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The Filaments are numerous, filiform, fliorter than the corolla, 
joined in a cylinder below, and to the petals at the bafe. 
The Anther $ are roundiih. and incumbent. 
The Germen roundifh and hairy. The Style filiform,, the length 
of the Stamina. The Stigma five cleft. 
The Seed-vejfel a juicelefs pome , live lobed, and five cell’d. 
The Seeds are folitary, ovate and compreffed. 
The Species but one y viz. 
Stewartia Malacodendron. Virginian Stewartia • 
This grows naturally in Virginia ; rifing with 
flrong ftems to the height of ten or twelve feet, and 
covered with a brown bark. The leaves are oval 
and fomewhat fpear-fhaped, moft flightly ferrated 
and villofe underneath. The flowers are large and 
white, produced flngly, and fitting clofe upon the 
fmall branches. The feed-veflels are -dry, fomewhat 
conical, ligneous capfules, having five fharp angles, 
and five cells, each containing one oblong fmooth 
feed. This makes a beautiful appearance when well 
filled with its large white flowers. 
S T Y R A X. 
The STORAX-TREE. 
Clafs ii. Order i. Dodecandria Monogynia. 
T HE Empalement is of one leaf, cylindrical, ereft, iliort and 
five-toothed. 
The Corolla is of one petal, funnel-form. The tube is ihort, 
cylindrical, and the length of the calyx. The border five- 
parted, large and fpreading: the divifions lance-ihaped and 
obtufe. 
The Filaments are ere£t, placed in a circle, more than twelve, 
fcarce joined at the bafe, awl-fhaped and infer ted in the co- 
rolla. The Anthem are oblong and ftraight. 
The 
