ERICACEAE 1003 
.of an ovoid type, 5-lobed. Filaments unappendaged: 
anthers appendaged. Capsule globular, varying to 
spheroidal or ovoid.—About 6 species, North Ameri- 
can and hase 
1. P. floribunda (Pursh) Benth. Shrub 3-18 dm 
n 
lanceolate, gene less than % as lon d as the bid 
capsule 5-6 long, not depre — (Mov 
FETTER-BUSH. yin d soil, Blue a to o Plateau, Ga. to Tenn. 
and S Va.—Spr.—s 
16. AMPELOTHAMNUS Small Evergreen shrubs or woody vines, the 
branehes nearly terete. Leaves alternate: blades leathery, more or less toothed 
above the middle. Panicles raceme-like, borne solitary in the leaf-axils. Calyx- 
lobes 5, appressed to the corolla, leathery. Corolla white, ovoid, the tube 
slightly, if 2 al angled: lobes very short, nearly 
erect. Filaments flat, broad, sigmoid-curved near the 
top, unappendaged: a appendaged. Capsule 
spheroidal_—One spec 
1. A. phillyreifolius (Hook.) Small. “Shrub with 
ing t by creeping under r bar eaf bado 
elliptic or b or rarely elliptic. ‘oblanceolate. o or obo- 
vate, 2-7 long, serrate near the apex: calyx-lobes 
lanceolate o or narrowly trian Mine eRe t mostly 
as 
long as the corolla: Poe 7—-8.5 mm. long: 
capsule slightly depressed 3—4 mm. long.—Moist pinelands and ponds, Coastal 
Plain, N Fla., to Ala. and Ga —NWint —spr.—Apparently the only climbing vine 
in this family in our pop, 
17. DESMOTHAMNUS Small. Evergreen des with prominently 
angled branches and o foliage. Leaves altern d thick-leathery, 
entire, with intram arginal veins. Flower-clusters ius o the leaves of the 
preceding year. Calyx- o 5 narrow, somewhat pir oppi " Corolla 
white, pink, or ir ovoi conn ureeolate, nodding, 
cosi ed at the orifice. Filaments slender above 
the slightly dilated pound glabrous, each with a pair 
of appendages ne he top: anthers unappendaged 
rounded at the apex, the sutures thickened.—One 
1. cidus (Lam.) Small. Shrub 1.5-2 m. tall: 
me blades leathery, o > oval or obov 
abruptly a 
zate, 2—8 
inate: flower-clusters ' axil- 
lar: s od aoe ince acuminate: corolla white or rose, 7-9 
m. long, fully twice as long as the calyx: capsu ule 3.5—4 mm. long. [Pieris 
nitida B. —(FETTER-BUSH.)—Moist pinelands, DS ponds, bays, 
and serub, Coastal Plain, Fla. to La. and S Va.—Spr.- 
