MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 
585 
A tree which sometimes on the sea-islands obtains a height of sixty to 
seventy feet, with a diameter of two to four feet; branches erect and expand- 
ing; bark united but corrugate, rimose. Leaves attenuate, ovate, acuminate, 
oblique at base, when old nearly glabrous; the young somewhat hairy, sca- 
brous and entire. Petioles three to five lines long, hairy. Flowers axilla- 
ry, the lower sterile frequently by threes; the upper fertile solitary. Pedun- 
cles four to ten lines long. Stipules two, pubescent, as long as the pedun- 
cles. Of the sterile floret, calyx five to six parted; filaments five to six, as 
long as the calyx, united at base. Anthers greenish. Of the fertile floret, 
germ superior; style or rather stigmas two, expanding curved. Fruity a 
globular dry drupe, of a purple colour and saccharine taste. 
Around Beaufort formerly this tree was very common, and several of them 
in the town had obtained the size I have mentioned. The wood, however, 
appears not to be strong; the branches are easily broken from the stem by 
high winds, and in the frequent gales to which the sea-coast of Carolina and 
Georgia has been exposed during the last twenty or twenty-five years, the 
finest of these trees have literally been torn to pieces. Along the margin of 
the sea-islands this tree, perhaps, occurs more frequently than in any other 
situation. 
Flowers March. 
ZIZANIA, Gen. Pl. 1433. 
Masculi. Calyx 0. 
Corolla , gluma 2-val- 
vis, mutica, foemineis 
mixta. 
Foeminei. Calyx 0. 
Corolla gluma 2-valvis, 
aristata. Stylus 2-par- 
titus. Semen 1, corol- 
la plicata veslitum. 
1. Aquatica. 
Z. panicula pyrami- 
data, inferne divarica- 
ta mascula, superne 
spicata foeminea; pedi- 
cellis florum clavatis; 
aristis longis; semine 
elongato. 
VOL. II. E 
Sterile florets. Ca- 
lyx 0. Corolla , glume 
2-valved, unawned, 
mingled with the fertile 
florets. 
Fertile florets. Ca- 
lyx 0. Corolla glume 
2-valved, awned. Style 
2-parted. Seed clothed 
with the plaited corolla. 
Panicle pyramidal, 
divaricate and sterile 
at base, spiked and fer- 
tile towards the sum- 
mit; pedicells of the 
flower clavate; awns 
long; seed long. 
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