220 STOEAX FAMILY. 



inserted on the tube of the corolla : anthers turned inwards. Berry edible 

 when very ripe, plum-like, globular, surrounded at base by the persistent 

 thickish calyx. Fl. early summer. 



D. Virginitoa, Common p. Southern New England to Illinois and S. : 

 tree 20° - 60° high, with very hard blackish wood, neariy smooth thickish ovate 

 leaves, very short peduncles, 4-parted calyx, pale yellow 4-cleft corolla, 4 styles 

 2-lobed at tip, 8-celled ovary, and plum-like fruit green and very acerb, but yel- 

 low, sweet, and eatable after frost. 



67. BUMELIACE^, SAPPODILLA FAMILY. 



Mainly tropical trees or shrubs, with hard wood, and in other 

 respects also resembling the last family, but mostly with milky 

 juice, perfect flowers, anthers turned outwards, erect ovules, and 

 bony-coated seeds. Eepresented S. by a few species of 



1. BUMELIA. (Ancientnameof a kind of Ash, transferred to this genus.) 

 Flowers small, white or whitish, in clusters in the axils of the leaves. Calyx 

 5-parted. Corolla 5-cleft, and with a pair of internal appendages between the 

 lobes, 5 good stamens before them, and as many petal-like sterile ones or 

 scales alternating. Ovary 5-celled, hairy: style 1, pointed. Fruit cherry- 

 like, containing a single large stony-coated seed. Small trees or shrubs, with 

 branches often spiny, and deciduous but thickish leaves entire. Fl. summer : 

 fruit purple or blackish. Natives of river-banks, &c. 

 B. lycioides, from Virginia to Illinois and S., is smooth, with obovate- 



oblong or lance-wedge-shaped leaves 2' - 4' long, and greenish flowers. 

 B. tfenax, still more southern, has smaller leaves brown-silky underneath, 



and a shorter white corolla. 

 B. Ianugin6sa, in dry soil from S. Illinois S. ; has leaves rusty-hairy or 



woolly beneath, and white corolla. 



68. STYRACACE-ffi, STORAX FAMILY. 



Shrubs or trees, with alternate simple leaves, perfect flowers with 

 4-8 petals more or less united at the base, and bearing twice as 

 many or indefinitely numerous partly monadelphous or polyadel- 

 phous stamens, only one style, and a 1 - 5-celled 1-5-seeded fruit. 

 Ovules as many as 2 in each cell. Calyx in ours coherent more or 

 less with the 2 - 4-celIed ovary. 



1 ST YR AX. Flowers from the axils of the leaves, white, showy, on drooping pe- 

 duncles. Calyx scarcely 0-toothed, its base coherent merely with the base of 

 the 3-celled many-ovuled ovary. Corolla open bell-shapec^ mostly 5-parted, 

 rather tlowny outside. Stamens twice as many as the lobes of the corolla, 

 with fl.at filaments monadelphous at base, and linear anthers. Fruit drv" 



o u If IcT a' ""'S "™'^1'.>^ only one globular hard-coated seed at its base. 



Hpr-w, ™,= ,I„l lu f^«<='«l«.^ on hanging pedicels from the axils of the 

 tnl»^I^n f °^ ""^.Pe'ie'ling J'ear, white, showy. Calyx 4-toothed, the 

 hpM ,lTnni f T"^ S:'"' "'^ 2 -4-oelled ovary. Petals 4, or united into a 

 n^ hlr^'^l^in f- ^'''n^'T ^-^^'- fil'iments monadelphous at the base: 

 anthers hnear-oblong. Ovules 4 in each cell. Fruit large and drv 2-4- 



Ser'cllh ° "-^ "" '™°''y """^ 1-4-ceUed, a single seed filling each 

 3. SYMPLOCOS Flowers vellow in the axils of the thickish leaves, not droop- 

 vL^ s T ; ' ,<'ol><"-™t with the lower part of the 3-celled ovar^ 

 Th^ iL^' ^Tv,''' r"''^'/^P'\™*^- ^^^""^^ ■'«'y "i^ny ;» 5 clusters, one 

 ^w V -f 1 n^H f«^^h petal: filaments very slender: anthers 'very 

 short. Fruit 1-celled, 1-seeded,- small and dry. ^ 



