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This is one of the largest trees of the American forests. In the low 
country of Carolina and Georgia, it is somewhat rare, and seldom ex- 
ceeds 3 feet in diameter, but in the fertile soils of the western country In 
Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama, it is sometimes found 7 to 9 j and 
120 to 140 feet in height. The wood of this tree though soft is durable. 
The leaves are alternate, 3 lobed, with the middle lobe truncate, and varying 
with the angles of the lobe obtuse, acute, and accumulate, glabrous, 
on petioles 2 to 3 inches long. Flowers solitary, terminal. Leaves of the 
calyx concave. Petals obovate, lanceolate, of a dull yellow colour tinged 
with red. Stamens numerous, disposed in a simple series shorter than the? 
petals. Germs numerous on a conical receptacle. 
Grows in most fertile soils. 
Flowers May— "June. 
ASIMINA. 
Calyx 3-phyllus. 
Petala 6, interiora 
minora. Stigmata ses- 
silia obtusa. Baccce 
plures ant abortione 
subsolitariae. Semina 
plurima, unica? serie 
disposita. 
1. Parviflora. 
A. foliis cuneato- 
obovatis, mucronatis, 
subtus ramuiisque ru- 
fo-pubescentibus ; pe- 
talis exterioribus ca- 
lyce vix duplo longi- 
oribus. 
Adanson. 
Calyx 3»leaved, 
Petals 6, the interior 
small. Stigmas ses- 
sde, obtuse. Berries? 
many, or by abortion 
solitary. Seeds nume- 
rous, arranged in a 
, single] series. 
Leaves cuneate- 
ob ovate, mucronate, 
underneath and with 
the branches covered 
with a rufous pubes- 
cence ; exterior petals 
scarcely twice as long 
as the calyx. 
Decandolle 1. p. 478. Porcelia parviflora, Pursh, 2. p. 383. 
Orchidocarpum parviflorum. Mich. Amer. 1. p. 329. 
A small shrub rarely exceeding 2 feet in height, with a few branches 
near the summit. The young branches clothed with a velvet like, ferru- 
ginous pubescence. Leaves alternate, obovate, abruptly acute and 
slightly acuminate, a little hairy on the upper surface, pubescent under- 
neath, on very short petioles. Flowers solitary, nearly sessile. Caly$ 
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