38 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
I. Staminate and pistillate flowers petaliferous. 
C. AvapAmensis E. A. Smith, in Chapman, Suppl. FI. 
South. U. S. 648. 1883; Mohr, Garden and Forest 
2: 592. f. 150. Dec. 1889; Chapman, Fl. South. U.S. 
429, 1897. [3d ed. ] 
Shrub, 2 to 3 m. tall, the stem 3 to 6 cm. in diameter 
when grown, spreading, much branched; bark grayish 
white; leaves persistent till succeeding spring or autumn, 
subtended by small, exceedingly deciduous stipules (Mohr, 
l. c.), thin but firm, oblong, 5 to 8 cm. long, 3 to 5 cm. 
broad, rounded and usually glandless at the slightly oblique 
base, entire or somewhat undulate, strongly channeled, green 
and glabrate above, below densely set with overlapping ar- 
genteous scales as are also the branches and inflorescence ; 
racemes bi- or unisexual, 3 to 5 cm. long, few to many 
flowered; staminate flowers 10 to 20 with slightly broader 
and more rounded, ciliate petals and sepals than the pistil- 
late flowers; stamens 10 to 25; filaments glabrous above; 
receptacle densely stellate tomentose ; pistillate flowers 4 to 
7, on pedicels 4 to 8 mm. long at maturity of fruit; calyx 
5-parted, the sepals acute, 3 to 4 mm. long, equalling or 
slightly exceeding the thin narrow, ciliate petals which are 
scaly on their outer face; glands 5, oblong; ovary bearing 
3 flattish, slightly emarginate styles, about 4 mm. long; 
capsule trigastric, scaly, 6 to 8 mm. long, depressed at apex; 
seeds oval, 5 to 7 mm. long, unequally biconvex, brown or 
variegated. — Forming dense thickets and quite local, 
according to Dr. Mohr. ‘‘ There are only a few of these 
thickets of the Alabama Croton, called by the inhabitants 
of the region ‘ Privet brakes’ known, and these all 
found close together, and it is possible that it does not 
extend beyond a few miles square.’’ — Mohr, 1. c.— 
Plate 4. 
Specimens examined collected by Mohr, Limestone hills, Little Cahawba 
River, Bibb Co., June, 1884; Celiohe, 1883; A. W. Wright, a leaf, 1886; 
E. A. Smith, Cult. at Chattanooga. 
