94 KEY AND FLORA 
36. CALYCANTHACEA. Cartycantuus FAMILY 
Shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire, without stipules. Flowers 
solitary, often sweet-scented. Sepals and petals numerous, 
the outer sepals bract-like. Stamens many, short, the inner 
ones usually sterile. Ovaries several, inserted on the inside 
of an irregular, hollow, pear-shaped receptacle something like 
a large rose hip, forming 1-seeded akenes in fruit. 
CALYCANTHUS L. (BUTNERIA) 
Shrubs, 4-8 ft. tall; branches opposite. Leaves oval, downy 
beneath, short-petioled ; both leaves and bark aromatic. Sepals 
and petals many, in several rows, somewhat fleshy, indistin- 
guishable. Pistils several, inserted on the inner side of the 
persistent calyx tube. Mature fruit pear-shaped, dry, inclos- 
ing the akenes.* 
1. C. floridus L. Sweet-Scentep Surus, STRAWBERRY Busu, 
Spice Busn, Surus. A widespreading bush, 4-8 ft. high; twigs 
downy. Leaves oval or oblong, acute or taper-pointed, rough above, 
downy beneath, 2-3 in. long. Flowers 1 in. wide, brownish-purple, very 
fragrant. Sepals united below to form a cup, on the inside of which 
the other parts of the flower are inserted; cup leafy-bracted on the 
outside. Banks of streams and rich hillsides S., often cultivated.* 
37. ANNONACEZ. Papaw Famity 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, pinnately veined. 
Flowers bisexual, hypogynous, axillary, solitary. Calyx of 3 
sepals; corolla of 6 thickish petals in 2 rows. Stamens many ; 
filaments very short. Pistils several or many, becoming fleshy 
or pulpy in fruit. 
ASIMINA Adans. 
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves deciduous. Flowers nodding. 
Sepals 3, ovate. Petals 6, the 3 outer ones larger and spread- 
ing. Stamens very numerous, crowded on the globular recep- 
tacle. Ovaries 3-15, sessile, 1-celled, several-ovuled. Fruit a 
large, fleshy, oblong berry ; seeds large, horizontal.* 
