04 UUDEK 26. CAMELLIACE^E. 



TAMARIX GALLICA. Characters mainly as given in the Order. P. t 

 and fta. 5. A beautiful shrub, lOf, with virgate branches, bearing numerous exceedingly 

 delicate racemes of flesh-colored fls. Lvs. lance-subulate, clasping. Eur. Nearly hardy 



ORDER XXV. TILIACE^E. LINDENBLOOMS. 



'Jrt.es or shrubs (rarely herbs) with simple, stipulate, alternate, dentate 

 leaves, with floicers axillary, hypogynous, usually perfect and polyadel- 

 phous ; with the sepals 4 or 5, deciduous, valvate in bud, the petals 4 or 5, 

 imbricated. Stamen* oo, with 2-celled, versatile anthers. Ovary of 2 10 

 united carpels, and a compound style. Fruit dry or succulent, many-celled, 

 or 1 -celled by abortion. Embryo in the axis of fleshy albumen. 



1- CORCHORUS, L. Sep. and pet. 4 or 5. Stam. oo, rarely as few 

 as the petals. Style veiy short, deciduous, stig. 2 to 5. Caps, roundish or 

 siliquose, 2-5-celled, many-seeded. 5 Flowers yellow. 



C. alliquosus L. Lvs. ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, equally serrate. 4 times longer 

 than the petioles ; caps, siliquose, linear, 2-valved. La. to Fla. Flowers 4-m<!ronB. 



2. TILIA, L. LINDEN or LUTE TREE. Calyx of 5, united sepals, 

 colored. Cor. of 5, oblong, obtuse petals, crenate at apex. Stam. oo, 

 somewhat polyadelphous, each set (in the N. American species) with a 

 petaloid scale (staminodium) attached at base. Ov. superior, 5-cellfd, 

 2-ovuled. Caps, globous, by abortion 1 -celled, 1-2-seeded. ^> Lvs. cor- 

 date. Fls. cymous, cream-white, with the peduncle adnate to the vein o* 

 a large leaf-like bract. 



StaminodiaS, petaloid, opposite the petals. Leaves mucronate-serrate Nos. 1, 2 



$ Staminodia none. Stamens scarcely cohering No. 3 



1 T. A mericana L. Bass-wood. Lvs. hroad cordate, unequal at base, acuminate, 



coriaceous, smooth, and green on both sides ; pet. truncate or obtuse at apex ; sty. as 

 long as the petals. Woods', N. and M. States. 70f. June. Timber valuable. 

 /3. Wdlteri. Lvs. pubescent (but green) beneath. A large tree. Va. to Fla. 



2 T. heteropli/lla Vent. White Bass-wood. Lvs. obliquely subcordate, scarceij 



acuminate, white and velvety beneath, shining, and dark green above ; pet. obtuse, 

 crenulate ; sty. hairy at base, longer than the petals. River banks, W. 40f. 

 j3. alba. Lvs. whitish and minutely tomentous beneath, serratures fine and long- 

 mucronate. Ky. and South along the mountains. 80f. 



3 X. ETJROP^EA L. Lime Tree. Lvs. suborbicnlar, obliquely cordate, abruptly acumi- 



nate, serrulate, twice as long as the petioles, glabrous except a woolly tuft in the 

 axils of the veins beneath. Parks. 40f. t Eur. 



ORDER XXVI. CAMELLIACE^E. CAMELLIAS or TEA WORTS. 



Trees or shrubs with alternate, simple, feather-veined, exstipulate leave*. 

 Flowers regular, polyandrous, hypogynous, cyanic, with sepals and petalf 

 imbricated, the former often unequal in size. Stamens more or less cohe- 

 rent at base into one, three, or five sets. Anthers 2-celled. Seeds few, with 

 little or no albumen. Cotyledons large. 



8 Calyx of many imbricated sepals. Stamens monadelp)iouB , CAMELLIA. 1 



| CaljT niraple. Stamens united at the base into one set STOARTIA. 3 



Stnmens in 5 sets, adhering to the base of the petala GOHUONIA. .' 



