126 SYMPLOCACEAE 



Family SYMPLOCACEAE. 

 An unimportant small family. 



SYMPLOCOS. Sweet Leaf. 



Deciduous or subevergreen shrubs or small trees with pale 

 wood with minute scattered ducts 1 and very fine medullary rays ; 

 slender or rather stout terete twigs; roundish pith with firmer 

 diaphragms; alternate low half-round leaf -scars with a single 

 curved bundle-trace; no stipule-scars; round superposed bud? 

 with several exposed scales; moderately small short-petioled 

 leaves; small perfect somewhat gamopetalous yellow flowers 

 crowded in axillary racemes; and dry mostly 1-seeded drupes. 

 Leaves deciduous, thin, serrate. S. paniculata. 



Leaves half-evergreen, firm, entire. S. tinctoria. 



Family STYRACACEAE. Storax Family. 

 A small and unimportant family except for the following 

 decorative shrubs or small trees. 



HALESIA. Silver Bell. 



Deciduous small trees with thin shredding bark; brownish 

 wood with minute diffused ducts and very fine medullary rays; 

 moderate roundish twigs; roundish chambered rather small 

 pith; alternate somewhat raised half-round leaf-scars with a 

 single large but rather indefinite curved bundle-trace; no sti- 

 pule-scars; sessile ovoid sometimes superposed buds w T ith 

 several exposed scales; rather large petioled leaves; perfect 

 gamopetalous funnel- or bell-shaped rather large white flowers, 

 slender-pedicelled at the nodes; and hard indehiscent winged 

 fruits. (Mohrodendron). 



1. Fruit 4-winged. 2. 



Fruit 2-winged. H. diptera. 



2. Corolla tapered at the base. H. Carolina. 

 Corolla bell-shaped. H. Carolina Meehani. 



STYBAX. 



Shrubs or small trees with pale wood with small crowded 

 vernal ducts, minute summer ducts, and very fine medullary 



