40 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, 
1876; no. 6157, Dry pine barrens, Jacksonville; Canby, 1869; Garber, 
Gainesville, 1876; Palmer, no. 407, east Fla.; Nash, no. 358, Eustis; no. 
1849; Wood, Wakula Spring, 1857; Buckley; Chapman; Webber, no. 126; 
Hitchcock, 1890; Ferguson, Tampa, 1898); Louisiana (Leavenworth, 
Tracy, no. 3504); Texas (Berlandier, nos. 294, 1554, 2552; Drummond, 
no. 333= 275; Lindheimer, no. 178, 1843; Hall, no. 574; Buckley, 
1882; Nealley, 1884; Heller, no. 1547, Corpus Christi Bay), B. Frank, 
* Civitatis Missouri,’’ 1835, is probably from a middle Gulf state. 
B. Stellate. 
a. The 5-parted pistillate calyx not accrescent; margins of leaves 
entire or nearly so; small much branched shrubs of Florida or the 
South-west. 
1. Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, cordate or rounded at base. 
C. Brruanprert Torrey, Bot. U. S. and Mex. Bound. 
Surv. 193. 1859; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. 15?: 587. 
1866. C. balsamiferus Chapman, Fl. South. U. 8. 
407. 1860; Young, Fl. Texas 484. 1873; Coulter, 
Bot. West. Texas 399. 1894. C. humilis Muell. Arg. 
in DC. Prod. 15: 670. 1866; Chapman, Suppl. FI. 
South. U. S. 648. 1883; Coulter, Bot. West. Texas 
398. 1894. Oxydectes Berlandieri Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 
Plant. 611. 1891. 
A low shrub 8 to 8 dm. high; current branches stellate 
pubescent and viscid, the young branches incanous, at 
length smooth and whitish; leaves ovate to oblong, 2.5 to 
3.5 cm. long, base rounded to subcordate, the basilar 
glands often abortive, apex mostly abruptly acute, seldom 
acuminate, margins somewhat repand, the veins usually 
terminating in minute glands at the margins, tomentose 
above when young, becoming subglabrous, paler and 
pubescent below; monoecious or dioecious; the racemes 
when staminate or bi-sexual are slender and slightly nod- 
ding, 3to 5 cm. long, bearing 2 to 4 scattered pistillate 
flowers, or when purely staminate becoming longer, 5 to 7 
em.; staminate flowers 3 to 4 mm. broad, pedicels as long; 
sepals oval; petals spatulate, equalling the sepals, usually 
ciliate near the base; stamens 30 to 35 in western forms, 
15 to 20 in the Florida forms; pistillate racemes 2 to 2.5 
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