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Gaudalupe Mountains; found also as a medium-sized tree on the Pecos, Devil’s River, 
and most streams further eastward to San Antonio; occurs sparingly on the Lower 
Rio Grande, the Gulf Coast, and the water courses of southeast Texas.” (Havard.) 
2. FORESTIERA Poir. 
Shrubs, with opposite and often fascicled deciduous leaves, small 
dicecious flowers crowded in catkin-like scaly buds from the axils of 
last year’s leaves, 4 minute sepals, no corolla, 2 to 4 stamens with ob- 
long anthers, ovate 2-celled ovary with 2 pendulous ovules in each cell, 
slender style, somewhat 2-lobed stigma, and small ovoid 1-celled 
1-seeded drupe. 
* Leaves membranaceous and deciduous, not porulose, mostly minutely serrate. 
1. F. acuminata Poir. Glabrous, somewhat spinescent, 2 to 8 m. high: leaves 
oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, slender-petioled, often 
serrulate, 3.5 to 10 cm. long: fertile flowers several in a fascicle, drupe elongated- 
oblong, usually pointed.—Wet and shady river banks, extending from the Gulf States 
to the Valley of the Colorado. 
2. F. Neo-Mexicana Gray. Glabrous, 2 to 3 m. high: leaves spatulate-oblong, 
obtuse or obtusely acuminate, short-petioled, obtusely or obsoletely serrulate, 2.5 
em. long: fertile flowers in sessile fascicles: drupe obtuse, short-oblong or ovoid.— 
Western borders of Texas. 
3. F. pubescens Nutt. Soft-pubescent: leaves obovate or oblong with narrowed 
base, short-petioled, appressed-serrulate, rounded at apex, usually 2.5 em. long: fer- 
tile flowers and oblong drupes pedicellate.—Eastern and southern Texas, 
* * Leaves coriaceous, very small, not porulose. 
4. F, spherocarpa Torr. Low shrub: leaves oblong or oval, obtuse, obscurely 
crenulate, minutely soft-pubescent, 12 mm. long, short-petioled, mainly crowded at 
tip of branchlets: drupe globular, very short-pedicelled.—Southwestern Texas, in 
dry ravines of the Limpia River. 
* * * Leaves coriaceous, porulose-punctate beneath, 
5. F. reticulata Torr. Glabrous throughout: leaves ovate or almost oblong, 
with rounded base and obtuse or acute mucronulate apex, lucid above, conspicuously 
venulose-reticulated, 2.5 cm. long or more, with margins plane and often serrulate: 
drupe short-ovoid.— Western borders of Texas. ‘Only seen in canons near the mouth 
of the Pecos.” (Havard.) 
6. F. angustifolia Torr. Densely branched glabrous shrub: leaves linear or spatu- 
late-linear (12 to 24 mm. long and 2 to 6 mm. wide), sometimes linear-oblong, very 
obtuse, veinless or nearly so, with narrowly revolute entire margins: drupe ovate, 
acute, very short-pediceled.—Throughout southern Texas. ‘Rather common on 
bluffs and in mountain arroyos, with a black, edible, but not very palatable berry.” 
(Havard.) 
3. CHIONANTHUS. (FRINGE-TREE.) 
Low trees or shrubs, with deciduous and entire petioled leaves, deli- 
cate flowers in loose and drooping graceful panicles from lateral buds, 
4-parted very small persistent calyx, corolla of 4 long and linear petals 
which are barely united at base, 2 (rarely 3 or 4) very short stamens on 
the very base of the corolla, notched stigma, and a fleshy globular 
drupe becoming 1-celled and 1 to 3-seeded. 
