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glands relatively large; staminate flowers on pedicels 1 to 
2 mm. long; sepals oblong-oval ; petals oblanceolate, ciliate ; 
stamens 9 to 12, barely exserted, pilose at the base of the 
filaments ; pistillate flowers 1 to 3, subsessile at the base of 
the raceme, calyx of 5 subequal clavate sepals; petals small, 
subulate, or sometimes obsolete; gland prominent, the lobes 
extending about one third the length of the sepals; styles 
3, biparted, 1 to 2 mm. long; capsule pilose, oblong-oval, 
4.5 to 5mm. long; seeds oblong, punctate, 3 to 3.5 mm. 
long, caruncle stipitate; calyx accrescent, nearly equalling 
the capsule.— Plate 14. 
Specimens examined from Florida: Curtiss no. 180, Rocky pine woods 
bordering Bay of Biscayne, no. 5840, Miami. 
C. Miquetensis n.n. OC. chamaedryfolius Griseb. FI. 
Brit. West Ind. 41. 1864; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. 
15? :686. 1866. — Not Lamarck, Encycl. Meth. Bot. 
2:215. 1786, which is an Acalypha. Geiseleria 
chamaedryfolia Klotzsch, in Hooker, London Jour. 
Bot. 2:47. 1843; Miquel, Stirp. Surinam. Select. 
99. pl. 30. 1850. | 
Annual, 4 to 8 dm. high, short stellate-pubescent ; leaves 
ovate-lanceolate, 2 to 4 cm. long, crenato- or serrato-den- 
tate, base often oblique, generally truncate or slightly cor- 
date, biglandular, finely pubescent below, puberulent above ; 
petioles about 1 cm. long, shorter above; raceme short, 
usually about 1 cm. long, generally simple and terminal ; 
staminate flowers few, on short pedicels; bracts setaceous, 
the stipular glands small; petals narrowly oblong and cili- 
ate; stamens 8 to 10; pistillate flowers 3 to 4, on bracteate 
pedicels 2 to 5 mm. long, the upper ones almost equalling 
the staminate portion of the raceme; calyx of 5 subequal, 
lanceolate sepals; petals none, or mere rudiments; styles 3, 
biparted; capsule globose, 3 to 3.5 mm. broad, almost 
equalled by the accrescent sepals. 
Collected by Curtiss, no. 15, ballast earth at Pensacola, Florida, 1886. 
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