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STYPHONIA.* 
(Nutt.) 
Natural Order , Anacardiace^e. Linncean Classification , 
Pentandria Trigynia. 
Sepals (or calyx leaves) 7 to 9, coloured, concave, with scarious margins, 
imbricated in several series, persistent, passing into the bracteoles. 
Petals 5, oblong, subunguiculate, similar with the sepals, pubescent at 
base, inserted under the margin of the disk. Stamens 5 to 7. Style 
short; stigma minute, 3-lobed. Fruit a dry compressed drupe; the 
pulp scanty, very acid and astringent. Nut compressed, bony, 1 -celled. 
Seed solitary, suspended from a funiculus arising from the base of the 
cell. 
These are low and much branched, submaritime evergreen trees of 
Upper California. Leaves simple, alternate, thick and coriaceous. Flowers 
polygamous, sessile, in terminal contracted panicles. 
ENTIRE LEAVED STYPHONIA. 
STYPHONIA integrifolia, foliis ovalibus integris utrinque obtusis 
brevi-petiolatis. 
Styphonia integrifolia , leaves oval, very obtuse at either end, entire, on 
short petioles. Nutt, in Tore, and Gray Flora. N. Amer. 1, p. 220. 
This is an unsightly tree, with a stem about the thick- 
ness of a man’s arm, branching in a wide and straggling 
manner, forming impervious thickets, along the margins of 
* From tTv<pa, to be astringent . In allusion to its qualities. 
