaved Ironwood. Spiny: 

 leaves elliptical, deciduous. A small tree, with minute green- 

 ish flowers. Native of Canada. 



9. Sideroxylum Decandrum. Spiny : leaves deciduous, 

 elliptic. This, if not a variety, bears a strong resemblance 

 to the preceding. Native of South America. 



Sigesbeckia; a genus of the class Syngenesia, order Poly- 

 gamia Sifperflua. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: com- 

 mon, exterior five-leaved; leaflets linear, round, spreading 

 very much, longer than the flower, permanent; interior sub- 

 quinquangular; leaflets many, ovate, concave, obtuse, equal. 

 Corolla: compound, half radiate; corollets hermaphrodite, 

 many in the disk ; female five or fewer in the ray, only on one 

 side of the flower. Proper of the hermaphrodite, funnel- 

 form, exceeding the calix in length, five-toothed or three- 

 toothed; female ligulate, wide, three-toothed, very short, or 

 funnel-shaped, trifid, the interior division deeper. Stamina: 

 in the hermaphrodites ; filamenta 6ve or three, very short ; 

 antherse cylindrical, tubular. Pistil: in the hermaphrodites, 

 germen oblong, curved in, size of the calix ; style filiform, 

 length of the stamina; stigma bifid. In the females, germen 

 oblong, curved in, size of the calix ; style filiform, length of 

 the hermaphrodite ; stigma bifid. Pericarp : none ; calix 

 unchanged. Seeds : in the hermaphrodites, solitary, oblong, 

 obtusely four-cornered, thicker above, obtuse, naked ; pap- 

 pus none. Iu the females, very like the others. Receptacles : 

 chaffy; chaffs very like the scales of the calix, concave, 

 wrapping up the seeds on one side, and deciduous. ESSEN- 

 TIAL CHARACTER. Calix: exterior, five-leaved; inner 

 spreading. Ray: halved. Pappus: none. Receptacle: 

 cbafFy. The species are, 



1. Sigesbeckia Orientalis; Oriental Sigesbeckia. Petioles 

 sessile; exterior calices linear, longer than the inner, spread- 

 ing. Plant annual, nearly four feet high, sending out many 

 branches ; flowers terminating, small, yellow. It is remark- 

 able for having the ray of the flower on one side, as in Mil- 

 leria. When the ripe seeds are gathered, they move in the 

 hand as if they were alive. It flowers in July and August. 

 Native of India, China, and Otaheite. Sow the seeds on 

 a hot-bed, and set out the plants in a warm border at the 

 beginning of June, supplying them with water in dry weather. 



2. Sigesbeekia Occidentals ; American Sigesbeekia. Petioles 

 decurrent; calices naked. Perennial, flowering in October 

 and November. See Phxthasa. 



3. Sigesbeckia Flosculosa; Small-flowered Sigesbeckia. 

 Floscules three-toothed, the hermaphrodites three-stamined. 

 Stem very much branched, round, slightly striated, somewhat 

 villose, jointed, the thickness of a reed, dusky purple. It i* 



