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lanceolate or triangular-lanceolate, 4-5 mm. long, acuté, lustrous; corolla ovoid, 7-8 mm. 
long, terete or nearly so: capsules spheroidal, 4-5 mm. broad, ribbed.— Usually climbs Taxo- 
dium ascendens, rarely on Chamaecyparis or Cyrilla parvifolia. 
TYPE Locality: Apalachicola, Florida. 
Distrisution: Southern Georgia, northern Florida, and adjacent Alabama. 
ILLustRations: Hook. Ic. pl. 122; Bot. Reg. 30: pl. 36. 
28. DESMOTHAMNUS Small, Shrubs Fla. 96. 1913. 
Shrubs with prominently angled branches and glabrous foliage. eaves alternate, per- 
sistent; blades leathery, broad, entire, with intramarginal veins, short-petioled. Flowers 
perfect, in the axils of the persistent leaves of the preceding year. Calyx somewhat succulent, 
stellate; lobes narrow, sometimes slightly foliaceous, persistent. Corolla white, pink, or red, 
of an ovoid-conic type and constricted at the orifice, nodding. Stamens 10, included; filaments 
slender above the slightly dilated base, glabrous, sometimes slightly papillose, each with a 
pair of appendages near the top; anthers short, unappendaged. Ovary 5-celled, ovoid, lobed; 
style fusiform; stigma minute. Capsule globose or ovoid-globose, rounded at the apex, the 
sutures thickened. 
Type species, Andromeda nitida Bartr. 
1. Desmothamnus lucidus (Lam.) Small. 
Andromeda lucida Lam, Encye. 1: 157. 1783. 
Andromeda nitida Bartr.; Marsh. Arbust 8. 1785. 
Andromeda coriacea Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 70. 1789. 
Andromeda myrtifolia Salisb. Prodr. 290. 1796. 
Andromeda marginata Veillard, Nouv. Duham. 1: 188. 1802. 
Lyonia marginata D. Don, Edinb. New Phil. Jour. 17: 159. 1834. 
Leucothoe coriacea:‘DC. Prodr. 7: 602. 1839. 
Leucothoe marginata Spach, Hist. Vég. 9: 482. 1840. 
Andrameda lacustris C. Wright; Sauv. Anal. Acad. Ci. Habana 6: 250. 1870. 
Pieris nitida Benth. & Hook. Gen. Pl. 2: 588. 1876. 
Andromeda obovata Raf.; A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. 2!: 32, as synonym. 1878. 
Neopieris nitida Britton; Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. ed. 2. 2: 690. 1913. 
Desmothamnus nitidus Small, Shrubs Fla. 96. 1913. 
An evergreen shrub 1.5-2 m. tall, with sharply angled branches; leaf-blades leathery, 
oblong, elliptic, oval or obovate, or somewhat spatulate, 2-8 cm. long, abruptly acuminate, 
shining, at least above, smooth, revolute, narrowed into short petioles; flower-clusters axillary, 
often contiguous; pedicels 3-8 mm. long, clavate; calyx somewhat fleshy, the lobes lanceolate 
to linear-lanceolate, 3-5 mm. long in anthesis, acute or acuminate, lustrous; corolla white to 
red, ovoid-conic, 5-9 mm. long, somewhat constricted at the throat, the short lobes recurved; 
stamens 4-7 mm. long; capsules subglobose or ovoid-globose, about 4 mm. high, exceeded by 
the sepals or about equaling them in length. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Carolina. 
DISTRIBUTION: Coastal plain, Virginia to Florida and Louisiana; Cuba. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Jacq. Ic. Pl. Rar. pl. 465 (as Andromeda mariana); Bot. Mag. pl. 1095; Britt. 
& Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 2769; ed. 2. f. 3243. 
29. NEOPIERIS Britton; Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. ed. 2. 2: 690. 
1913. 
Shrubs with terete branches and sparingly pubescent or glabrate foliage. Leaves alter- 
nate, deciduous; blades thin-leathery, relatively broad, entire, without intramarginal veins, 
short-petioled. Flowers perfect, in clusters along the leafless branches of the previous year. 
Calyx herbaceous, stellate; leaves narrow, somewhat foliaceous, ribbed in age, deciduous 
with the leaves. Corolla white or pale, cylindraceous-campanulate, nodding. Stamens 10, 
included; filaments flat, pubescent, each with a pair of appendages near the top; anthers long, 
unappendaged. Ovary 5-celled, lobed, slightly elongate; style columnar; stigma slightly 
dilated. Capsule of an ovoid type, truncate at the contracted apex, the sutures much 
thickened. 
Type species, Andromeda mariana L,. 
