266 ERJCNACKJE. (KBONT FAMILY.) 



gciher in the axils and at the tips of tho branches. Low pine barrens, Virginia 

 (Pursh) and southward. Shrub l-4 high. 



3. S. Americana, L:un. Leaves oblong, acute at both ends (1-3 

 long), smooth, or barely pu/rerulcnt bentath; jioirtrA axillary or in 3-4-//' 

 raa-mes (%' long) ; corolla valvate in the bud. (S. glabrum and S. lave, Ell.) 

 Margin of swamps, Virginia and southward. May. Shrub 4 -8 high. 



2. HAL, tS I A, Ellis. SNOWDKOP or SILVER-BELL-TREE. 



Calyx inversely conical, 4-toothcd ; tho tube 4-ribbed, coherent with the 2-4- 

 eelled ovary. Petals 4, united at the base, or oftener to the middle, into an open 

 bell-shaped corolla, convolute or imbricated in the bud. Stamens 8- 16 : fila- 

 ments united into a ring at the base, and usually a little coherent with the basa 

 of the corolla : anthers linear-oblong. Ovules 4 in eaeli cell. Fruit large and 

 dry, 2-4-winged, within bony and 1 -4-celled. Seeds single in each cell, cylin- 

 drical. Shrubs or small trees, with largo and veiny pointed deciduous leaves, 

 and showy white flowers, drooping on slender pedicels, in clusters or short ra- 

 cemes, from axillary buds of the preceding year. Pubescence partly stellate. 

 (Named for S. Hales, author of Vegetable Statics, &c.) 



1. H. tctrilptera, L. Leaves oblong-ovate; fruit 4-winged. Banks 

 of streams, upper part of Virginia, also on the Ohio River at Evansville (S/iort), 

 and southward. Fruit l' long. 



3. SYUIPL.OCOS, Jacq. H&PEA, L. SWEET LEAF. 



Calyx 5-clcft, the tube coherent with the lower part of the 3-celled ovary. 

 Petals 5, imbricated in tho bud, lightly united at the base. Stamens very nu- 

 merous, in 5 clusters, one cohering with the base of each petal : filaments slen- 

 der : anthers very short, Fruit drupe-like or dry, mostly 1 -celled and 1 -seeded. 

 Shrubs or small trees ; the leaves commonly turning yellowish in drying, and 

 furnishing a yellow dye. Flowers in axillary clusters or racemes, yellow, 

 (Name <rvun\oKos, connected, from the union of the stamens. Hopea was dedi- 

 cated to Dr. Hope, of Edinburgh.) 



1. 8. tinctoria, L'Her. (HORSE-SUGAR, &c.) Loaves elongated-ob- 

 long, acute, obscurely toothed, thickish, almost persistent, minutely pubescent 

 and pale beneath (3' -5' long); flowers 6-14, in close and bractcd clusters, 

 odorous. Rich ground, Virginia and southward. April. Leave* sweot 

 greedily eaten by cattle. 



ORDER 66. EBENACE^E. (EBONY FAMILY.) 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate entire leaves, and polygamous regular flow- 

 ers which have a calyx free from the 3-1 2-celled ovary ; the stamens 2-4 

 times as many as the lobes of the corolla, often in pairs before them, their 

 anthers turned inwards, and the fruit a several-celled berry. Ovules 1 or 2, 

 suspended from the summit of each cell. Seeds anatropcus, mostly single in 

 each cell, large and flat, with a smooth cori.-ueous intef omer t; the 



