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8. Petals numerous. 9. 

 Petals six to nine. 10. 



9. Flowers white. 

 Flowers rosy. 



10. Flowers white or lemon-shaded. 11.' 

 Flowers carmine or purplish shaded. 



11. Sepals very narrow. 



Sepals resembling the petals. 



12. Flowers white with light tinging. 

 Flowers deep-shaded without. 13. 



13. Flowers cup-shaped, early. 



Flowers pear-shaped, often continuing. 



M. stellata. 

 M. stellata rosea. 



12. 



M. Kobus. 



M. denudata. 



X M. Soulangeana. 



M. obovata. 

 X M. Lennei. 



Family CALYCANTHACEAE. Carolina Allspice Family. 



A small family of shrubs, of no great use but attractive 

 because of their fragrant flowers. 



CALYCANTHUS. Strawberry Shrub. 



Deciduous shrubs with moderate aromatic often 4-lined 

 twigs widened at the nodes; round or 6-sided homogeneous pale 

 pith; opposite elevated crescent-shaped leaf-scars with 3 bun- 

 dle-traces; no stipule-scars; ovoid sessile sometimes superposed 

 buds, the terminal usually absent, with about 4 opposite scales; 

 simple entire short-stalked moderate leaves; moderate lurid 

 axillary flowers often strawberry-scented, with many distinct 

 petals; and pear-shaped dry hypanthium enclosing large seed- 

 like akenes. (Butneria). 



1. Leaves very hairy beneath. C. floridus. 

 Leaves nearly or quite glabrous. 2. 



2. Leaves green beneath. C. floridus. 

 Leaves whitened beneath. C. fertilis glaucus. 



Family ANNONACEAE. Custard Apple Family. 

 A rather small family of succulent herbs, used in rockeries. 

 In the tropics, yielding such fruits as sour-sop, cherimoya, etc. 

 The name papaw properly belongs to the "papaya" of the 

 tropics (Carica). 



ASIMINA. "Papaw." 

 Deciduous shrubs or very small trees with rather smooth 



