542 CXL. STYEACEiE. 



Corolla monopetalous or sub-polypetalous, perigynous or epigynous. Stamens 

 inserted at the base of the corolla, free, or filaments cohering, definite or indefinite, 

 l-many-seriate. Ovary inferior or semi-inferior, of 2-5 2-many-ovuled cells; ovules 

 anatropous. Feuit usually fleshy. — Bitbrto albuminous, axile. 



Sheubs or SMALL TEEBS. Leaves alternate, simple, exstipulate. Plowees 

 racemed or solitary, axiUary, bracteate. Calyx 5-4-lobed. Coeolla usually 5- 

 (rarely 4-6- 7-) lobed, i.e. composed of 5-4-6-7 petals usually scarcely cohering at the 

 base, sometimes increased by an inner wborl of petals, adhering to the outer and 

 alternating with them, [gestivation various]. Stamens inserted at the base of the 

 corolla, free, or filaments cohering, 1-many-seriate, sometimes 8-10 ; sometimes 

 numerous, pentadelphous or monadelphous the longest bundles or stamens alter- 

 nating with the corolla-lobes; anthers 2-celled, dehiscence introrse or lateral. Ovaet 

 inferior or semi-inferior, 5-2-celled, cells opposite to the calyx -lobes when they equal 

 them in number ; style simple ; stigma small, capitate, lobed ; ovules geminate, or 

 many in each cell, all pendulous, or the lower horizontal or ascending, and the upper 

 pendulous, anatropous. Feuit usually fleshy, nearly always 1-celled by arrest. 

 Seeds 5-1 , usually solitary. Embetq straight, in the axis of a fleshy albumen ; 

 cotyledons flat ; radicle usually superior. 



Teibe I. Symploce^. — Corolla sub-polypetalous, sestivation quincunxial. 

 Stamens 1-many-seriate IS-oo , sometimes polyadelphous, sometimes 1 -seriate, 

 almost free, usually monadelphous. Anthers ovoid-globose. Ovules all pen- 

 dulous. 



ONLY GENUS. 

 Symplocos. 



Teibe II. Stteace^ Peopbe. — Corolla 5-partite, aestivation convolute or sub- 

 valvate. Stamens 1-seriate, 7-12 ; anthers elongated, adnate. Ovules, the lower 

 horizontal or ascending, the upper pendulous. 



PEINCIPAL GENERA. 

 * Styrax. * Halesia. 



[To the above A. De CandoUe adds a third tribe : — 



Teibe III. Pamphilie.s!. — Corolla 6-fid. or -partite, valvate. Stamens 5 or 10, connate at 

 the base and adnate to the corolla ; anthers elongate, tubular above. Ovary free ; ovules erect, 

 anatropous. South American trees. Paiivphilia, Foveolaria, — Ed.J 



Styracece are near Ehemacece (see that family). There is also an affinity butsveen Symplooeee and 

 CamelKacecB ; both have a woody stem, alternate leaves, sub-polypetalous or polypetalous corolla, and 

 imbricate sestivation ; the stamens are numerous and many-seriate, and the filaments polyadelphous ; and 

 in some genera of Camelliacea the style is simple, the ovary semi-inferira-, and the embryo albuminous. 

 StyracecE proper present some analogy with PhUadelphecB, in the woody stem, axillary and. terminal 

 flowers, free or nearly free petals, numerous stamens, inferior and many-celled ovary, and albuminous and 

 axile embryo ; but in PhiladelphecB the leaves are opposite and the fruit capsular. 



