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American continent, both on the western and eastern sides. It 
differs from Styrax in its more fleshy, almost coriaceous, and 
narrower petals, which are always acuminated and valvate in 
aestivation. The stamens are nearly the length of the petals ; and 
the anther-lobes, which are parallel and linear, are attached by 
their entire length upon the filament, which exceeds them in 
breadth and around their apex ; they are separated from one an- 
other hy a narrow interval, and are only in a small degree shorter 
than the filaments, which hence appear extremely abbreviated, and 
which helow the lobes are covered by a tuft of long, stiff, spread- 
ing hairs : the margins of the filaments are very laxly coherent, 
and loosely attached, for a very short interval, to the base of the 
petals. The fruit is ohlong, sub-haccate, half enveloped by the 
free persistent calyx ; the endocarp is easily separated from the 
rest of the thin indehiscent pericarp, and is thin, polished, and 
horny, and easily sectile into three valves, which are marked in 
the manner before described. Its testa is not so thick as in 
Styrax and Cyrta, and its emhryo is longer and more erect. It 
agrees with Cyrta in the form and aestivation of its petals, but 
differs in its much longer anthers and in its indehiscent pericarp. 
Strigilia, Cav. Foveolaria in parte, R. ^ P. Tremanthus, 
Pers. Epigenia, Veil. Styrax in parte, A. DeCand. et ali- 
orum. — Flores hermaphroditi. Calyx tubulosus, obconicus, 
5-carinatus, margine obsolete 5-denticulatus, demum paullo 
accrescens, omnino liber, persistens, et fructum laxe eingens. 
Petala 5, lineari-oblonga, crassiuscula, tomentosa, aestiyatione 
valvata, cum staminibus imo laxe cohaerentia, hinc pseudo- / 
gamopetala, decidua. Stamina 10, uniserialia, cum petalis 
inserta, quorum 5 paullo longiora, petalis subbreviora et 
alternantia, 5 reliqua petalis opposita ; filamenta linearia, com- 
planata, antheris saepissime latiora, stellato-pilosa, imo pilis 
simplicibus longis crebris barbataj antherce 2-lobae, longi- 
tudine fere filamentorum, lobis linearibus, segregatis, parallelis, 
dorso omnino adnatis, tenniter membranaceis, saepissime stel- 
lato-pilosis, rima antica longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Po//en 
sub-3-gonum. Ovarium superum, rarius principio in torum 
paullulo immersum, cito emersum et omnino liberum, stami- 
nibus dimidio brevius, subturbinatum, imo sub-5-gonum, 
saepissime apice depresso-conico 5-sulcato umbraculiformi m- 
crassatum, summo omnino 1-loculare, imo plus minusve bre- 
viter 3-septato, septis in nervis 3 carinatis parietalibus intra 
stylum cavum percurrentibus, ad basin cum placentam cen- 
tralem abbreviatam annexis et hinc locellos 3 incompletos 
mentientibus ; ovula plurima, crebra, 6-10 in quoque locello, 
2-3-8erialia, in tuberculis totidem placentae imo immersa, in- 
