white; petals united at base, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 3-3.8 mm. long; stamens in 

 staminate flowers slightly shorter than the petals; staminodia in pistillate flowers 

 about three fourths as long as the petals; ovary in pistillate flowers ovoid, about 

 1.5 mm. long, usually 4-celled; stigma large, sessile, capitate; drupe globose or 

 depressed-globose, bright-red or orange, to 7.5 mm. in diameter, crowned by the 

 persistent stigma, often persisting on the branches until the leaves appear the 

 following spring; stones usually 4, strongly ribbed, to 5 mm. long. 



In woods, often bordering streams, swamps or ravines in e. and cen. Tex. and 

 e. Okla. (Waterfall), Mar.-May; from Va., w. to 111., s. to Fla., Tex. and Kan. 



5. Hex longipes Chapm. Georgia holly. Chapman's holly. 



Shrub or small tree, rarely to 7 m. high; twigs slender, subterete, glabrous; leaves 

 deciduous; petioles slender, canaliculate, puberulent above with minute incurved 

 hairs, 3-10 mm. long; leaf blades membranaceous or chartaceous with age, dark- 

 green above, paler beneath, elliptic to obovate or oblanceolate-elliptic, to 6 cm. 

 long and 3 cm. wide, short-acuminate to acute or obtusish at apex, minutely mucro- 

 nulate, subcuneate and acute at base, the margin subcrenulate-serrulate, the teeth 

 subappressed-mucronulate, sparsely short-hirtellous above along the midvein, 

 irregularly ciliolate, short-hirtellous or puberulent beneath along the midvein and 

 primary veins; inflorescence axillary, not peduncled, the staminate flowers fascicu- 

 late, the pistillate flowers usually solitary; pedicels slender, glabrous, usually 1-2 

 cm. long, sometimes to 3 cm. long; flowers 4-parted, small; calyx glabrous; stami- 

 nate calyx subcupuliform, about 2 mm. in diameter, the triangular lobes acute and 

 denticulate; calyx of pistillate flowers slightly larger; corolla rotate; petals united 

 at base, elliptic, to 3.3 mm. long, not ciliolate; stamens subequaling petals, the 

 staminodia a third shorter than petals; ovary in pistillate flowers ovoid, to 2.5 mm. 

 long, 4-celled, the stigma capitate; drupe globose, 5.5-8 mm. in diameter; stones 4, 

 inconspicuously striate-sulcate, to 5.5 mm. long. 



In swamps, upland forests and often on sandy banks of streams in s.e. Tex., 

 Mar.-May; from N.C. and Tenn., s. to Fla. and Tex. 



The var. longipes is usually a larger plant than var. hirsuta Lundell. Characters 

 used in the key are the main ones for separating these two entities. 



6. Hex vomiforia Ait. Yaupon. 



Shrub or tree, evergreen, to 8 m. high; twigs usually short, rather stout, rigid, 

 obtusely angled, densely puberulent; petioles puberulent, usually 1-3 mm. long, 

 sometimes to 6 mm. long; leaf blades coriaceous, dark-green and lustrous above, 

 paler beneath, elliptic to oblong or oblong-elliptic to ovate-elliptic, sometimes 

 obovate-elliptic. to 55 mm. long and 28 mm. wide, usually much smaller, crenulate 

 to crenate or crenulate-serrulate, the teeth mucronulate, obtuse and usually minutely 

 emarginate and mucronulate at apex, obtuse to rounded or rarely acuti 'i at base, 

 at first puberulent above along the midvein and at base, glabrous otherwise; inflo- 

 rescences fasciculate in the leaf axils, the staminate usually 3-flowered, the pistillate 

 1-flowered; peduncle of staminate inflorescence short, usually puberulent; pedicels 

 1.3-3.8 mm. long, those of staminate flowers glabrous, those of pistillate flowers 

 puberulent; flowers 4-parted; calyx glabrous, the broadly ovate or rounded lobes 

 about 0.5 mm. long; corolla white; petals united at base, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 

 2-3 mm. long, to 2 mm. wide; stamens subequaling the petals; staminodia shorter 

 than the petals; ovary in pistillate flowers conic-ovoid, 1.5-2 mm. long, 4-celled, 

 the stigma capitate; drupe globose, lucid, bright-red, to 6.5 mm. in diameter, 

 crowned by the persistent stigma; stones 4, striate, to 4 mm. long. 



In low woods, hammocks and sandy pine lands, occasionally in swamps and 

 fioodplain woods, in s.e. and s.-cen. Tex. and s.e. Okla. (Waterfall), Apr.-May; 

 from Va., s. to Fla., Ark. and Tex. 



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