84 LAURACEAE. 



1. DIRCA L. Shrubs. Leaves alternate. Flowers appearing before the 

 leaves. Sepals usually shorter than the hypanthium. Filaments slender. Ovary 

 1-celled: style filiform. Drupe slightly elongate. 



1. D. palustris L. Shrub 0.5-2 m. tall: leaf -blades oval or obovate, 4-8 cm. 

 long: flowers lemon-yellow: hypanthium 7-8 mm. long: sepals very short: drupe 

 oval, 7-9 mm. long, red. LEATHERWOOD. MOOSE-WOOD. 

 Woods and along streams, m. and w. Fla. (Cent.) Spr. 



FAMILY 2. LAURACEAE. LAUREL FAMILY. 



Aromatic shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate or opposite : blades entire 

 or lobed. Flowers in open or congested cymes. Calyx of 5 (or rarely 

 4-10) sepals in 2 series. Corolla wanting. Androecium of usually more 

 stamens than there are sepals, in 2-4 series, those of the third series 

 usually glandular-appendaged, those of the fourth series mostly mere 

 staminodia. Gynoecium a single carpel. Ovary 1-celled. Fruit drupaceous. 



Flowers mostly perfect : stamens 12, the 3 inner staminodia : leaves persistent. 



Leaf-blades several-ribbed. 1. CAMPHORA. 



Leaf-blades pinnately veined. 



Calyx persistent : fruit seated on the calyx. 2. TAMALA. 



Calyx deciduous : fruit seated on the hypanthium. 3. OCOTEA. 



Flowers mostly dioecious : stamens 9 : leaves deciduous. 



Anthers 4-celled, 4-valved : flowers in involucrate umbel-like 



cymes. 4. GLABEAEIA. 



Anthers 2-celled, 2-valved : flowers in umbel-like or cluster-like 



cymes. 5. BENZOIN. 



1. CAMPHOEA [Gronov.] L. Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate or 

 opposite, persistent: blades entire. Flowers in panicled axillary cymes. Style 

 slender. Stigma minute. Drupe equilateral, as broad as long, or nearly so. 



1. C. Cam.ph.ora (L.) Karst. Small tree or shrub: leaf -blades elliptic to 

 ovate, 4-12 cm. long, short-acuminate, pale beneath, long-petioled : panicles 

 slender-peduncled : sepals 1-1.5 mm. long: drupes globose to oval-globose, 6-9 

 mm. in diameter. CAMPHOR-TREE. 



Woods and thickets, pen. Fla. Nat. of China and Japan. (W. I.) 



2. TAMALA Eaf. Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, persistent: blades 

 entire. Flowers in axillary peduncled cymes. Sepals 6, dissimilar. Style 

 long-columnar: stigma capitate. Drupe equilateral. Spr. 



Peduncles, pedicels and petioles glabrous or appressed-pubescent : fruit over 1 cm. 



thick. 

 Leaf-blades glabrous or nearly so, except sometimes the nerves 



beneath. 1. T. HttoraUs. 



Leaf-blades lustrous-pubescent beneath. 2. T. humilis. 



Peduncles, pedicels and petioles tomentose : fruit less than 1 cm. 



thick. 3. T. pubescens. 



1. T. littoralis Small. Shrub or tree: ieaf -blades elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 

 2-5.5 cm. long, mostly obtuse at the apex, bright-green and lustrous above, 

 pale and glabrous beneath, not reticulate, the lateral veins inconspicuous: 

 fruits globular, 12-14 mm. long, purple-black under the bloom. [Persea 

 littoralis Small.] SHORE-BAY. 



Coastal hammocks, lower e. coast. (Endemic.) 



2. T. humilis (Nash) Small. Shrub or small tree, the twigSj lower leaf- 

 surfaces and the inflorescence silky-pubescent: leaf-blades elliptic or oblong, 

 4-10 cm. long, more or less revolute, glabrous and shining above, lustrous 

 beneath: sepals erect, obtuse, the inner oblong, 5 mm. long: fruits globular, 

 about 1.5 cm. long, purplish-black under the bloom. [Persea humilis Nash.] 

 SILK-BAY. 



Scrublands, cent. pen. Fla. (Endemic.) 



