438 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
singly or in variable numbers from a little axillary bud; they are 
more rarely united into a sort of raceme or corymb on a common 
leafless axis. 
Next to Zetranthera and Cylicodaphne come three genera with nearly 
a similar flowers enclosed in -scaly buds. The 
Tetranthera japonica, : : . G 
_ flowers are solitary in Dodecadenia, numerous mn 
ee Actinodaphne and Litsea; of these last two 
fo genera the former has nine stamens, the latter 
oo from four to six. 
0609 0 is bl; 
wy) Daphnidium, in other respects resembling 
ap Actinodaphne, has two-celled anthers. ‘This is 
Nearseae also the case in Polyadenia, Aperula, Lindera, 
Fra. 257, and Laurus; but in these the flowers are sur- 
ee flower, rounded, not by bud-scales, but by an involucre 
comparable to that of Zetranthera. In Aperula 
there are from six to nine fertile stamens, and the innermost 
(from four to six) have lateral basilar glands. In Polyadenia all the 
stamens possess these. In Lindera' (the Benzoin-plants), of which 
an American species has long been cultivated in our gardens under 
the name of Laurus Benzoin, the flowers (figs. 258-260) are dicecious, 
Lindera Benzoin, 
Fria. 258. 
Male flower (2). 
Fie, 259. 
Female flower (3). 
Fig. 260, 
Long. section of female flower. 
with a perianth of six caducous leaves. The stamens, sterile in the 
female flower, are nine in number, all fertile introrse and two-celled, 
in the male. It is usually only the three innermost that have the 
1Tuunz., Fl. Jap., 9, 145, t. 21.—Enpt., 
Gen., n, 6818.—MeEtssn., Prodr,, 248.—Ben- 
zoin Nuss, in Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar., ii. 61, 63 ; 
Syst., 486, 493.—ENDL., Gen., u. 2057. 
20, Hort. Cliff, 1384; Spec., 1, 580.—W., 
Spec., ii. 485.—Punrsu, Fl. Amer. Sept., i, 276. 
LL. pseudo-Benzoin Micux,, Fl, Bor.-Amer., 
i, 243.—Evosmus Benzoin Nurt., Gen. Amer., 
i, 259.—Benzoin odoriferum Nrxs, Syst. 497. 
—Lindera estivalis Bu., Mus. Lugd.-Bat., i. 
324.—L, Benzoin Muissn., Prodr., 244, n. 1.— 
Arbor virginiana citre- v, limoniifolia COMMEL., 
Hort. Amst., i, 189, t. 197.—PuvxEn., Almag., 
43, t. 139, fig. 3, 4, 
