SIMARUBEiE 



= small white filaments ; Ovary large, stigma 4-lobed ; Fruit a drupe, 

 oblate, glossy, in panicled clusters, bright vermilion-red. 



Leaves alternate, elliptic-obovate, entire, firm, smooth, bright green, 

 slightly arched, shortly petiolate or sub-sessile, 3-5 ins. long, 2 ins. broad. 



An evergreen shrub. 



Introduced from Japan, 1864; male plant said to be S. fragrans, known 

 in gardens as S. Jragrantissima. 



REDDISH SKIMMIA, Skimmia rubella. 



Gardens. March. 



Flowers greenish -white, odorous, buds tinted with red; Infloreseence a 

 dense thyrsus ; Fruit a drupe. 



Leaves alternate, lanceolate -elliptic, coriaceous, entire, acute, petiolate, 

 exstipulate. 



Native of China; introduced 1874; a seedling form of *S'. Fortune'/. 



Class I Dicotyledons 



Division I Thalamiflorce 



Natural Order . . . Simarvtbeo? 



Trees or shrubs, with usually alternate, exstipulate, pinnate leaves, and 

 hermaphrodite, sometimes polygamous, flowers ; Calyx 3-5-lobed or partite ; 

 Petals 3-5, or rarely wanting ; Stamens as many, or twice as many, as petals, 

 rarely indefinite, inserted at the base of a hypogynous disk ; Ovary superior, 

 4-5 lobed and celled ; Fruit a drupe, capsule, or samara. 



TREE OF HEAVEN, Ailantkus ghndulosa. 



Parks, gardens, avenues. August. This handsome tree, with its pinnate 



leaves 2-3 ft. long, is a desirable specimen to stand singly on a lawn. It 



grows with great rapidity for the first 10-12 years, but afterwards its 



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