Genus i. 



STORAX FAMILY. 



723 



I. Styrax americana Lam. Smooth 

 Storax. Fig. 3310. 



Styrax americana Lam. Encycl. i : 82. 1783. 



A shrub 4°-io° high, the foliage glabrous 

 or very nearly so throughout. Leaves 

 green on both sides, oblong, oval or obovate, 

 acute or obtuse at the apex, narrowed at 

 the base, entire, or toothed, 1-3' long, i'-ii' 

 wide; petioles 2"-4" long, often scurfy 

 when young; flowers few in the mostly 

 short racemes or sometimes solitary, 4"-7" 

 long, about the length of their pedicels ; 

 calyx and pedicels glandular-dotted; petals 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute, puberulent on the 

 outer surface or glabrous, valvate or but 

 sHghtly overlapping in the bud ; fruit sub- 

 globose, puberulent, about 3" in diameter. 



In moist thickets and along streams, Vir- 

 ginia to Florida, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas 

 and Louisiana. Spring-orange. March-April. 



2. Styrax pulverulenta Michx. 

 Downy Storax. Fig. 331 1. 



Styrax pulverulenta Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 41. 

 1803. 



Similar to the preceding species, but the 

 lower surfaces of the leaves, the calyx and 

 pedicels are densely stellate-pubescent or 

 scurfy. Leaves oval or oblong, usually 

 acute at each end and denticulate, short- 

 petioled, i'-2\' long, pale beneath; flowers 

 in short terminal racemes and often in pairs 

 in the axils, 4"-7" long, usually longer than 

 ".heir pedicels; petals oblong-lanceolate, 

 icute, puberulent on both sides or only on 

 :he exterior, convolute or imbricated in the 

 bud ; fruit globose, puberulent, about 3" in 

 diameter. 



In moist woods and thickets, Virginia to 

 Florida, Arkansas and Texas March-April. 



3. Styrax grandifolia Ait. Large-leaved 

 Storax. Fig. 3312. 



Styrax grandifolia Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 75. 1789. 



A shrub, 5°-l2° high. Leaves obovate or oval, 

 dentate, denticulate or entire, short-petioled, 

 tomentose or canescent and pale beneath, green 

 and glabrous above, 2'-6' long, or on young 

 shoots much larger; flowers 5"-8" long, longer 

 than their pedicels, mostly several in loose 

 sometimes elongated racemes; rachis, pedicels 

 and calyx stellate-tomentose ; petals oblong, 

 acutish, imbricated or convolute in the bud, pu- 

 berulent without and often also within; fruit 

 obovoid, puberulent. about 4" long. 



In woods, Virginia to Florida and Alabama. 

 Mock-orange. March-May. 



1830. 



Family 13. OLEACEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst. 

 Olive Family. 

 Trees or shrubs (a fewr genera almost herbaceous) with opposite or rarely 

 alternate simple or pinnate exstipulate entire or dentate leaves and regular perfect 



