SMILACACEAE 309 
WAKE-ROBIN. BASHFUL WAKE-ROBIN. )—Woods, P id 
adj. provinces, Ga. to Ala. and N. C. 
obtuse or abruptly pointed, recurved: berry 1-1.5 em. thick. [T. s 
Nutt. ]— (Rosy 
Famity 10. ROXBURGHIACEAE — RoxsunGHiA FAMILY 
erennial herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate: blades with palmately 
parallel veins. Flowers perfect, in axillary racemes. Calyx of 2 sepals. 
Corolla of 2 petals. Androecium of 4 stamens. Gynoecium of 2 united 
earpels. Ovary l-eelled. Stigma pom Fruit eapsular.—Three genera 
and 8 species, mostly natives of Asi 
1. CROOMIA Torr. Caulescont herbs with horizontal rootstocks. Leaves 
approximate near the top of the stem. lowers nodding. Sepals and petals 
partially united. a. 2-valved.— 
Two species, the following and one in 
apan. 
m C. pauciflora (Nutt.) T Ste 
dm. tall simple: Tes blades elip- 
ec Or elliptic. ovate, 5-15 . long, e 
date at the base, pe WE ‘sepals is 
petals Bea tinged with purple, es- 
pecially at the base, 3-5 mm. long: fila- 
ments puple; eaters yellow: capsule 
ovoid, 3-6 mm. long.—(CroomiA.)—Rich 
woods, mostly on river-bluffs, astal 
Plain and adj. provinces, N Fla. to Ala. 
and Ga.—Spr 
FaAwiLY 11. SMILACACEAE —Swinax FAMILY 
Perennial armed or unarmed vines or low herbs. Leaves a'ternate: 
blades ribbed, netted-veined, commonly persistent: petiole usually bearing a 
illary unc] f 
that of the p Calyx of 3 sepals. Corolla of 3 petals. An- 
droecium of 6 stamens. Anthers erect. Gynoecium 3-carpellary. Stigma 
3, sessile, sometimes elongate. Fruit a berry with 3 bands of strengthen- 
ing tissue in the pulp connecting the base and apex.—Four genera an 
200 species in tropical and temperate regions. 
Stem annual, herbaceous, unarmed : ovules 2 in each carpel. 1. NEMEXIA. 
Stem perennial, woody, usually prickly : ovule solitary in each carpel. 2. SMILAX. 
1. NEMEXIA Raf. Stems erect or climbing, herbaceous, unarmed, an- 
nual. Leaf-blades membranous, broad, often ribbed. owers often carrion- 
scented. Perianth pale-green, or aee, the petals usually narrower 
than the sepals. Berries black or eoe 10 species, natives of 
North Ameriea.—Spr.—CARRION FLOWERS. EAD-MAN’S BRYONYS.—The more 
common species are well known for m carrion-scented flowers 
Anthers shorter than the filaments: leaf-blades ovate, often cor- 
date, not hastate-lobed. I. HERBACEAE. 
Anthers about as long as the filaments: leaf-blades lanceolate or 
ovate-lanceolate, more or less hastate-lobed. II. TAMNIFOLIAE. 
