- DECANDREA. MONOGYNIA. ~ 965 
(The capsule of Clethra alnifolia possesses a similar struc- 
ture, excepting that the capsules are but 3 in place of 3, 
and do not separate spontaneously in consequence of be- 
ing inseparably united at the base.) Indigenous alsoto 
Siberia. Almost the only species in upper Louisiana. 5. 
augustifolia. Pu. Nearly allied to the preceding. 6. nitida. F 
~ Fascicles of flowers axillary, subracemose. In swamps © 
from North Carolina to Florida. 7. axillaris: Ons. Leaves 
oblong-oval, sublanceolate, acuminate, upper part carti- 
laginously serrulate, serratures mucronate, under side 
scattered with minute glandular hairs; younger branchés 
also pulverulently pubescent; racemes axillary, spiked, 
sessile, imbricately bracteate; corolla cylindric-ovate, an- 
thers awnless.—Stigma capitate. Capsule globular, de- 
pressed; septum indivisible, as in the preceding. Recep- 
tacular bodies 5, pendulous from the summit of the axis, 
each conspicuously pedicellate. Seeds brownish, angu- 
Jar, and truncate at the lower extremity. 4. spinulosa of 
Pursh is certainly the same species with the present, in 
which oval leaves are not uncommon. Has. From Vir- 
* ginia to Florida, and westward throughout the mountains 
« of North Carolina into East Tennessee. 8. acuminata. 9. 
floribunda. Discovered and so named by the late Mr. 
John Lyon. A very elegant species. i. 
Species with deciduous leaves. — 
10. mariana. An extremely fine, common, a) 
species, possessing somewhat the habit of 4.‘ 
flowering again in the autumn; its vernal fowetmg — 
branches are, however, nearly naked. .11. speciosa, “From __ 
I have never seen the variety pulve-" 
