POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 
3 j_i >UB - E ' S(: : r - N ^- 
Leaves obliquely 
cordate and truncate, 
acuminate, denticulate 
and serrate, pube- 
scent underneath; cy- 
mes with crowded 
flowers; style as long 
as the petals ; nut glo- 
bose. 
Sp. pi. 2. p. 1 162. Pursh, 2. p. 363. 
Mich. Arb. 3. p. 317* 
A Tree 20-50 feet high, with the old branches glabrous, the young ones very 
pubescent. Leaves alternate, cordate, obliquely truncated, so as sometimes 
to efface the sinus at base, slightly acuminate, serrate, glabrous on the up- 
per surface, underneath slightly scabrous and very pubescent when young, 
the down wearing off by age. Petiole and peduncles pubescent. Cy- 
mes axillary. — Bractea oblong oval, as long as the cymes, entire, veined, 
scabrous, of a yellowish green colour. Calyx deeply divided, deci- 
duous ; leaflets ovate, lanceolate, acute, white, somewhat woolly. Petals 
nearly lanceolate, obtuse, white, longer than the calyx. Nectary composed 
of 5 small leaves, obovate,crenate, shorter than the calyx, enveloped by the 
petals, and attached with them to the base of the germ. Filaments nume- 
rous (nearly 50,) united in five clusters, splitting finally to the base ; shorter 
than the corolla, white, 2 cleft at the summit ; anthers incumbent, 2 lobed, 
with the lobes distinct. Gem superior, ovate, sulcate, hairy. Stigma 
obtuse. Capsule globose, coriaceous, generally marked with sutures 
where the 5 valves unite, bursting tardily at base, at first 5 celled, but. 
rarely maturing more than one seed. Seed round, smooth. 
Grows in fertile soils along the sea coast of Carolina and Georgia. 
Flowers May, June, 
1 . loins obliquis, 
cordatis truncatisque, 
acuminatis, denticula- 
to-serratis, subtus pu- 
bescentibus ; cymis 
confertifloris ; stylo 
petalis subaequali ; mi- 
ce globosa. 
HELIANTHEMUM. Tourn. 
Calycis laciniae 5, 
saepius inaequales, 2 
extimis minoribus. 
Petala5. Capsula 1- 
locularis, 3-valvis ; 
medio septiferis. 
Segments of the ca- 
lyx 5, often unequal, 
the 2 exterior small. 
Petals 5. Cap- 
sule 1-celled, 3-val- 
ved; valves bearing 
a partition in the mid- 
dle. 
