1144 
AVICENNIACEAE 
shorter than the tube: corolla 18-22 mm. long; tube very ad lobes lilae or 
red-purple.—Fields and roadsides, Coastal Plain, N Fla. t 
13. SIPHONANTHUS L. Shrubs or half-shrubs. 
entire. 
curved.  Filam 
the corolla-tube. 
Corolla white or nearly 
c 
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ents "i te to the middle of 
Nat t. of China. 
Leaf-blades simple, 
Flowers in axillary cymes, sometimes aggregated in a panicle. 
loosely spreading. . 
so, slender-funnelfor 5-lo the tu 
Calyx 
Stigmas slender. Drupe/7-7; 
obed.—About 6 species, natives of the Old j 
World tropics. 
. S. indicus L. Plant 1-4 tall, the 
twigs glabrous: leaf- blades RA or 
m. 
elliptic Cage oe to elliptic, 5-16 c 
long, enti labrous, cr tioled : ealy: 
13-1 obes ovat 
1 | i 
drupe 8-10 mm. long.—(TuRK’s- pO ( 
—Waste-places, roadsides, and us Coastal Plain, Fla. to Tex. and S. C. 
Nat. of E. I. and cult.—(W. I., Mez., S. A.)—The black fruits are conspieuous. 
14. VITEX L. 
rarely 1-foliolate. 
Shrubs or trees.  Leaf-blades VG compound or 
Flowers in open terminal es cymes. Calyx shal- 
the base.—Abo 60 AME 
ut widely dis- 
tributed in warm regio 
l. V. Agnus-Castus L. Shrub 1-3 m. tall, 
pale-pubescent: leaf-blades 7- foliolate, the 
mirae I linear d bp bun blades 
2—10 ong: flow e t X 
2-2.5 m ict ES diate: 
Or purplish; limb 5-6 mm. broad: fruits 
3.5—4 lon 
sides, cent -places, , and about gardens, Coastal Plain, Fla. to Tex., and N. C. 
Nat. of Old World, and cult.—(W. I.)—Spr.-fall. 
Famity 11, AVICENNIACEAE — Brack-MANGROVE FAMILY 
hrubs or trees of maritime regions, the branches terete, nodose. 
Leaves opposite, persistent: blades entire. l 
Flowers in axillary and termi- 
nal small, long-peduncled cymes. Calyx of 5 feuis distinct sepals. 
Corolla of 4 partially united petals, campanulate-rotate. Androecium of 
Only the following genus and 3 species, in tropical regions. 
