FLORIDA SATIN-WOOD. 
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are alternate, on common petioles about 2 inches long ; 
the leaflets 2 or 3, rarely 4 pair, are elliptic or subovate, 
opposite, obtuse, narrowed at the base, and slightly oblique 
with shallow, small crenatures on the margin, at length 
quite smooth, and very distinctly marked (when held 
against the light,) with pellucid punctures or translucid 
aromatic glands ; the petioles, young buds, and the stalks 
of the panicles, as well as the midrib of the young leaves, 
are thinly clad with close pressed stellated hairs. The 
panicles of the male flowers are large, and contain very 
many crowded, small, yellowish-white flowers. The calyx 
is very small and 5-toothed; the petals much larger, 
oblong-ovate, 4 to 5, with the same number of Stamens. 
The panicle of female flowers is smaller than in the other 
sex, the calyx and corolla similar. The germs are mostly 
2, sometimes 3, each terminated with a small style and 
a large unequal-sided capitate stigma. The capsules are 
brownish-yellow and stipitate, covered with turgid glands, 
and each containing one shining black seed. This species 
appears to be allied to Z. acuminatum, but the leaves are 
not acuminate, and the flowers have 4 and mostly 5 sta- 
mens. From the rude figure of Sloane t. 168, f. 4, we 
should almost be inclined to think it intended for our plant, 
but the leaves are entire and often emarginate, and hence 
the name of Z. emarginatum, given by Swartz. 
Plate LXXXV. 
A branch of the natural size. a. The male flower enlarged, b. The 
female do. c. The ripe capsule. 
