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Order XLII. CALYCANTHACEiE. 



Sepals and petals confounded, rEstivation imbricate, formed 

 at the base into an urccolate tube ; segments colored, petal- 

 like. Stamens numerous inserted into the tube of the calvx ; 

 anthers adnate, extrorse. Seeds numerous, contained in an 

 enlarged ventricose calyx. 



Gents I. CALYCANTHUS. 



Lobes of the calyx in several series, lanceolate, colored, 

 more or less fleshy. Stamens numerous, outer ones fertile. 

 Flowers purple, odorous when bruised. 



Carolina Allspice. Sweet Shrub. 



1. C. Floridtts. Small shrub. Leaves oval or ovate-lanceolate, often pu- 

 bescent beneath, acute, branchlets tomentose. Flovxrs solitary ; segments 

 disposed in two rows. Suseet S^rui. 



Purple, h- March— June. Shady places. 4-6 feet. 



2. C. IxoDORors. A shrub yf\ih glabrous, >nrgate branches. Leaves en- 

 tire, acuminate, shining on the upper surface, pubescent along the veins on 

 the under surface. Flovxrs larger than the preceding, terminal, axillary 

 segments in several series. 



Purple, ^i- March to April. Low country. 4~6 feet. 



3. C- Ljevigatus. Leaves large, oval, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous ; 

 -^^^gments of the perianth lanceolate- 



Purple- h- -March— Apnl- Along streams- 4-6 feet- 

 4- C- Glaucus- a ."hrub with expanding branches, glabrous- Leaves 



large, lanceolate, with a long acuraination, glaucus underneath ; segment* 



of me perianth lanceolate- 

 Purple- h- ^^*y — June- Upper districts of Georgia. 4-6 fee u 



Order XLIII. MELASTOMACEiE. 



Sepals 4, combined into an urceolate tube, cohering to the 

 ovary. Petals 4, alternate with the segments of the caly.x, 

 inserted into its throat ; aestivation twisted. Stamens 4-8. 

 Anthers adnate, declined. Ovary 4-celled, with central 

 placental ; ovules numerous. Styles 1. Fruit capsular. 

 Seeds numerous, minute, anatropous. Herbs with opposite 

 ribbed leaves. 



Gexts I- RHEXIA- 



Tube of the calyx ventricose at the base, narrowed above 

 the ovary. Petals obovate, or roundish. Anthers l-celled, 

 with a thick connectivum. S/^e declined. Stigma obtuse. 

 Leaves generally sessile, 3.nerved. 



1. R. 1VLama5a. S<«n hirsute, terete, furrowed. Lravcs lanceolate, atten- 

 naie at the baae. hispid, serrate ciliate- Flowers axillary or terminal. Ca- 



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