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insects to accomplish this crossing at times, but E and duae have 
destroyed so many, that propagation by seeds seems to have ceased. 
3. LEIOPHYLLUM Pers. Evergreen shrubs with erect, spreading, or pros- 
trate branches. Leaves alternate or opposite, box-like: blades coriaceous, entire, 
often shining. Flowers in terminal umbel-like clusters. Calyx-lobes 5, longer 
ube. 
than the t etals 5, white or pink, spreading.  Stamens 10: anthers 
opening lengthwise. Style cele: Capsule ovoid. [Dendrium Desv.]— 
Only the following species.—Spr.-sum.—SAND-MYRTLES. 
Style slender, fully twice as long as the ovary in anthesis: disk minute: petals 
elliptic to ovate-elliptic: pedicels ape l. L. buzifolium, 
Style stout, less than twice as long as the : disk prominent: 
etals ovate to rhombic-ovate: pedicel es 
Leaves mostly 2 an euer -valves sharp-tuberculate: de- 
od or diffuse s 2. L. Lyoni. 
Leaves alternate: capsule-valves muricate or scabrous: erect 
Shrub. 3. L. Hugeri. 
1. L. buxifolium (Berg.) Ell. A much-branched shrub resembling a dwarf- 
box P uo 8 A tall or ee leaf-blades elliptie or n cu broadened upward, 
mostly 3-8 long, shining above, paler 
and dull bene calyx- lobes dor a -lanceo- 
late or lanceolate, about 1 mm. long: petals 
elliptic to D nous 2- 2.5 mm. lon ng: 
capsule ovoid, about 3 mm. long, more t 
twice as long as the calyx. [D. buxi a 
NS m ud pine-barrens, Coastal Plain, 
N. N. J.; recorded from as far south 
as Fia 
Swee A TIow, diffuse or 
depressed shrub 2 A tall or less, bo usu- 
ally numerous branches often prost and 
matted: leaf-blades oval or 1d ‘lliptic, 
m. long: petals ovate to oval, about 2. 5m long: capsule broadly ovoid t 
globose-ovoid, 2.5-3 mm. long. [D. Side cum (Loud.) Small]—Rocky sum- 
i Blue Ridge, N. C. and Tenn. 
L. Hugeri (Small) K. Sch. A much-branched p 9 dm. tall or less: leaf- 
blades elliptie or individually elliptic-ovate, 9—15 e . lo ong: calyx-lobes lanceo- 
late, 2 mm. lo ong o metimes sh i din bon. ovate t RE ovate, 
3. 5-4 m long: capsule ov oid, 3.5-4 mm. long. [D. Hugeri Small]—Roe ky sum- 
“mits, Blue Ridge and inner “Pizdmo nt, S, Ge nd N. C. 
4. AZALEA L. Erect deciduous-leaved shrubs, sometimes tardily decidu- 
ous at the extreme south. Leaves alternate: blades sometimes bristle-toothed. 
Calyx deciduous: lobes 5, conspicuously ciliate. Corolla variously colored, fun- 
nelform: tube elongate: limb 2-lipped. Stamens 5 or rarely 10, d 
exserted: anthers with terminal pores. Style declined. Capsule elongate, 
opening at the apex.—About 40 species, American and Asiatic pice ONEY- 
LES. AZALEAS.—Natural hybrids are to be ncn nea of the 
species are much used in horticulture. 
Flower-clusters appearing before the leaves or as the leaves unfold. 
I. NUDIFLORAE. 
Flower-clusters appearing after the leaves. 
Twigs strigose: style usually pubescent. II. VISCOSAE. 
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