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in Tennessee. 2. (Uptera. Round Savannah in Georgia, 

 but scarce. 3. parvijlora. Scarcely distinct from No. X. 

 Uab. In Georgia. 



A Norih American genus. 



482. STYRAX. L. (Storax.) 

 C(i/!a:campaniilate, mostly 54oothed, inferior. 



Corolla deeply 5 to T-jiarted, inserted upon the 

 •calix. Drupe (theca?) coriaceous, containing 

 1 or 2, 1 -seeded nuts. (Stamina 6 to 16, aris- 

 ing from the orifice of the corolla, coalescing at 

 the base, dnthers oblong, linear.) 



Trees or shrubs; leaves entire, without stipules; flow- 

 ers axillary and terminal, solitary or racemose, vthite. 

 (Corolla nearly divided to the base, segments spreading 

 or revolute; filaments enlarged, pubescent and uniting at 

 the base; style simple exserted; theca trifid, nut marked 

 with 3 converging lines. Embryon flat, inclosed in a car- 

 nose perisperm, radicle inferior. Pubescence stellate, as 

 in the Malvaceae) 



Species. \. S.grandifolium. 2. pulverulent um. 3. g'la- 

 bum. Stamina from 10 to 14. By much the most ele- 

 gant and ornamental. All the North American species 

 have the calix 5-toothed. 



Of this genus there are 2 other species; one of them in- 

 digenous to Syria and naturalized probably in Italv, the 

 second, S. £enzoi?t, which afibrds the resin so called, is 

 spontaneous in Sumatra. 



483. HOPEA. L, (Yellow-leaf.) 



Calix 5-cleft, superior. Petals 5. Stamina 

 many, connate in 5 bodies. Stijle 1. Fruit a 

 drupe of 3 cells; (2 of the cells often abortive.) 



A tree with entire alternate leaves; flowers axillary, fas* 

 ciculated, earlier than the leaves. 



Species. 1. H. tinctoria. The leaves, which are of a 

 sweetish taste, aflbrd a yellow die v.-hich is augmented 

 to red in an infusion of tlie flowers of several species of 

 Coreopsis. — The only species of the genus, including a dis- 

 tinct low and fraticose variety. 



484. GORDONIA. L. 



Calix simple, 5-leaved. Fctals 5, connate at 



