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84 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



and 



years with long white hairs, finally becoming ashy gray 

 glabrous, and armed with slender nearly straight purple 

 sDines 5-6 cm. loner. 



Palmer 



d C. S. Saraent, (No. C type) May 11, 1902, E. J 



July 13, 1902, April 14, 1903; hills, Prosperity Junction, near 

 Webb City, Jasper County, E. J. Palmer (No. 13) April 28 

 and September 28, 1902, April 13, 1903, (No. 13 A) April 27, 



1902. 



VIRIDES. 



Leav 





at the base; petioles slender, elongated, mostly cglandular; flowers in 

 usually many-flowered corymbs; stamens 15-20; anthers yellow (color 

 unknown in No. 8); fruit subglobose to short-oblong or obovate. 



Fruit not exceeding 7 mm. in diameter. 

 Corymbs many-flowered. 



Fruit scarlet. 



Fruit subglobose ; leaves ovate to oblong-obovate ; 



bark smooth, gray or pale orange color. 1. C. viridis. 



Fruit obovate; leaves oval to rhombic; bark dark and 



scaly. 

 Fruit orange or orange-red, subglobose. 



2. C. larga. 



Leaves lanceolate. 3. C. lanceolata. 



Leaves 



4. C, ovata. 



Corymbs 5-8-flowered ; fruit orange-red; leaves oval to obovate. 



5. C furcata. 



Fruit 1-L8 cm. long. 

 Fruit pruinose. 



Leaves lanceolate to oblong-obovate, acuminate, coriaceous, 

 dark green, very lustrous; fruit dull brick-red, up to 1 .8 cm. 

 in length. 6. C. nitida. 



Leaves obovate, rounded and short-pointed or acute at the 

 apex, thin, yellow-green; fruit crimson, 1-L2 cm. in 

 diameter. 7. C ludoviciensis. 



I 



Fruit not pruinose. 



Fruit subglobose to short-oblong. 



Leaves obovate to oval or rhombic, narrowed at the base; 



fruit crimson; corymbs glabrous. 8. C mitis. 



Leaves ovate, rounded or truncate at the broad base, 



fruit dark red; corymbs sUghtly villose. 



9. C. atroruhens. 



Fruit obovate; leaves ovate to oval; corymbs slightly 



villose; fruit orange-red, 10. C. Dawsoniana. 



