Leaf-blades oblanceolate to cuneate or narrowly obovate: 
fruit obovoid. 
Leaf-blades obovate, elliptic, or oval: fruit ellipsoid or 
id. 
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. T. longifolia. 
llipsoid-obovo 2. T. Bracei. 
Pu subglobose, 6- T long, the hard part oval: leaf- 
orbicular- ae 'to suborbicular. 3. T. globosa. 
lades 
ois Cop onely pubescent: inflorescence-branches persis- 
tly pubescent. 4. T. floridana. 
1. T. longifolia (Heimerl) Britton. Shrub or small tree, with pale smooth 
bark and brittle branches: na blades oblanceolate to cuneate or narrowly 
obovate, 2.5—5 em. long, thinnish, DRE 
490 TETRAGONIACEAE 
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(BrLoLLv.)—Hammocks, S pen. Fla. and the 
Keys.—(W. I.) 
. Bracei Britton. Shrub or small tree, 
with rather pale bark: leaf-blades obovate, 
elliptic, or oval, 3.5-6 cm. long, thick 
hard 
-9 mm. long.— (BLOLLY. Pe mocks and adj. pinelands, lower eastern 
coast, pu Fla. and the Keys.—(W. I.) 
T. globosa Small. Small tree, with gray, often dark-gray bark: leaf- 
blade a e to suborbieular, mostly 1—2 em. long, thinnish, rounded 
margin t the apex, slender- petiole: calyx greenish- purple: fr ruit sub- 
globose, dr mm. long, dark-red, juicy, depressed at the apex, the edd Spa 
. long.—Hammocks, lower EN coast, pen. Fla. and the Key 
floridana Britton. Low es with gnarled branches: leaf-blades 
4. T. 
spatulate, cuneate, or obovate, 2-3.5 em. long: fruit slightly broadened upward, 
—7 mm. long.—Rocky red Rock Be m la Eo nearly a century ago 
Famity 11. TETRAGONIACEAE — CARPET-WEED FAMILY 
Herbs, firm or suceulent, or partially woody plants. Leaves alternate 
or opposite, sometimes apparently whorled. Flowers perfect, polygamous, 
X of 4 or 5 sepals. Corolla 
or unisexual, regular or nearly so. ly ls. Coroll 
wanting (in our species). Androecium of 4 o ypogynous or perigy 
nous sta , or sometimes fewer, umerous. Gynoecium of 
2-several united carpels. Ovary da aad or pa nfe Fruit a 
psule 
species, mostly natives of the tropi cs. 
Hypanthium minute: ovary essentially superior. Tribe I, MOLLUGINEAE. 
ae Lace er quite oe aes turbinate, or cam- 
nulate: ovary m ss i . 
Ovary partly inlerior. - 
Capsule circumscissile. Tribe II. SESUVIEAE. 
Capsule ig cidal. Tribe III. AIZOEAE. 
Ovary inferi Tribe IV. TETRAGONIEAE. 
I. MOLLUGINEAE 
Radially prostrate wiry-stemmed herb. 1. MOLLUGO. 
