MONOPETALOUS EXOGENOUS PLANTS. 377 



smooth ; corolla twice as long as the calyx ; pedicels twice 

 as long as the flower, shorter than the petioles. — A large 

 shrub or small tree; berry ovoid; floiuers green. 



B. LANUGINOSA, Pers. Corolla white, twice as long as 

 the calyx ; leaves 2-3' long, obovate-lanceolate or obovate, 

 coriaceous, the lower surface, like the branchlets and many- 

 flowered clusters, covered with a dense rusty villous pubes- 

 cence ; berry small, ovoid. — A tree or shrub. 



76. THEOPHRASTA FAMILY. Order, Theo- 



PHRASTACE.^. 



Trees or shrubs, with watery juice; leaves coriaceous, 

 often resinous-dotted, without stipules; flotvers perfect, 

 thick, white, orange, or red ; calyx 5-parted ; corolla 5-cleft, 

 with a single appendage between the lobes; stamens 5, fer- 

 tile, opposite the lobes of the corolla; anthers extrorse, 

 2-celled, the thickened connective prolonged above the 

 cells; ovary free, 1-celled, many-ovuled; placenta central, 

 globose ; stigma capitate ; fruit globose ; seeds few, inclosed 

 in gelatinous pulp ; embryo in the axis of copious albumen; 

 radicle inferior. 



77. MYRSINE FAMILY. Order, Myesinace^. 



Trees or shrubs, often glandular-dotted, with alternate 

 exstipulate mostly entire leaves, and regular, often monoe- 

 cious or dioe6ious, white or rose-colored /oz^'ers; calyx 4-6- 

 parted; corolla 4-6-cleft; stamens 4-6, opposite the lobes 

 of the corolla; anthers 2-celled, introrse; ovary mostly 

 free, 1-celled, smooth; ovules 1-many, imbedded in the 

 cavities of the central placenta; style simple; fruit drupa- 

 ceous, globose, somewhat fleshy, commonly 1-seeded; seeds 

 roundish, concave at the base; embryo transverse, in hard 

 albumen. 



