HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 213 
' Small trees or shrubs with alternate deciduous or sem- 
pervirent leaves; peduncles lateral or axillary, usually 
many-flowered; flowers small, sometimes 5, 7 or 8-cleft, 
with a similar number of stamina and seeds. 
Species. 1. P. verticillatus. Wioicous. 2. ambiguus. 
Michaux. Leaves deciduous, oval, entire, with a mucro- 
‘nulate point, petiolate, smooth on both sides; feminine 
flowers solitary, upon long peduncles, Ons. A small tree 
with a smooth whitish bark; leaves betwixt oval and el- 
liptic, always entire on the margin, about one inch and 
a half long, and one inch wide, petioles near half an inch; 
peduncles of the fruit often 2 inches in length. This is 
not P. ambiguus of Mr. Pursh,’ which seems to be littl 
more than a variety of No. 1. git 
3. levigatus. Pu. 4. lanceolatus.Pu. 5. glaber. (Inks 
berries.) 6. coriaceous. Pu. 7. *atomarius. Leaves sem= 
pervirent, cuneate-oval, acute, coriaceous, apex subser- > 
rate, under side atomiferous; younger branches subvis- 
cose; pedicells lateral, 1-flowered; berries tuberous — 
: Ons. Nearly allied to P. glaber, but evidently distinct; 
; perhaps more nearly related to P. coriaceus of Pursh, but 
] by no means reconcileable with his description. Jt is a 
shrub much higher and larger as well as broader leaved 
than P. glaber; the leaves 1 and a half to 2 inches long, 
and from 10 to 12 lines wide, serratures mucronate, not 
exceeding 2 pair, situated towards the point, often want 
ing; under side scattered with minute blackish atoms; 
. younger branches or shoots brown and viscid, in P. glaber 
‘ minutely pubescent. Berry 6-seeded, large. Has. In 
Georgia (around Savannah), South and North Carolina; 
Es rather rare. ae , 
An American genus, of which 4 other species are indi- . 
genous to the West Indies. fo ee 
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+t Flowers spathaceous. | 
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Corolla superior, funnelform, with a long 
tube. Lepanthium (nectary) 12-cleft, bearing 4 
the stamina. 
Spatha 1-leaved, opening laterally, 1 or many-flowered. 
Species. 1. P. mexicanum. 2. retatum. 3. mari-— 
= f this. splendid is indigene 
The greater part of this splendid genus is igenous 
to tropical America, there are ai the same time 2 species’ 
in and 3 in Europe. py 
