62 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
1860. Hendecandra maritima Klotzsch, in Wiegmann, 
Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte 7: 252. 1841. Gynam- 
blosis maritima Baillon, Etud. Gen. Euphorb. 372. 
1858.— Not C. punctatus Loureiro, Flor. Cochin 
China 518. 1790; nor Coulter, Bot. West. Texas 397. 
1894, which is C. argyranthemus Michx. 
Perennial, diffuse, .5 to 1 m. high, di- or trichotomous ; 
branches and inflorescence cinereous or rusty-tomentose ; 
leaves elliptical, oblong, ovate; apex obtuse or acute; base 
truncate or cordate; entire or undulate; 1 to 5 em. long; 
whitish, densely puberulent above; densely stellate-scaly, 
tomentose beneath; petioles one half to as long as the 
leaves; stipules obsolete; monoecious or dioecious; stam- 
inate raceme simple pr: branched , few to. several, flowered, 
interrupted and oonttaliy shits ,]! sta a: ‘ents ibhg; ‘the lower 
part naked; pedicels 2 in zt Te, longs. bracts narrow and 
exceedingly deciduous ;*.5: t¢ 6 subequal. deltoid sepals; 
petals none or rudimentary ;-ylaysls oval and scale-like ; 
stamens about 12, barely exsertéd} filaments ciliate; pis- 
tillate raceme short, about 1 cm. long, with 1 to 3 sessile 
flowers; bracts deltoid; calyx parted into 5 equal, oblong 
or cuneate sepals; petals none; gland annular; styles 3, 
3- to 4-parted, 1 to 2 mm. long; capsule subglobose, de- 
pressed, 5 to 8 mm. long, 6 to 11 mm. broad, trigastric; 
calyx not accrescent; seeds about 6 mm. long, dark or 
variegated; caruncle large, substipitate. — Common along 
the south Atlantic and Gulf coasts from North Carolina to 
Venezuela.— Plate 25. 
Specimens examined as follows: Canby, 1867; McCarthy; Biltmore 
herb, 2117a; Hymans, 1876; Coville, no. 148, ‘‘ about 25 miles from Wil- 
mington, annual or perennial, a globular bush about one and a half feet 
high; ’’ LeConte; M. A. Curtis, Sandy sea coast of N. C. 1845; Gros- 
venor, 1864; Chapman; Curtiss, 1875, nos. 2519, 5532; Garber, 1877; 
Simpson, 1889; Nash, no. 2438; Reynolds, 1875; Keeler, 1870-76; Web- 
ber, nos. 229, 486; Dean; J. D. Smith, 1882; Palmer, nos. 486, 1237; 
Underwood, 1896; Tracy, 1891, no. 4724; Frank, 1835; Buckley, 1882; 
Lindheimer, 1842; Wright; Robbins; Bodin, no. 67; Nealley, no. 
58 = 458; Heller, no. 1423; Berlandier, 3213; Gregg, no. 3; Liebmann, 
