CONOCARPUS. + 
(Gartner.) 
Natural Order , Combretace^e. Linnsean Classification , 
Pentandria, Monogynia. 
The flowers densely aggregated in globular or oblong spikes like 
aments. — Tube of the calyx about the length of the ovary, 
persistent; the border 5-cleft. Petals none. Stamens 5 to 
10, exserted; the anthers heart-shaped. Ovary compressed, 
containing 2 ovules. The fruits coriaceous, corky and scale- 
like, closely imbricated, and indehiscent. Cotyledones spirally 
convolute. 
Small maritime trees or shrubs, with alternate, entire, some- 
what coriaceous leaves. Heads of flowers pedunculated, axillary 
or terminal, solitary or in panicles. 
BUTTON-TREE. 
CONOCARPUS erecta ,foliis oblongis utrinque acuminatis 
ssepius basi biglandulosis, capitulis paniculatis . — Dec and. 
Prod., vol. 2 . p. 16. Jacq. Amer., p. 78. t. 52. Catesby’s 
Carolina, tab. 33. 
ct. arborea . Decand. 1. c. 
Conocarpus erecta , fruits retrorsely imbricated in a subglobose 
head, somewhat boat-shaped, scarcely winged; tube of the 
calyx not produced beyond the ovary; leaves oval-lanceolate, 
mostly acute or acuminate at each end, usually with 2 glands 
at the base; heads panicled. — Torrey and Gray, Flor. N. 
Arner., vol. 1. p. 485. 
t From ko>vo; } a 
cone of an alder. 
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cone, and h^ttos, a fruit, its fruit resembling the 
