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1. Afzelia pectinata (Pursh) Kuntze. 



Seymeria peclinata Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 2: 737. 1814. " In South Caro- 

 lina. Catesby. v. s. in Herb. Sherard." Type not seen, but description 

 distinctive. 



Seymeria jacksoni Ell., Sketch Bot. S. C. and Ga. 2: 123. 1824. "Sent to 

 me from Louisville, Ga., by Mr. Jackson." Tj^pe seen in the Elliott 

 Herbarium at the Charleston Museum. 



Seymeria heterophyla Raf., New Fl. Amer. 2: 68. 1837. "Alabama and 

 Georgia, my specimen from Le Conte." Type not known to exist. 



Afzelia pectinata (Pursh) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 1: 457. 1891. 



Dry sandy longleaf pineland, in the Coastal Plain from South 

 Carolina^° to Louisiana, south in the Florida peninsula to Brevard 

 County; inland reported from the Pine Mountains of Meriwether 

 County, Georgia, ^1 and from the metamorphic region of northeastern 

 Alabama. '2 



Flowering in August and September, fruiting September and 

 October. Corolla deep golden-yellow, more or less marked with 

 purple red within throat and at the bases of the lobes. 



Pennell (Georgia)— 4732, 4760, 4780, 4845. (Florida)— 4568, 

 4585, 4645, 4656, 4674, 4686, 4705, 4715, 4802. (Alabama)— 4630. 



la. Afzelia pectinata peninsularis Pennell, var. nov. 



Stem 4-6 dm. tall, finely glandular-pubescent to -puberulent in 

 lines with ascending-incurved to -appressed hairs. Leaves glandu- 

 lar-pubescent to -puberulent, those of the stem 1-2 cm. long, 5-8 

 mm. wide. Pedicels in flower 5 mm. long, in fruit 7-10 mm. long. 

 Caljoc-lobes 4. 5. mm. long. Corolla 8 mm. long, its tube 3-3.5 mm, 

 long, its lobes 4.5 mm. long. Style 4-5 mm. long. Capsule min- 

 utel}' glandular-pubescent with hairs slightly dark-jointed, most or 

 all with terminal knob-like glands. Seeds 1.2-1.4 mm. long. 



Type, flat woods, Marco, Lee Co., Florida, collected in fruit July- 

 August, 1900, A. S. Hitchcock 254, in United States National Her- 

 barium. 



Flat long-leaf pineland or hammocks, southern Florida. 



Flowering June to August, probably flowering and fruiting through- 

 out the year. 



2. Afzelia cassioides (Walt.) J. F. Gmel. 



Anonymos cassioides Walt., Fl. Carol. 171. 1788. Presumably from lower 

 South Carolina. Description sufficiently distinctive. 



Afzelia cassioides (Walt.) J. F. Gmel., Syst. 927. 1791. 



Gerardia afzelia Michx., Fl. Bor. Amer. 2: 20. 1803. New name for Af- 

 zelia cassioides (Walt.) Gmel. 



Seymeria tenuifolia Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 737. 1814. New name for 

 Gerardia cassioides (Walt.) Pers. 



" Reported from lower North Carolina, collected by Croom [see M. A. Curtis, 

 Bot. N. C. .39. 1867]. 



" Harper, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 36: 587. 1909. 

 i^Earle, Ala. Agric. Exp. Sta., Bull. 119: 104. 1902. 



