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occasional spines. Petioles 3/’/-12’ long; stipular sheath with 
even, smooth or ciliolate margins, 4—¥% the length of the petiole, 
nearly always bearing tendrils. Blade rather thin, green on both 
sides, or sometimes glaucous beneath, ovate or round-ovate, often 
contracted in the middle or lobed at the base, obtuse cordate or 
subcordate at base, acute or cuspidate at the apex, commonly 
strongly lineolate, smooth or often bristly denticulate on the 
margins and nerves below, 214’-434’ long and 1%4’-3%’ broad, 
7-9-nerved, occasionally in orbicular forms with 1 or 2 additional 
nerves on each side. The leaves on old plants sometimes become 
quite thick, orbicular in shape and 4’ or 5’ in diameter, or even 
broader than long. Peduncles flattened, 1’—3/ long, 12-40-flowered. 
Pedicels 3/’-4’’ long. Segments of male perianth oblong-ovate, 
acute, 214” long; stamens 6-10; anther as long as or longer 
than the filament. Buds oval in shape. Segments of female 
flowers elliptical, 1/’-11%4”” long. Berries black, 8-16 in number, 
globose, 2-3’ in diameter, 1—3-seeded, on irregularly shaped 
receptacles 1//-2’” in diameter and apparently ebracteolate. 
Smilax Pseudo-China may be distinguished from S. hispida, 
with which it is liable to be confounded, by its usually more 
numerous flowers and fruit, its stouter and longer peduncles, the 
frequent absence of prickles, which are never so numerous as in 
hispida, the firmer texture of the leaves, and the more prominent 
and generally more numerous nerves, the 3 middle ones running 
more closely together. Besides this the blades of S. hispida are 
seldom or never strictly cordate at the base, and never contracted 
or lobed, as sometimes occurs in S. Pseudo-China. 
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that the Indians in Florida make them into meal and use It a) 
bread or in soup, under the name “Coonte.” Glabrous. >" 
terete or slightly angled below; branches angled, often square 
Prickles scattered or numerous, often stipular, often wanting 
Dry or sandy soil. District of Columbia to Florida and Texas, 
west to Arkansas and Nebraska. March—August. 
9. 
SMILAX Bona-nox L. Sp. Pl. 1030 (1753)- 
Smilax Bona-nox 8 L. 1030 (1753). 
Smilax hastata Willd. Sp. Pl. 4: 782 (1806). 
Smilax pandurata Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 251 (1814)- 
Smilax tamnoides A. Gray, Man. Ed. 1, 485 (1848), not. 
Smilax hederefolia (not Miller) and S. senticosa, Kunth, Eau™ 
209 (1850). : 
Rootstocks tuberous; Dr. Burrows (MS. in Torr. Herb.) statt® 
Stem 
