Tas. 8413. 
. ELLIOTTIA racemosa. 
a 
Southern United States. 
EricacnaArn. Tribe RHopDOREAE. 
ELLIOTTIA, Muhl. ex Ell. Sketch Bot. S. Car. & Georg. vol, i. p. 448; Benth. et 
Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 598, partim; Drude in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. 
Pflanzenf. vol. iv. pars 1, p. 32. 
Elliottia racemosa, Muhl. Cat. Pl. Am. Sept. 1813 (nomen) et ex Eli. Sketch 
Bot. S. Car, & Georg. 1817, vol. i. p. 448 et in Nutt. Gen, N. Am. add, 1821; 
Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. pars 1, p. 44; Sargent in Gard. & Forest, 
vol. vif. p. 207, t. 87 e¢ in Sylva N. Am. vol. xiv. p. 31, t. 712; Kew Bull. 
1906, p. 226, et 1911, p. 322; species unica. 
Arbor ad 6 m. alta vel saepius fruticosa, ramis virgatis novellis gracilibus 
pubescentibus castaneis, deinde aurautiaco-fuscis demum fusco-cinereis 
glabris. Folia alterna, oblonga vel elliptico-oblonga, utrinque acuta, 
7-10 cm. longa, 2°5-3°75 cm. lata, membranacea, supra saturate viridia, 
glabra, infra pallida, laxe pilosa; petioli basi dilatati, pubescentes, 8-10 
mm. longi. JInflorescentiae terminales, racemosae vel subpaniculatae, 
15-25 cm. longae, laxae; bracteae bracteolaeque lanceolatae vel subulatae, 
scariosae, mox deciduae; pedicelli 10-15 mm. longi, graciles. Calyx 
patellari-cupularis, diametro 3-4 mm., rubescens, 4-lobus, lobis perlatis 
cuspidatis ciliolatis, praeter cilia glaber. /etula 4, ima basi leviter 
cohaerentia, anguste spathulato-oblonga, 10-12 mm. longa, 3 mm. lata, 
alba. Stamina 8; filamenta 5 mm. longa, linearia; antherae basi bilobae, 
oblongo-lanceolatae, 2°5 mm. longae. Ovarium disco crasso 4-lobo insidens, 
depressum, 4-loculare ; stylus filiformis, superne incurvus incrassatusque, 
80 mm. longus; stigma oblique capitatum. Fructus ignotus.—O. Starr. 
The beautiful shrub or small tree which forms the subject 
of our illustration is confined naturally to a small area in 
northern Georgia which extends across the Savannah River 
into South Carolina. Within this limited tract it is rare or 
at least local in woods, especially along rivers. The species 
was first received at Kew in 1894 from the late Mr. P. J. 
Berckmans, of Augusta, Georgia, who sent some pieces 
with a little root attached, accompanied by a note recording 
his having first noted it when botanising with the late 
Professor A. Gray some thirty years previously, Unfor- 
tunately none of the pieces grew, and it was not until 
1902, when two well-rooted plants were again sent by 
Mr. Berckmans, that Elliottia racemosa became established 
in the Kew Collection. One of the plants has been injured 
January, 1912. 
