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1. LAURIFOUA. LAi;RL-LEAVi;P. 



Acer scamli'iis/oi/is laurim's. Sloane, v. 2, p. 26. FoUis ovatis, sc- 

 tninUms unialatis glabris, racemis latcralibus. Browaej p. 231. 

 Sj/annorc. Barham, p. 1S5. 



Leaves ovate, oblong, rigid ; racemes terminal ; branches ferruginous, downy. 



Stem shrubby, cHmhing, with loose, reflex-diverging, rounaish rugged branches. 

 Leaves petioled, ovate-lanceolate, acute, entire, conaceous-membranaceous, nerveci, 

 smuotii. Racemes panicled, terniinaiing branches, and twigs decui^sate, ferruginous- 

 tomentose, peduncles coiunionly one-flowered, ferruginous, short, yellow. Leaflets 

 at the base of the peduncles two, opposite, minute, tomentose. Calyx five-leaved; 

 leaflets ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, with two round, depressed, green glands, fastened 

 to tlie base. I'etals spatulate. Anthers elliptic. Genu three cornered, tnfid at the 

 tip : styles subulate, short-: stigmas dilated, as it were halved. One of the three cap- 

 sules is usually abortive ; tlie v\ings three or four times longer than the capsules. 



This shrub has a stalk no bigger than a swans quill, covered with a whitish coloured 

 ariooth bark, having a preUy large pith.. It nses by and turns round any plant it comes 

 near, mounting several feet high, sending forth foot-long branches, with twigs standing 

 opposite one to the other, the leaves, on quarter inch long footstalks, are three inches- 

 lone and half as broad, in the middle, whore broadest, endii.g in a point, having one 

 niidJie rib and several transverse ones, being smooth, hard, thin, and dark green.. 

 Tiie tops of the small branches, for three inches in length, are beset with yellow flowers, 

 spike fashion. It grew plentifully on the banlii of the Rio Cobre, on the road to Pas- 

 eage Fort, and in a gidly by the church in St. Dorothy's. Sloane. 



I have often seen, as I have rode along, a small plant among the bushes, growing 

 about six or seven feet high, vvluch seemed not to be able to s-<'port itself, but yet did 

 Dot climb about any thing : It had a very small stalk, and but few leaves, as large as a 

 laurel, but thin and softer. At the top were branches of yellowish flowers ; afterwards 

 tanae winged seed-vessels, exactly hke the sycamore. Barham, p. 185. 



2. LONGIFOLIA. LOXG-I.EAVED. 



Leaves oblong, acuminate, rigid, shining ; panicle terminating, branches 

 spreading very much. 



3. FULGEN3. SHINING. 



Acer scandens minus, apoci/ni fucie, folio suhroiundo. Sloane, v. 2, 

 p. 27. t. 162, f. 2. Foliis orbiculatis, petiolis biglandulis, seininibus 

 unialatis rugosis, racemis subunibellatis alaribus. Browne, p. 231. 



Leaves subovate, . downy underneath: racemes cross armed; peduncles urn- 

 belled. 



This has slender winding stalks, which rise five or six feet high. Tiie flowers grow 

 in a round bunch at the extremity of the branches, and are of a browiiiih yeiioiv colour. 

 The leaves are ovate with a point, villose beneath, shining, smooth on the upper sur- 

 face. A solitary branch comes forth from the axils, furnished with leaves, producin<3- 

 at top, in a kind of umbel, several filiform, simple, one-flowered, peduncies. Seeds 

 eirett^ the outer angle decreasing to an edge, the inner more blunt, putting forth a. 



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