Plant. nov. in Florida subtropica indigenae, John K. Small descriptae. 265 
come next to Quercus undulata, from which it differs in the blunt lobes or 
teeth of the leaf-blades and the deep cup of the acorn. 
Florida: The type-specimens were collected in the pinelands near 
Ft. Lauderdale, by Prof. P. H. Rolfs, Mr. J. J. Carter and the writer 
in XI, 1903 (no. 1044). 
4. Quercus succulenta Small, |. c., p. 422. 
A shrub, mostly about 1 m tall, with soft spreading branches, the 
twigs gray-black: leaf-blades broadly linear to cuneate, fleshy-leathery, 
2—4,5 cm long, entire or with 3—5 slightly spinescent lobe-like teeth, 
smooth and glabrous above, tomentulose beneath: pistillate flowers in 
elongated peduncled spikes: acorns peduncled; cup saucer-shaped, 3— 4 mm 
high, 5—6 mm broad, the upper scales obtuse; nut oblong-conic, 1—1,3 cm 
long, only the very base included in the cup. 
As in the case of Quercus Holfsi, this plant is a live-oak. It is re- 
markable on account of its fleshy branches and leaves, and the very 
small, shallow and thin cup of the acorn. In these particulars it differs 
from all other members of the group to which it belongs. 
Florida: The type-specimens were collected near Ft. Lauderdale, by 
Mr. J. J. Carter and the writer, in XI, 1903 (no. 1044). 
5. Phytolacca rigida Small, l. c. p. 422. 
An herb 1—3 m tall, or sometimes à tree becoming 6 or 7 m tall, 
the stem and branches mostly greenish purple: leaf-blades lanceolate or 
oblong-lanceolate, 7—34 cm long, deep green, acuminate at the apex, 
narrowed into petiole-like bases: panicles permanently erect: pedicels 
2--5 mm long, stout and during anthesis slightly surpassing the sub- 
tending bracts, not longer than the diameter of the perianth: sepals ovate 
or oblong-ovate, 3 mm long, apiculate, and more or less erose-toothed at 
the apex: filaments about 2 mm long: berries spheroidal, 10 - 12 mm 
broad, dark purple, the juice crimson: seeds 3 mm long. 
A species with the habit of Phytolacca decandra, from which it 
differs in the relatively longer or narrower leaf-blades, the short pedicels 
which are much shorter than the diameter of the berries, and the per- 
manently erect panicles. 
Florida: The type-specimens were collected in hammocks at Miami, 
in V, 1904 (Small & Wilson, no. 1893). Other collections are as follows: 
Ft. Myers (Hitchcock, no. 301). Braidentown (Tracy, no. 7531). Miami 
(Small & Carter, no. 664; Britton, no. 467). St. Augustine (Small & 
Wilson, no. 2010). 
6. Aeschynomene pratensis Small, l. c., p. 423. 
Annual or perhaps perennial, woody below: stem 1—2 m tall, widely 
and irregularly branched: leaves few and scattered, 4—5 cm long; leaflets 
mainly 15—25, the blades narrowly oblong, 5—6 mm long, obtuse, short- 
petioled: flowers few, slender-pedicelled: calyx 5—6 mm long, glabrous, 
the lips nearly equal: corolla mainly yellow; standard with a suborbicular 
blade 10 mm in diameter, and a short claw; wing-petals 8 mm long, with 
