Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) 2nd ed.Sargent, Charles Sprague
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Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) 2nd ed.
Sargent, Charles Sprague
Trees -- North America
corolla of 4 or 5 petals; fruit a berry (Sapindus and
Exothea), a drupe (Hypelate), or a 3-valved capsule
(Ungnadia); leaves alternate, compound, without stipules,
persistent, or deciduous (Ungnadia).
XXXVIII. Rhamnaceæ (p. 718). Flowers usually perfect; calyx 4 or
5-lobed; petals 4 or 5 (_0 in Reynosia, Condalia, and
Krugiodendron_); fruit drupaceous; leaves simple, alternate
(_mostly opposite in Reynosia and Krugiodendron_), with
stipules, persistent (_deciduous in some species of Rhamnus_).
XXXIX. Tiliaceæ (p. 732). Flowers perfect; sepals and petals 5; fruit
a nut-like berry; leaves simple, alternate, mostly oblique at
base, with stipules, deciduous.
XL. Sterculiaceæ (p. 749). Flowers perfect; calyx 5-lobed; petals 0;
fruit a 4 or 5-valved dehiscent capsule; leaves simple,
alternate, with stipules, persistent.
XLI. Theaceæ (p. 750). Flowers perfect; sepals and petals 5; fruit a
5-celled woody dehiscent capsule, loculicidally dehiscent;
leaves simple, alternate, without stipules, persistent or
deciduous.
XLII. Canellaceæ (p. 753). Flowers perfect; sepals 3; petals 5;
filaments united into a tube; fruit a berry; leaves simple,
alternate, without stipules, persistent.
XLIII. Kœberliniaceæ (p. 754). Flowers perfect; sepals and petals 4,
minute; leaves bract-like, alternate, without stipules,
caducous.
XLIV. Caricaceæ (p. 755). Flowers unisexual or perfect; calyx 5-lobed;
petals 5; fruit baccate; leaves palmately lobed or digitate,
alternate, without stipules, persistent.
B. Ovary inferior (_partly inferior in Rhizophora_).
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