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ters. Flowers small, green, yellow or rarely whitish, hermaphrodite 

 or more or less dioecious, regular calyx alone present as a floral whorl, 

 of three to six small sepals. Stamens four to twelve in several rows 

 of three to four each; anthers opening by recurved valves (valvular 



PIG. 189. Cinnamomum zeylanicum Branch. (Sayre.) 



dehiscence). Pistil monocarpilary, ovary superior one-celled with 

 solitary pendulous ovule, style simple with usually rounded stigma. 

 Fruit a succulent berry (Spicebush and "Bacca laurea") or a suc- 

 culent drupe (Sassafras). 



