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oblanceolate, acute or obtuse at the apex, acute at the base, glab- 
Tous, reticulated, the midrib prominent beneath, sessile, or on 
petitoles 7 mm. long or less; flowers solitary in the axils of the 
leaves, or rarely terminating the branches, on slender glabrous or 
sparingly pubescent peduncles 1-2 cm. long ; sepals ovate, nearly 
glabrous, 1-1.5 cm. long; mature outer petals oblong-obovate to 
obovate, 3.5—6 cm. long, 2~3 cm. wide, yellowish white, even at 
the time of falling; fruit, probably not fully grown, cylindric- 
oblong, about 3 cm. in length. 2a 
Pine lands in Georgia and north Florida. 
Specimens examined: 
Georgia: Small, Albany, Dougherty Co., July, 1895; Bain- 
bridge, Decatur Co., June, 1895; Albany, Dougherty Co., May 
24-28, 1895. os 
Florida: Chapman, Apalachicola. 
Curtiss, no. 87 *, Gainesville. 
Nash, no. 2153, Lake City, Columbia Co., July 11-19, 
1895. : 
Leavenworth, vicinity of Fort King and Fort Drane. 
Alexander, Gadsden Co. 
Rugel, between Tallahassee and St. Mark’s, May and 
June, 1843. 
The leaves of this plant are most variable in shape. In a 
Specimen collected by Dr. Chapmam at Apalachicola, preserved 
in the herbarium of Columbia University, they are from 5-8 cm. 
long and from 1-2 cm. wide. This matches the figure given by 
Dunal of his A. pygmaca,* having the short straight ascending 
branches and the petals obovate and about 3 cm. long, just as 
there represented. In the extreme of variation, represented by 
Curtiss, no, 87 *, and Nash, no. 2153, the leaves are 8-20 cm. © 
long, and only 5-15 mm. wide; the petals narrowly obovate and 
5-6 cm. long. There are numerous plants connecting these two 
€xtremes ; indeed, leaves nearly representing the two forms were 
Noticed on the same plant by the writer during the past summer. 
Another form of this plant has a flower terminating the 
branches and no flowers in the axils of the leaves. This is prob- 
ably but a variation, and it seems best to refer it to this species. — 
Dr. Small’s plant, collected at Albany, Georgia, in May, 1895, 
* Monog. Anon. f/. zo. 1817, 
