Order II. BIXÍNEÆ.
A rather small order of mostly tropical trees or shrubs, with alternate, simple leaves.
Genus 4. IDÈSIA.
I. polycárpa.
Large trees with terminal and axillary panicles of very small flowers and berries.
Idèsia polycárpa, Hook. Leaves large, heart-shaped, serrate, palmately veined with 5 ribs; leafstalk very long, red, with two glands near the base; twigs also glandular; berries very small (¼ inch), with many seeds. A large tree recently introduced from Japan, which may prove hardy from Pennsylvania south, but is killed by the climate of Massachusetts.
Order III. ANONÀCEÆ.
(Custard-apple Family.)
An order of tropical trees and shrubs except the following genus: