Gordonia. CIIKI KANTIIOI )i:xi )|;k.E. 



203 



small trees (of E. United States and Asia), with mostly coriaceous leaves, nak.-.j 

 leaf-buds, showy axillary or subtcrniiiKii Mowers, and white petals.— Phil.' ']>:,„«. 

 Ix. 520, t. 11 ; (Catesb. Car. i. t. \\) ■ L. Maut. ii. 5oG ; Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 101 

 t. 140-142.1 



§ 1. GoKDUMA proper. Filaments short, on the snnnuil an.l inner surface 

 of live thickened disk-like lobes wiiicli are confluent at base into a cup or rini;: 

 petals well united at base: ca[)sule pointed with the base of the short style; 

 valves entire; seeds 4 or by abortion 2 in eacii cell, pendulous from its inner 



angle toward the base, membranaceous-winged upward. (irav, 1. c. 



G. Lasianthus, Ellis, 1. c. 523. (LoHLOLLY Bav.) Tree 60 to 80 feet h\p,\\, or ar»K>. 

 restciit sliiiih : leaves subsessile, lanceolate to ohloiig with tajK-ring Inmo, firm-coriiucoiM, 

 callims-seiTulate, sliiiuiig, 4 to 6 iiuhes Ion-;, tlu; veins inionspiciious : flowers ratlur Inn^- 

 pedunded: petals c-oncave, often 2 inches lonj,': capsule ovoid, canescent. — L .Mant ii 

 570; Cav. Diss. vi. 307, t. IGI ; Sims, Hot. Mag. t. 6G8 ; Lam. 111. iii. t. 504 ; Nouv. DuhauL 

 ii. t. 68; Michx. f. Hist. Arb. Am. iii. 131, t. 1 (L<is,/anlhus) ; Audubou, Birds Ain.r. t. 

 168 ; Gray, 1. c.-^ G. i>>/rami(lalis, Salisb. 1. c. 386. I/i/pericum Lusianthm, h. .Spec. ii. 7S3. 

 — Swamps, uear the coast, Virgiuia to Florida and Mississippi ; fl. earlv summer. 



§ 2. Franklinia, Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 223. Filaments elongated, in ."> 

 distinct clusters, each directly adnate to the base of one of the nearly distinct 

 petals: style slender, deciduous ; ovules 6 or 8 in each cell, downwardlv iml)ri- 

 cated: capsule globular, obtuse, loculicidally 5-valved from apex to below the 

 middle, and then septicidally from base upward ; seeds closely packetl on tlie 

 salient axile placenta?, angled by mutual pressure, wingless or nearly so ; end»rvo 

 unknown : leaves deciduous. — Gray, 1. c. 



G-. pubescens, L'Her. Tree or tall shrub: leaves submeml)ranaoeous and veiny, obovate- 

 sp,atulate, serrulate, canescently puberulent beneath, tajjcring at base, 8hort-j)etioled, 5 to 10 

 inches long : flowers sul)sessile, a.s large as of preceding anil more o]ien. — Stirp. Nov. vi. 

 156; Lam. Diet. ii. 770; Cav. Diss. vi. 308, t. 162; Vent. Malm. t. 1 ; Michx. f. Hist. Arb. 

 Am. iii. 135, t. 2; Audubon, Birds Amer. t. 185; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 223; Gray, Gen. 111. 

 t. 142, & 141 in part.' G. FrankUni, L'Her. 1. c.* Franklinia AlUimaha, ALirsh. Arbust. 

 49; Bartr. Trav. 16, 467. Michauxia sessilis, Salisb. 1. c. 386. Lnratfien rlonda.SixWah. 

 Parad. Lond. t. 56. — Near Fort Barrington on the Altamalia River, coll. Bnrtram, but not 

 since found : now known onlv in cultivation ; fl. summer. 



Order XXV. CHEIRANTIIODENDRE.E. 



By a. Gray. 



Trees or shrubs, with rusty furfuraceous-tomentulose stellular pubesccn<-o, 

 alternate palmately lobed leaves, small caducous stipules, and hermaphrodito 

 terminal flowers simply pentamerous throughout, but apetalous. ("aly.\ deeply 

 5-parted, colored but persistent, strongly quincuncial-imbricated, within more or 

 less nectariferous-pitted at base, subtended by 3 caducous or deciduous bracllela. 



i Add svn. Lasifinthiif, .Adnns. Fani. ii. 398. 



2 Add S"arfrent, Silv. i. 41, t. 21. 



8 A.ld Siuafrue & Goodale, Wild FIowor<". 194, t. 47. 



4 Add syn. G. Altamalia, Sargent, Gard. & For. ii. GIG, & Silv. i. 45, t. 22. 



