160 GAKRYACE^I. 



Order LI. GARRYACE/E. 



Consists of the genus 



1. GARRYA, Douglas. Evergreen shrubs with greenish bark, and 

 opposite entire coriaceous leaves. Flowers dioecious, in axillary pend- 

 ulous aments, solitary or in threes between the decussately connate 

 bracts. Petals 0. Calyx of sterile flowers 4-parted, with linear valvate 

 segments. Stamens 4; filaments distinct; disk and rudimentary ovary 0. 

 Calyx of fertile flower with a shortly 2-lobed or obsolete limb; disk and 

 rudimentary stamens 0; ovary 1-celled, with 2 pendulous ovules; styles 

 2, stigmatic on the inner side, persistent. Fruit capsular, circumscissile 

 at about the middle, or indehiscent. Seeds coated, with an acidulous or 

 bitter red pulp which is never in contact with the wall of the pericarp, 

 the inside of this being glabrous and polished. 



1. G. elliptica, Dougl. Stems clustered, 5 — 15 ft. high: leaves % — 3 

 in. long, dark green, elliptical, rounded or acute and mucronate at apex, 

 truncate or rounded at base, the margin undulate, glabrous above, 

 tomentose beneath: aments solitary or several; the sterile 4 — 10 in. long, 

 their silky bracts truncate or acute; calyx-segments cohering at tip: 

 fertile aments stouter, 2 — 6 in. long; bracts acute or acuminate: ovary 

 sessile, densely silky-tomentose : fr. globose, 4 lines thick. — In rich 

 shady places along streams. Fl. Feb. ; f r. Sept. 



2. G. Fremonti, Torr. Shrub 5—10 ft. high, glabrate: leaves light 

 green, ovate or oblong, not undulate, Y% — 2% in. long: aments 2 — 3 in. 

 long, with acute somewhat silky bracts: ovaries nearly glabrous; fr. 

 globose, 2 lines or more in thickness, short-pedicellate. — From Mt. 

 Hamilton northward, on dry slopes and summits. 



