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late, glabrous or sparingly fine-pubescent, short-petioled; panicles 3-10 cm. long, simple or 
branched; pedicels 1-2 mm. long; calyx glabrous, the lobes ovate to triangular, sometimes 
becoming triangular-lanceolate, 2-3 mm. long, acute, ciliolate; corolla white or pink, 8-9 mm. 
long, nearly cylindric below the constricted throat, the lobes ovate, recurved; anther-sacs 
about 1.5 mm. long, each with 2 subulate awns; capsules spheroidal, 4 mm. broad, surpassing 
the calyx. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Pennsylvania. 
DISTRIBUTION: Mainly in the coastal plain, Massachusetts to Florida and Louisiana. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fi. f. 2766; ed. 2. f. 3240. 
2. Eubotrys elongata Small. 
Leucothoe elongata Small, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 284. 1899. 
A branching shrub 1-3 m. tall, with puberulent or fine-pubescent foliage; leaves firm, the 
blades oblong or elliptic, or sometimes oblong-oblanceolate or oblong-obovate, 2-5 cm. long, 
acute or slightly acuminate, serrulate, usually copiously fine-pubescent, gradually or abruptly 
narrowed into short petioles; panicles 10-20 cm. long; pedicels 1.5-3 mm. long; calyx usually 
puberulent, the lobes lanceolate, often narrowly so, 3-4.5 mm. long, acuminate, ciliolate; 
corolla white or pinkish, 7-8 mm. long, nearly cylindric below the somewhat: constricted 
throat, the lobes ovate, recurved; anther-sacs about 1.5 mm. long, each with 2 subulate awns; 
capsules spheroidal, 3.5-4 mm. broad, shorter than the sepals. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Florida. 
Disrrisution: Costal plain, Virginia to Florida and Louisiana. 
3. Eubotrys recurva (Buckl.) Britton; Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. 
ed. 2.2: 688. 1913. 
Andromeda recurva Buckl. Am. Jour. Sci. 45: 172. 1843. 
Leucothoe recurva A. Gray, Man. ed. 2: 252. 1856. 
A widely branching shrub 1-4 m. tall, with glabrate or minutely pubescent foliage; leaves 
deciduous, the blades thinnish but often rather firm, oval or elliptic, varying to ovate or 
obovate, 4-10 cm. long, acute or short-acuminate, serrate, rather abruptly narrowed or rarely 
rounded at the base, short-petioled; panicles 2-10 cm. long, simple or branching, often many- 
flowered; pedicels stout, 1-2 mm. long; calyx glabrous, the lobes oblong-ovate or ovate, 2-3 
mm. long, acute, involute; corolla white, 6-8 mm. long, oblong-cylindric, the lobes ovate 
recurved; anthers nearly 2 mm. long, each sac with a slehder awn; capsules spheroidal, 5-6 
mm. broad, lobed. 
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TyvPH LocALIty: Mountains near Paint Rock, Tennessee. 
DistrRIBuTION: In the mountains, Virginia and Tennessee to Georgia, and said to occur in 
Alabama. 
InLustRations: Garden & Forest 9: 225; Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 2765; ed. 2. f. 3239; Louns- 
berry, S. Wild Fl. 1. 128; Ic. Hort, Thenensis pl. 40. 
19. LEUCOTHOE D. Don, Edinb. New Phil. Jour. 17: 159. 1834. 
Shrubs with arching or erect usually pliable stems and branches. Leaves alternate, 
persistent; blades leathery, entire or toothed, petioled. Flowers perfect, in axillary, short, 
one-sided, spreading or cturved, raceme-like, spike-like, or corymb-like panicles. Calyx stellate; 
lobes usually 5, broad and short, much longer than the tube. Corolla white or nearly so, 
urceolate, much longer than the calyx, the lobes much shorter than the tube. Stamens 10, 
included; filaments subulate to lanceolate, often pubescent; anthers oblong, oval, or stb- 
globose, the sacs awnless, but obscurely or prominently bimucronate. Ovary 5-celled, lobed, 
depressed; style columnar, straight or nearly so; stigma slightly dilated, somewhat lobed. 
Capsule depressed, thick-walled, slightly 5-lobed, 5-valved, septicidal. 
Type species, Andromeda axillaris Lam. 
Filaments scabrous or short-pubescent, straight or nearly so; anthers prominently 
bimucronate. . . : 
Calyx-lobes strongly imbricate in anthesis; leaf-blades abruptly pointed or 
short-acuminate. . ; 
Calyx-lobes scarcely imbricate in anthesis: leaf-blades long-acuminate. 
Filaments villous, sigmoid-curved above; anthers obscurely bimucronate. 
Twigs pale; leaf-blades reticulate, acute or short-acuminate. _ 
Twigs dark; leaf-biades not reticulate, long. or caudate-acuminate. 
. L. axillaris. 
. L. Catesbaei. 
. L. acuminata. 
. L, mexicana. 
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