130 MYRTACE.E. (MYRTLE FAMILY.) 



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1. CALYCANTHUS, L. SWEET-SCENTED SHRUB. 



Calyx -tube closed, leafy-bracted ; the lobes and petals in several rows, lanceo- 

 late, somewhat fleshy. Stamens deciduous. Mature fruit dry, pear-shaped, 

 enclosing the large achenia. Aromatic shrubs, with opposite or forking branch- 

 es, short-petioled deciduous leaves, and large brownish-purple terminal flowers. 



1. C. floridus, L. Branchlets, petioles, and peduncles hoary-pubescent; 

 leaves oval or oblong, mostly acute or acuminate, very rough on the upper 

 surface, tomentose and hoary beneath ; sepals and petals linear-lanceolate, acute. 



Banks of streams in the upper districts, North Carolina to Mississippi. April. 



Shrub 4 -8 high. Leaves 2' -3' long. Flowers 1' in diameter, very fra- 

 grant. 



2. C. laevigatus, Willd. Branchlets, petioles, and peduncles pubescent 

 or smoothish ; leaves oblong or elliptical, mostly acute or acuminate, rough on 

 the upper surface, paler and nearly smooth beneath ; sepals and petals linear- 

 lanceolate, acute. (C. inodorus, Ell, leaves very rough above, but shining ; 

 flowers inodorous.) Banks of streams, chiefly in the low country, Florida, 

 Georgia, and westward. March and April. Shrub 4 - 8 high. Leaves 2' - 

 3' long. Flowers 1^' in diameter. 



3. C. glauc US, Willd. Branchlets, petioles, and peduncles smooth ; leaves 

 large, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, green and roughish on the upper 

 surface, smooth and glaucous beneath ; flowers large, the sepals and petals lan- 

 ceolate, and abruptly sharp-pointed. Low shady woods along the mountains 

 of Georgia and North Carolina. May and June. Shrub 6 - 8 high. Leaves 

 rather rigid, 4' -7' long. Flowers lj'-2' in diameter. 



The POMEGRANATE (PUNICA GRANATUM, L.) belongs to the allied order 

 GRANATE^E. 



ORDER 50. MYRTACE^E. (MYRTLE FAMILY.) 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, simple, entire, dotted and commonly 

 with an intra-marginal vein. Stipules none. Calyx 4 - 6-cleft, valvate 

 in the bud, the tube adherent to the compound ovary. Petals 4-6, 

 inserted with the numerous stamens on the throat of the calyx, sometimes 

 wanting. Filaments long, free, or variously combined. Anthers introrse, 

 roundish, longitudinally dehiscent. Style solitary. Seeds without albu- 

 men, fixed to a central placenta. 



1. EUGENIA, Micheli. ALLSPICE. 



Calyx-tube roundish, the limb 4-cleft. Petals 4. Stamens distinct. Ovary 

 2 - 3-celled, with several ovules in each cell. Fruit baccate, roundish, 1 - 2-celled, 

 1-2-seeded. Cotyledons thick and united. Eadicle very short. Flowers 

 white, axillary, solitary, cymose, or clustered, 2-bracted. 



