78 MONADELPHIA. PENTANDRIJ. 



upon thecalix. Lepunthium a filamcntose crown, 

 Fepo (Berry L.) pedicellate. 



Generally climbing- shrubs, rarely annual or perennial; 

 leaves alternate and stipulate, simple, entire, 3-lobed or 

 digitate; petiole naked or glandulous, tendrills axillary; 

 peduncles 1 to 3-flovvered, below the calix mos;ly articu- 

 lated, the ariiculation subtended by a 3-leaved or 3-par- 

 ted involucrum, the segments of which are tniire or lare- 

 ly dissected, the same involucrum sometimes minute, !• 

 leaved, or altogether wanting. The calix is properly 

 speaking 10-parted, the 5 internal segments being mere- 

 ly petaloid. 



Species, LP. Intea. '2.incarnata. Fi'om Delaware lo 

 Florida. Fruit edible, subacid and spong} . 



A genus of 53 species, according to Persoon, exclusive- 

 ly indigenous to the American tropics with the sole ei.- 

 ception of the 2 species in this Catalogue. 



470. PHILOXERUS. R. Brown, 



Calix 5-parte(l. Corolla none. Stamina 5^ 

 combined at the base into a small entire cup, 

 shorter than the germ. *^?if/ic?'.s 1 -celled. *S'^/^- 

 mas 2. Utricidus membranaceous, 1-secded, 

 valveless. 



Leaves opposite, spikes terminal, capitate; flowers Ifi- 

 bracteate. 



Species. 1. P. vermicularis. JUecebmin vermicuhitiim- 

 L. Hab. On the sea-coast of Carolina aiid Florida. Ph. 



471. ^OPLOTHECA.f 



Cato double; exterior 2-leaved, scariose, con- 

 volute, truncated and much shorter than the in- 

 terior; interior calix monophyllous, semiquin- 

 quifid and densely tomentose. Corolla none. 

 Lepanthium cjlindric, 5-toothed, staminiferous. 

 Stigma simple, capitate, pubescent. Utriculiis 

 1-seeded, inclosed in the indurated muricate 

 calix. 



t From owAov, armour and •3"»J»'J» a sheath, in allusion to tl]e 

 se^d o/ihis plant being protected in an armed sheath. 



