Part 1, 1914] ERICACEAE 63 
Calyx-lobes lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, less than half as long as the capsule to 
which they are appressed; filaments puberulent; corolla less than 7 mm. long; 
capsule not angled. 1. P. floribunda. 
Calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, half as long as the capsule and spreading or recurved 
at maturity; filaments villous; corolla over 8 mm. long; capsule angled. 2. P. cubensis, 
1. Pieris floribunda (Pursh) Benth. & Hook. Gen. Pl. 2: 588. 
1876. 
Andromeda floribunda Pursh; Sims, Bot. Mag. pl. 1566. 1813. 
Leucothoe floribunda D. Don, Edinb. New Phil. Jour. 17: 159. 1834. 
Zenobia floribunda DC. Prodr. 7: 598. 1839. 
Portuna floribunda Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. IT. 8: 268. 1843. 
Andromeda montana Buckl. Am. Jour. Sci. 45: 172. 1843. 
A shrub 3-18 dm. tall, with strigose or somewhat bristly twigs and erect often gregarious 
stems and branches; leaf-blades leathery, oblong, elliptic, or oblong-lanceolate, 2-8 cm. long, 
acute or short-acuminate, serrulate, bristly ciliate, obtuse or subcordate at the base; petioles 
3-10 mm. long, strigose; panicles rather dense, 5-10 cm. long; calyx glabrous, the lobes lanceo- 
late or ovate-lanceolate, 2-2.5 mm. long, acute; corolla white, pyramidal-urceolate, 4.5-6 mm. 
long; anthers about 1 mm. long; capsules oblong-globose or ovoid-globose, 5-6 mm. long, 
somewhat angled. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Mountains of Georgia. 
DistRIBUTION: Mountains, Virginia to Georgia. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Bot. Mag. 1. 1566; Bot. Rez. pl. 807; Paxton’s Mag. Bot. 4: $1. 101; Britt. & 
Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 2768; ed. 2. f. 3242. 
2. Pieris cubensis (Griseb.) Small. 
Andromeda cubensis Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cub. 51. 1866. 
A shrub mostly 2 m. tall or less, with glabrous or almost glabrous twigs and spreading 
branches; leaf-blades linear to linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate, 4-11 cm. long, acute or 
acutish, entire or obscurely and remotely toothed above the middle, callous-margined, glabrous, 
reticulate; petioles mostly less than 0.5 mm. long, glabrous; panicles open; calyx finely pubes- 
cent, the lobes linear-lanceolate, 5-6 mm. long, acuminate; corolla white, pyramidal-urceolate, 
9-10 mm. long; anthers fully 1.5 mm. long; capsules globose or slightly depressed, 6-7 mm. 
long, slightly angled. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Western Cuba. 
DisTRIBuTION: Pinar del Rio, Cuba. 
27. AMPELOTHAMNUS Small, Shrubs Fla. 96. 1913. 
Shrubs, or usually vines, with nearly terete branches. (Stem flattened when under 
bark of tree.) Leaves alternate, persistent; blades rather broad, leathery, more or less toothed 
above the middle or near the apex, short-petioled. Flowers in raceme-like panicles which are 
solitary in the leaf-axils. Calyx persistent; lobes 5, of a lanceolate type, appressed to the 
corolla, leathery. Corolla white, ovoid; tube only slightly, if at all angled; lobes very short, 
broad, nearly erect. Stamens 10, included; filaments flat, broad, sigmoid-curved near the 
top, unappendaged; anthers oblong, each sac with a slender dorsal appendage. Ovary 5-celled, 
lobed, depressed; style slender-columnar; stigma minute. Capsule spheroidal, slightly lobed. 
Type species, Andromeda phillyreifolia Hook. 
1. Ampelothamnus phillyreifolia (Hook.) Small, Shrubs Fla. 96. 
1913. 
Andromeda phillyreifolia Hook. Ic. pl. 122. 1837. 
Pieris phillyreifolia DC. Prodr. 7: 599. 1839. 
?Andromeda Croomia Torr.; Wood, Class Book ed. 1861. 487. 1861. 
A branching shrub 3-6 dm. tall with glabrate foliage, or a vine climbing the trunks of 
trees by creeping under outer bark; leaf-blades oblong to elliptic, oval, or oblong-oblanceolate 
or rarely obovate, 2-7 cm. long, leathery, serrate near the apex, revolute, more or less shining 
above, narrowed into short petioles; racemes 1-4 cm. long, solitary in the leaf-axils, 4-12- 
flowered; flower-stalks 2-6 mm. long, with small subulate-lanceolate bracts; calyx-lobes 
