i-20 MONOBCIA, POLYANDRIA. 



bose, nt length ligneous and alveolate, iJveoli muricate on 

 the margins, at first glandular. Surface of the ament gra- 

 nulated, I he granulations interspersed with infertile styles. 

 Calix and corolla none. Capsules by pairs, immersed in 

 the alveoli, each terminated by a single style and lateral 

 stigma, 1-celled, 1-valved, foUiculate, internally lined with 

 collateral rows of angular scrobiform deciduous bodies, 

 applied to the few winged and perfect seeds. Perisperm 

 of the secid carnose and thin; radicle superior; cotyle- 

 dons straight. 



Of this genus there is a second species in the Levant. 



reo. JUGLANS. L. (Walnut.) 



jMasc. Ameut imbricated. Calix consist ing 

 iff scales. Corolla 5 or 6-parted. Stamina 18 to 

 36. Fem. CcZix' 4-cIeft, superior. Ccrolla 4-pSLvt' 

 cd. Styles I oi- 2. Drupe i)-ciri\y spong^'j iiutru- 

 g'usc, and irregularly furrowed. 



Large trees with allernate and unequally pinnated 

 leaves; female flowers terrnina^; masculine umenls simple, 

 axillary, produced in separate partial buds. 



SvECi-ES. 1.3. ni^-ra. 0ns. Male ament simple; flowers 

 disl'.nct. Calix (corolla X.) mostly 5-parted, subtended 

 by a single and almost similar bracte; s^mina more thaa 

 2J, 30 to 36; receptacle ( levated, hemi^ierical- Female 

 flowers terminal, destitute of bractes, collected by 3 or 

 4 togethc:'; germ suI>cy!indric-ovate, terminated by a ca- 

 lacinc, toothed margin; petals 4; style i, short, stigmas 2, 

 subclavate, margin revoiute, upper surface lacerated. 2. 

 clnerea (J. catharticuy Mich. arb. 1. p. 165.) "Butter Xut." 

 .>. fraxmifiUa. -f. 



The original species of tliis genus fJ. regie J, the com- 

 mon X'lalnut of Europe, and J? pterocarpa, both indige- 

 nous to the borders of the Caspian sea in Persia, with the 

 above, appear to comprize the present genus. 



76lf *CARYA. t JuGLANs species, X. Willd, 

 (Hickory.) 



.Masc. Jment iiribricat<nl. CalLv 3-parfed 

 .scales. Corolla none. Stamina 4 to 6. Fem. 



=j- Kci(^vet, the Walnut Tree. (The name which the Greeks 

 sppl.ed to Jiighins regia J 



