The North American sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova ScotiaConsidered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerceTo which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees .. . Cahjx 5-parted, permanent, leaflets subovate, concave, erect. Corollamouopetalous, with the tube short and campaniilate; the bordersomewhat two-lipped; the upper lip truncate, flat, and emarginate ;the lower trifid, the segments ovate, equal, and flat. Stamens four,with subulate filaments inclined to the upp
The North American sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova ScotiaConsidered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerceTo which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees .. . Cahjx 5-parted, permanent, leaflets subovate, concave, erect. Corollamouopetalous, with the tube short and campaniilate; the bordersomewhat two-lipped; the upper lip truncate, flat, and emarginate ;the lower trifid, the segments ovate, equal, and flat. Stamens four,with subulate filaments inclined to the upper lip, the anterior pairshorter; anthers roundish, 2-celled. Stigma bifld, acute, the lowestdivision reflected. Pericarp a coriaceous, somewhat rhomboidal,compressed capsule of one cell, with two valves. Seed one, large,without albumen, taking the form of the capsule, the cotyledons infour broad, fleshy folds, germinating while on the tree; radicleinferior, bearded. Maritime tropical or subtropical trees with opposite entire leaves:flowers in small terminal and axillary panicles, with the calyx sub-tended by three bractes. A genus of three species, chiefly indigenousto ISTew Zealand, Tropical India, and America. * So named after the famous Orieutal pliysieiau Avicenua. 142 PI S<iii JeiUfd ./tjceiniKi Aviveiiniii Iuiuhliosji. / icfinf < \ rl If IIJI ///•? SOFT-LEATED AVICENNIA. AviCENNiA TOMEXTOSA, [Jacquiu.) FoUis oblongis obtiM-s sulilus (allien- iosis.—WiLLD., Sp. pi., vol. V. p. 395. Jacq., Am., t. 112. Talis. Beauv., Flor., t. 47. Browne, Prod., p. foliis inkgris ohlongis oppositis, pctioUs crassis brevisslmis suba/n- plcxantlbus^ floribus raccmosis.—Buowxe, Jamaica, p. —Thouafs Gen. Madagasc, Xo. lauro-cerasi foliis, flore albo tdrapdalo.—Sloaxe, Jam., p. 15G; Hist., vol. ii. p. QQ. Raj., Dendr., p. —Bauhin, Pinax., p. 511. Oepata., Hhccd, Malab., vol. iv. p. 95, t. 45. Sceura, Forsk. iEgypt., p. 3
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