266 EBENACEJE. (eBONY FAMILY.) 



^cther in the axils and at the tips of the branches. — Low pine barrens, Virginia 

 (Pursh) and southward. — Shrub l°-4° high. 



3. S. Americana, Lam, Leaves oblong, acute at both ends (1 -3 

 long), smooth, or barely pulverulent beneath; flowers axillary or in S-i^ flowered 

 racemes (^' long) ; corolla valvate in the bud. (S. glabruin and S. Isevo, Ell.) — 

 Margin of swamps, Virginia and southward. May. — Shrub 4° - 8° high. 



2. HAIiESIA, Ellis. Snowdrop or Silvek-bell-Teke. 



Calyx invei-sely conical, 4-toothed ; the tube 4-ribbed, coherent with the 2 - 4- 

 celled ovary. Petals 4, united at the base, or oftener to the middle, into an open 

 bell-shaped corolla, convolute or imbricated in the bud. Stamens 8-16 : fila- 

 ments united into a ring at the base, and usually a little coherent with the base 

 of the corolla : anthers linear-oblong. Ovules 4 in each cell. Pruit large and 

 dry, 2-4-winged, within bony and 1 -4-celled. Seeds single in each coll, cylin- 

 drical. — Shrubs or small trees, with largo and veiny pointed deciduous leaves, 

 and showy white flowere, drooping on slender pedicels, in clusters or short ra- 

 cemes, from axillary buds of the preceding year. Pubescence partly stellate. 

 (Named for S. Sales, author of Vegetable Statics, &c.) 



1. H. tetrdptera, L. Leaves oblong-ovate; fruit 4-winged. — Baniss 

 of streams, upper part of Virginia, also on the Ohio River at Evansville (Short), 

 and southward. Fruit Ij' long. 



3. S'i'MPL.OCOS, Jacq. § HOPEA, L. Swebt-Leaf. 



Oalyx 5-cleft, the tube coherent with the lower part of the 3-celled ovary. 

 Petals 5, imbricated in the bud, lightly united at the base. Stamens very nu- 

 merous, in 5 clusters, one cohering mth the base of each petal : filaments slen- 

 der: anthers very short. Fruit drupe-like or dry, mostly 1-ccllcd and 1-seedcd. 

 — Shnibs or small trees ; the leaves commonly turning yellowisli in drying, and 

 furnishing a yellow dye. Flowers in axillaiy clusters or racemes, yellow. 

 (Name (Ti\i7rXoKos, connected, from the union of the stamens. Hopea was dedi- 

 cated to Dr. Hope, of Edinburgh.) 



1. S. tiuctoria, L'Her. (Horsb-Sugae, &c.) Leaves elongated-ob- 

 long, acute, obscurely toothed, thickish, almost persistent, minutely pubescent 

 and pale beneath (3' - 5' long) ; flowers 6-14, in close and bracted clusters, 

 odorous. — Rich ground, Virginia and southward. April. — Leaves sweet, 

 greedily eaten by cattle. 



Order 66. EBENACE^. (Ebony Family.) 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate entire leaves, and polygamous regular fiow- 

 ers which have a calyx free from the 3-1 1-celled ovary ; the stamens 2-4 

 times as many as the lobes of the corolla, often in pairs before them, their 

 anthers turned inwards, and the fruit a several-celled berry. Ovules 1 or 2, 

 suspended from the summit of each cell. Seeds anatropous, mostly single in 

 each cell, large and flat, with a smooth coriaceous integument ; the embryo 



