CALYCANTIIACEtfl AND MELASTOMACE/F. HI 



18. CYDONIA. Tourn. 



Named from Cydonia, a town in Crete, from whence it was brought. 



Calyx urn-shaped, limb 5-clcft. Petals 5. Stamens 

 many. Styles 5. PoME5-carpelled; carped cartilaginous, 

 many-seeded. Seeds covered with mucilaginous pulp. — 

 Trees or shrubs, with simple leaves, and mostly solitary flowers. 



C. vulgaris, Pers. Quince. 



Leaves oblong-ovate, obtuse at base, acute at apex, very entire, smooth above, 

 tqjnentose beneath ; peduncles solitary, and with the calyx woolly; jx»ne tomen- 

 tose, obovoid. Shrubs about 8 to 12 feet high, with crooked straggling branches. 

 Flowers white, with a tinge of purple, large, terminal. Fruit clothed with a soft 

 down, yellow when ripe, highly esteemed for jellies and preserves. 



C. Japoxica, or Scarlet Fyrus, a low straggling 6hrub with beautiful scarlet 

 showy flowers, is occasionally met with in cultivation. 



Order 41. C ALYC 1ETTHACEJE. 



Shrubs with square stems exhibiting 4 axis of growth stirrounding the central on*, 

 with opposite, entire, simple leaves, without stiptdes, and axillary solitary flowert. 

 Sepals and petals confounded, indefinite, imbricate, combined in a fleshy tub«. 

 Ovaries several, simple. Achenia hard, enclosed in the calyx-tube. 



CALYCANTHUS. Linn. 



Gr. halux, a calyx and anthos, a Jlower; the calyx resembling a corolla. 



Lobes of the calyx imbricated in many rows, lanceolate, 

 colored, all more or less leathery or fleshy. Stamens about 

 12, unequal, deciduous, the outer ones fertile. Anthers 

 extrorse. — rShrubs with lurid purple, fragrant flowers, and 

 with the bark and leaves exhaling the odor of camphor. 



C. Floridus, L. var. Iwvigatus, Torr. & Gr. Sweet 

 Scented Shrub. Carolina Allspice. 



Leaves oblong or oval, gradually acuminate, somewhat rugose, smooth and green 

 on both sides; branches straight, erect; lobes of the calyx lanceolate. 



Mountains and fertile soils along streams; rare. May, June. A handsome 

 shrub, cultivated in gardens, 4 to 6 feet high. Flowers large, solitary, terminal. 

 Calyx brownish-purple, very fragrant. 



Order 41. MELASTOMACEffi. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees, with opposite mostly entire ribbed leaves, and terminal 

 solitary or cymosc flowers. Anthers opening by pores at the apex; otherwise mue\ 

 at in 0N0GRACE.B. (Evening Primrose Family.) 



1. RHEXIA. Linn. Meadow Beauty. 



Calyx-tube urn-shaped ; narrowed at the apex ; the limb 



