. The families of flowering plants. Plants; Phanerogams. 110 FAMILIES OF FLOWEEING PLANTS. shrub possessing more or less aromatic properties; they have alternate entire leaves and rather large solitary flowers, with 3 sepals and about 6 petals, thus presenting an anthotaxy or floral arrangement somewhat unusual among exogenous plants. The stamens and carpels are variable, the lat- ter usually fleshy in fruit. The common papaw, Asimina triloba, is familiar to residents of the southern States and of the Ohio and Mississ- ippi valley regions. The lurid purple flowers of this tree, appearing with
. The families of flowering plants. Plants; Phanerogams. 110 FAMILIES OF FLOWEEING PLANTS. shrub possessing more or less aromatic properties; they have alternate entire leaves and rather large solitary flowers, with 3 sepals and about 6 petals, thus presenting an anthotaxy or floral arrangement somewhat unusual among exogenous plants. The stamens and carpels are variable, the lat- ter usually fleshy in fruit. The common papaw, Asimina triloba, is familiar to residents of the southern States and of the Ohio and Mississ- ippi valley regions. The lurid purple flowers of this tree, appearing with the leaves in early spring, are quite ornamen- tal, while the oblong yellowish fruits have a rich flavor when ripe, superior in the writer's opinion to that of the banana. There are other species of Asimina in the far South. None of them attain the dig- nity of arborescence, but some have very large and handsome flowers (see Fig. 92.) {MyHs2l^I^ya^)^2l-h^is'^^rai ^^^ *^® ^^^t Indies the related genus size. Original. Anontt yields several much-prized tropical fruits. The soursop is the product of A. muricata; it has a white pulp and a pleasant subacid flavor, the outer rind being greenish and cov- ered with prickles. The sweetsop is the fruit of A. squamosa; it is sweeter but also more tasteless. Uvaria, which is common through- out the Indo-Malayan region, con- sists wholly of climbing shrubs; the fruit is occasionally edible, but the genus is chiefly valuable on ac- count of the variety of medicinal substances extracted from roots, bark, flowers and seeds in the dif- ferent species. The South Amer- ican genus Xyhpia is similarly use- ful. Family Myristicaceae. Nutmeg Family. Consists of the single «â.,-,â¢*â âââââ 1,^ . ,. -11. T ® Fig. 94. ,Cahfoniia nutmeg {Umbellularia genus Mynstica, including about Coft/orajca)shawing fruit and detached flower 80 species, natives of the tropics of '' "'^""'*' *^ '«""â¢i"ged one-h
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