Shrubs and Trees of the Southern States.— III. 



By John K. Small 

 1. HITHERTO UNDESCRIBED SPECIES 



Prunus Cuthbertii 



A tree 6 m. tall and sometimes 1.5 dm. in diameter near the 

 base, with tomentose twigs. Leaf-blades leathery, normally obovate, 

 varying to oval or fiddle-shaped, 4-9 cm. long, blunt or notched 

 at the apex, shallowy serrate, not markedly biglandular at the 

 often cuneate base, dull green above, pale or glaucescent beneath, 

 the midrib and petioles copiously tomentose and the lateral veins 

 slightly so : racemes 5-8 cm. long, terminating short leafy 

 branches, the rachis and pedicels pubescent like the twigs : pedicels 

 clavate, 3—5 mm. long during anthesis, becoming 8— ii mm. 

 long : sepals broader than long, obtuse, shorter than the hypan- 

 thium : petals suborbicular, about 2 mm. in diameter, crisped : 

 drupes subglobose, mostly 8-9 mm. in diameter, red. 



In rich woods, near Augusta, Georgia. 



A relative of Priimis scrotina differing in the decidedly obovate 

 blunt leaf-blades and the tomentose glandless petioles and tomen- 

 tose veins of the blades and the similarly pubescent racemes. The 

 flowers are smaller and the very blunt sepals are much broader 

 than the acute sepals of P. serotina. The fruit also furnishes a 

 character in its decidedly red color. The original specimens were 

 collected by Mr. A. Cuthbert in the vicinity of Augusta, Georgia, 

 on July 17, 1898, and June 2, 1899. Type in the herbarium of 

 the New York Botanical Garden. 



Leucothoe platyphylla 



A straggling shrub 0.5—1 m. tall, with spreading and drooping 

 branches. Twigs and branches finely pubescent : leaf-blades sub- 

 orbicular to oval, broadly oblong or oblong-ovate, 5—8 cm. long, 

 abruptly pointed or slightly acuminate, serrate with • very fine 

 spinulose teeth, especially above the middle : petioles stout, 4—8 

 mm. long, pubescent : racemes 2—5 cm. long, the rachis pubes- 

 cent like the twigs : pedicels 3—5 mm. long : calyx glabrous ; 

 longer sepals orbicular-ovate : corolla white, 6—8 mm. long : cap- 

 sule 5.5 mm. broad, 4 mm. high. 



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