Cllftonia. OLACIXK.E. 393 



Jacq. Coll. i. 1G2, & Ic. Rar. t. 47; Midix. Fl. i. 1.37; riandi. Loud. Juiir. Hot. 

 V. 204. — A small genus, perhaps best regarded as a varialjie monotype of I'cmark- 

 able range. 



C. racemiflora, L. 1. c. 50. Slirub 10 to 12 feet higli : leaves cuueate-oblong or ohlancco. 

 late, iiiiiiiilL'sily reticulated upon botii sides, 1 to 3 inches long: sepals triangular: pet.-ils 

 oblung, acutish, contiguous at their broad bases: fruit scarcely more than a hue long, <lr/ 

 at maturity, inclined to separate into two parts. — Walt. Car! 103; Jac(i. 1. c. ; Ell. Sk. i. 

 294; Nutt. Sylv. ii. 96, t. 74.1 C. Cmolininiia, Alichx. Fl. i. 158. C. par v I folia, Sliuttl. 13ot! 

 Zeit. iii. 221, a small-leaved variety.^ Itea Cyrilla, Swartz, I'rodr. 50, & Obs. t. 4, f. 1 ; 

 L'ller. Stirp. t. 66; Willd. Spec. i. 1146. — Sandy and wet piue wood.s N- Carolina^ to 

 Florida and westward near tiie (iulf to Hardin Co., Texas, Nealleu ; fl. June. (W. Ind. ?, 

 Northern S. Am. ?) Linnanis wrongly described tlie fruit as a 2-vaived many-seeded capsule 

 and the petals as longitudinally villous inside. 



2. CLIFTONIA, Banks. Titi, Buckwheat-tree. {Francis Clifton, a 

 London physician, who travelled iu Jamaica, where he died, 173G.) — Leaves 

 coriaceous, scarcely reticulated. Flowers white or rose-colored in nodding racemes 

 terminating the branches of the preceding year. Bracts minute, caducous ; 

 bractlets none. — Banks in Gaertn. f. Fruct. iii. 246, t. 225; Endl. Gen. 1413; 

 Planch. 1. c. 255. Mylocaryum, Willd. Enum. 454, in note. Mylocarium, Ell. 

 Sk. i. 508 Walteriana, Fras. in Endl. Gen. 1413. — A monotype of the S. ¥.. 

 United States. 



C. nitida, G.kktn. f. l. c. 247. A shrub or small tree, 8 to 15 feet high, glabrous: leaves 

 obovate-oblong, 1 to 1^ inches long, siiining above, pale or glaucous beneath, evergreen: 

 racemes dense, 1 to 2 (to 4) inches long: petals 2 to 3 lines long: fruit 4 lines long. — C. 

 lifjustn'mi, Sims iu Sprcng. Syst. ii. 316; Nutt. Sylv. ii. 92, t. 73. Mylocaryum llguMrimtm, 

 Willd. 1. c. ; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1625; Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 445, f. 309. Af >/ hear i urn liyustri- 

 mm, Pursh. Fl. i. .302, t. 14 ; Ell. Sk. i. .508.< — Pine-barren swamps, S. Carolina to Alabama* 

 and Florida; fl. March. A plant of obscure aflSnities, exhibiting not one of tiie distinguish- 

 ing characters of the Malpighiaceas, to which Nuttall referred it. 



Order XL. OLACINEJi:. 



By A. Gray. 



Mostly tropical trees or shrubs, with alternate simple leaves, no stipules, and 

 regular flowers. Petals hypogynous, valvate in the bud and sometimes united into 

 a tube, and with the stamens inserted on the outside or margin of the disk ; the 

 latter of same number as and opposite the petals or twice as many. Ovarv 

 1 -celled or 2-5-celled only at base, whence rises a placental axile column (in the 

 manner of Santalacece) , bearing on its apex 2 to 4 pendulous anatropous ovules 

 with dorsal rhaphe (i. e. micropyle next the placenta) ; style only one with ter- 



1 Add lit. Sargent, Silv. ii. 3, t. 51. 



2 Add syn. C. racemosn. Loud. Arb. iv. 2.577, f. 2503. C. polystachia, p^irvi folia, &fuscaia, Raf. 

 Aut. Hot. 8. Amlrnmedn pluinnta, "Bart. Cat" Marsh. Arb. 9. 



3 S. E. Vir^jinia, //tiler. 



* .Villi syn. Plt^lffi mimnphylln. Earn. III. i. .3.30. Wnlterinna CaroUnienflf, Cat. Ilort. Fraser, 3. 

 Cliftouiii monophylln, Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, xvi. 310 ; Sargent, Silv. ii. 7, t. 52. 

 6 Westward to E. Louisiana, ace. to Sargent, 1. c. 



