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NATURAL ARRANGEMENT. 



346. Order CXIX. STYRACFNE.E. 



Genera 2, Species 7 ; Hot-house Species 0 ; Green-house Species 0 ; Hardy Ligneous Specie3 7 ; 

 Hardy Herbaceous Species 0. f 23 feet ; £ 0 feet ; ^=0 feet 



Elegant trees with white flowers, chiefly natives of North America The Stfrax officinale affords the 

 officinal storax of Asiatic Turkey, which issues from incisions made in the bark. The Halesto tetrapteris is 

 the well-known snowdrop tree, with its pendulous white flowers. Cuttings, layers, or seeds. 



1352 Styrax L. 4 0 1 1432 Halfesia L. 3 0 



347. Order CXX. MYRSI'NEiE. 



Genera 8, Species 52 ; Hot-house Species 31 ; Green-house Species 21 ; Hardy Ligneous Species 0 ; 

 Hardy Herbaceous Species 0. JO feet ; £ 0 feet ; 0 feet. 



Showy shrubs, with evergreen undivided leaves, and cymes of white or red flowers. The Ardisias are com- 

 mon in collections. None are natives of Europe, but are found in the hot parts of Asia, Africa, and America. 

 Nothing is known of their properties. Cuttings and seeds. 



581 Mce-sa J. 1 669 Corynocarpus Forst. I 570 MangUlla J. 



560 Jacquinw L. 572 Embetia Brm. I 527 Clavlja Fl Per. 



571 Ardisia Swz. I 2891 A/yrsine L. \ 



348. Order CXX I. SAPO^TEiE. 



Genera 11, Species 44 ; Hot-house Species 31 ; Green-house Species 6 ; Hardy Ligneous Species 7 ; 

 Hardy Herbaceous Species 0. J 25 feet; <£ 0 feet ; ^ 0 feet. 

 These are also shrubs and trees, which are mostly evergreen, and natives of the warmer regions of the world. 

 Some of the Bumelias are found in the southern states of N. America, but none of the order exists in Europe. 

 They are chiefly valuable for their fruit, which, in many cases, contributes richly to the dessert. Mimusops 

 Elengi, Imbricaria malabarica, and Argdnia Sideroxylon are all of this description ; the star apples of the West 

 Indies, the produce of several species of Chrysophyllum, and particularly of C. Ca'inito, are esteemed delicious ; 

 and the Medlars, Lucumas, and Sapotillas of equinoctial America, all the fruit of different kinds of ^^chras, 

 are among the most valuable productions of the western world. The seeds of all the order are oily; those of 

 A^chras Sapbta are accounted diuretic and aperient. Their oil is not fluid, but so concrete as to have the 

 appearance and consistence of butter, whence the name of butter-tree has been applied to different species 

 both in Africa and India. The most famous of this description is the Indian mava, mahva, or madhuca, the 

 Bassia butyracea of botanists ; the seeds of which are so oleaginous, that a single tree has been known to 

 produce three quintals of oil ; the dried flowers of the same tree are mixed by some Indians with their food, 

 and a kind of spirit is distilled from them by others. The juice of all the sapotas is milky, but not acrid and 

 poisonous like that of most other lactescent orders, but, on the contrary, yielding a wholesome beverage or 

 food. According to Brown, the bark of some of the Achrases and Lucumas is so astringent and febrifugal as 

 tc be substituted for quinquina. Cuttings and seeds. 



1351 Inocarpus Forst. 

 555 i?ume!ia Swz. 

 569 Sersalssia R. Br. 

 558 Sideroxylon L. 



559 Argania R. & S. 



556 Chrysophyllum L. 



557 Nycterisition R. $ P. 

 561 ^Tchras L. 



562 Luchma J. 

 1156 Mimusops L. 

 1424 Bassia L. 



349. Order CXXII. EBENA^CEjE. 

 Genera 4, Species 38 ; Hot-house Species 12 ; Greeruhouse Species 22 ; Hardy Ligneous Species 4 ; 

 Hardy Herbaceous Species 0. J 6 feet ; £20 feet ; & 0 feet. 

 Some of these are hardy trees or shrubs, with deciduous leaves and white flowers, natives of woods, moun- 

 tains, and banks of streams in North America, Europe, and New Holland ; others are tropical evergreens. 

 Of the latter, many of the Diospyruses produce eatable fruit; as, for example, the Mabolo of the Philippine 

 Islands, which is as big as a peach, and the Kaki of Japan, which resembles an apricot. All these fruits are 

 remarkable for their extreme austerity before maturity, and the necessity of letting them decay, like our 

 medlars, before they are fit for table. These are also distinguished for the excessive hardness of their wood, 

 and for the black color it sometimes acquires when old, as the Ebony. The bark of X)iospyros virginiana is 

 used in North America in intermittent fevers. Cuttings and layers. 



2791 Maba Forst. I 2889 ZHospyros L. 4 0 



2890 Cargillia R. Br. J 1373 Royena L. 



350. Order CXXIII. BREXIE^E. 



Genus 1, Species 3 ; Hot-house Species 3 ; Green-house Species 0 ; Hardy Ligneous Species 0 , 

 Hardy Herbaceous Species 0. JO feet ; )£ 0 feet ; ^ 0 feet 



A very obscure order, its place in the Natural System is extremely doubtful. Fine trees with the habit of 

 Theophrasta, and with axillary bunches of white flowers. Cuttings. 



523 Brexia Nor. 



351. Order CXXIV. OLE v IN^E. 

 Genera 11, Species 124 ; Hot-house Species 11 ; Green-house Species 23 ; Hardy Ligneous Species 90; 

 Hardy Herbaceous Species 0. J 137| ft. ; 0 feet ; 0 feet. 

 The olives are known by their monopetalous corolla, with a valvular aestivation, two stamens alternate with 

 the segments, a bilocular ovarium with no discus at the base, and pendulous collateral ovula. They were 

 formerly combined with the jasmines. They have all simple opposite leaves; their flowers either white 

 yellow, or purple, and frequently fragrant The Phillyreas are among our finest evergreens, and the Lilac or 

 Syringa perhaps at the head of hardy deciduous bushes. The ash is an anomalous genus which hardly belongs 

 to the order. The seed of the olive contains so large a proportion of fixed oil, that it has long been one of 

 the most important objects of cultivation in the south of Europe. The bark and leaves of many Oleinae are 

 bitter and astringent; these properties are particularly apparent in the ash, which has often been employed 

 successfully as a febrifuge. From the exudation of many species of that genus, the mild purgative called manna 

 is formed ; it is most commonly found upon the O'rnus europae^a. M. Decandolle remarks, that in pi oof of the 

 natural affinity of the plants here combined, and of the propriety of separating the jasmines from them, it has 

 been found that all the olives, as now restricted, will bud or graft upon one another, but not on the jasmines. 

 Thus the lilac will graft on the ash, the Chionanthus, and the Fontanesm and even upon Phillyrea latifblia ; 

 and the olive will take upon the Phillyrea, and even on the ash Cuttings, layers, and by grafts or buds. 



