600 EL^AGNACEJE tJMBBLLnLAEiA 



SHBFHESUIA 



Ohdee LXXIX LAURACEJE Lipdl, Nat. Syst. ed. 2, 200. 



Aromatic trees or shrubs with alternate, very rarely opposite, 

 mostly thick, petioled leaves without, stipules and small flowers 

 in panicles, racemes or umbels. Calyx 4- 6- parted, the seg- 

 ments imbricated in 2 series in the bud. Stamens inserted in 

 3 or 4 series of 3, on the cjaly^, distinct, sopie of them often im- 

 perfect or reduced to staminoidea: anthers 2-celled or 4-celled 

 opening by valves. Ovary superior, free from the calyx, 1-cell- 

 ed with a solitary anatropouS pendulAus ovule. Style filiform 

 or short, rarely almost wanting: stigma discoid or capitate. 

 Fruit a drupe or berry. Embryo filling the seed, with large 

 plano-convex cotyledons and short included radicle. 



1 UMBELLTJ,LARIA i^Htt. Sylv. i, 87. 



Shrubs or trees with alternate thick evergreen leaves and small 

 perfect flowers in axillary umbels which are included before ex- 

 pailsion in involucres consisting of 4 broad caducous bracts. 

 Calyx deciduous, 6-parted. Stamens 9, inserted on the throat in 

 3 rows, the 3 inner ones with a flieshy 2-lobed stipitate gland on 

 each side at base, alternating with Sligulate staminoidea: anthers 

 4-celled, 4-valved, the outer introrse, the inner extrorse. Stigma 

 dilated, somewhat lobedi , Drupe subglobose, subtended by the 

 thickened base of the calyxv 



r. Californica Nutt. Sylv i, 87. A handsome shrub or tree 10-70 feet 

 high or more, young branches, petioles and inflorescence somewhat pnberu- 

 lent: leaves green, and. shining.' t lanceolate-oblong, acute at each' end or 

 sometimes rounded at base, S-^inches long/ short-petioled, very aromatic: 

 peduncles in an apparently terminal panicle,, or solitary in the upper axils, 

 6-12 lines long, 6-10-flowered : involucral bracts ovate, imbricated : pedicels 

 1-5 lines long, usually bracteate at base: sepals yfllowish-green lJ^-3 lines 

 long, oblong to ovate : stamens includi-d : drupes on short Ftout peduncles, 

 ovate-elliptical or globo-^e, nearly an inch long. Along streams, southwes- 

 tern Oregon to California. 



Oedek LXXX EI^^AGN^CEiE Lindl. 1. c. 194. 



Shrubs or trees, mostly silvery-scaly or stellate-pubescent, 

 with entire alternate or opposite leaves and perfect polygamous 

 or dioecious flowers clustered in the axils or at the nodes of 

 branohlets of the previous season, rarely solitary. Lower part 

 of the calyx of pistillate flowers tubular or urn-shaped, enclos- 

 ing the oyary and persistent, the upper part 4-lobed or 4-cleft 

 deciduous : calyx of the staminate flowers 4-parted or 2-parted.. 

 Stamens 4 or 8 : those of perfect flowers borne on the throat of 

 the calyx : anthers 2-celled, the cells longitudinally dehiscent. 

 Ovary 1-celled, with a solitary anatropous er,ect ovule. Fruit 

 drupe-like, the base of the calyx becoming thickened and en- 

 closing the achene or nut. Embryo straight, with little or no 

 albumen. . . i 



