Parr 1, 1914] ERICACEAE 89 
in age; petals oblong to ovate-oblong, 2-2.5 mm. long; capsules ovoid, about 3 mm. long, 
glabrous, more than twice as long as the calyx. 
Typx Locauity: North America. 
DistRiBvtion: Coastal plain, New Jersey; also recorded from as far south as Florida, but no 
specimens have been seen from south of New Jersey. 
InLustrations: Lam. Tab. Encyc. pl. 363; Bot. Cab. pl. 52; Herb. Gén. Amat. pl. 242; Britt. 
& Brown, Ill. Ft. f. 2754; ed. 2. f. 3226; Goodale, Wild Fl. Am. #l. 49; Bot. Reg. 7: gl. 531. 
2. Dendrium Lyoni (Sweet) Small. 
Ammyrsine Lyoni Sweet, Hort. Brit. 344. 1830. 
Ammyrsine prostrata Loud. Hort. Brit. 477. 1832. 
Leiophyllum prosiratum Loud. Arb. 1155. 1839, 
Leiophyllum Lyoni Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 3. 444. 1839. 
Leiophyllum buxifolium prostratum A. Gray, Am. Jour. Sci. 42:36. 1842. 
Dendrium buxifolium prostratum Ashe, Bot. Gaz. 24: 377. 1897. 
Dendrium prostratum Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 882. 1903. 
A diffuse or depressed copiously branched shrub with often matted branches, nearly 
glabrous, 2 dm. tall or less; leaves mostly opposite, the blades oval or broadly oblong, 4-7 mm. 
long or smaller, dark-green and shining above, paler and dull beneath, short-petioled; pedicels 
pubescent, more or less glandular; calyx-lobes lanceolate to linear, about 1.5 mm. long, acute 
or obtusish; petals ovate or oval, 2.5 mm. long; capsules broadly ovoid to globose-ovoid, 2.5-3 
mm. long, sharp-tuberculate on the back. 
‘Tyre Locaurry: Carolina, 
DISTRIBUTION: Mountain summits, North Carolina and Tennessee. 
ILLUSTRATION: Lounsberry, S. Wild Fi. pl. 122. 
3. Dendrium Hugeri Small, Bull. Torrey Club 28: 360. 1901. 
An erect much-branched shrub 9 dm. tall or less, nearly glabrous to the inflorescence; 
leaves alternate, the blades oblong or individually oblong-ovate, 9-15 mm. long, dark-green 
and shining above, paler and dull beneath, short-petioled; pedicels pubescent and minutely 
glandular; calyx-lobes lanceolate, 2 mm. long or sometimes shorter, acute; petals broadly 
ovate or rhombic-ovate, 3.5-4 mm. long; capsules ovoid, 3.5-4 mm. long, muricate or scabrous 
on the back. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Top of Table Mountain, South Carolina. 
DistRisuTion: Mountain North Carolina and South Carolina. 
4. ELLIOTTIA Muhli.; Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1: 448. 1817. 
Shrubs with erect branching stems. Leaves alternate; blades broad or sometimes narrow, 
thickish and firm in age, entire, with alternate lateral veins, petioled. Flowers perfect, in 
terminal elongate racemes or panicles. Calyx saucer-shaped; lobes 3-5, usually 4, broad and 
short, about as long as the tube. Corolla white or pink; petals recurved, narrow, elongate, 
tnequal. Stamens 8, nearly erect, shorter than the petals; filaments subulate; anthers much 
shorter than the filaments, sagittate. Ovary 3-5-celled, lobed, depressed; style elongate, 
curved, enlarged near the apex; stigma lobed. Capsule depressed, shallowly 3-5-lobed, 3~5- 
valved, septicidal. 
Type species, Elliottia racemosa Muhl. 
1. Elliottia racemosa Muhl.; Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1: 448. 1817. 
Shrub 3 m. tall or less, with glabrous or obscurely pubescent twigs; leaf-blades oblong, 
elliptic, oval, oblong-oblanceolate, or obovate, 4-14 cm. long, acuminate at both ends or 
abruptly pointed at the apex, minutely bristle-tipped, glabrous or loosely fine-pubescent 
beneath, shining above and somewhat reticulate beneath in age; racemes or panicles erect, 
many-flowered; buds nodding: flowers spreading, slender-pedicelled; calyx 3-4 mm. broad, the 
lobes broadly triangular to reniform, often ciliate; petals broadly linear, linear-oblong, or 
slightly dilated near the apex, 9-15 mm. long; stamens 6-8 mm. long; style 11-17 mm. long; 
capsules spheroidal or somewhat ovoid, about 5 mm. wide. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Waynesboro, Georgia. 
DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Georgia and adjacent South Carolina. 
In.ustrations: Garden & Forest 7: f. 37; Sarg. Silva pl. 712; Sarg. Man. f. 581; Britton, N. Am. 
Trees f. 686; Ann. N. Y. Acad. 17: pl. 19, f. 2; pl. 20; Lounsberry, S. Wild Fl. pl. 124. 
