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Kyf Jamaica is Aphyllous and perhaps not of this 

 Genus ; the other is V. huxifoUum I of Smith 

 with leaves ovate obtuse trinerve, and berries 

 safron color. Yet our American Botanists per- 

 sist to this day to call 2 or 3 of our species by 

 that name ! others unite our sp, to the V. fla- 

 vens of Schwartz and Jamaica with ovate ve- 

 nose leaves and yellow berries! none of our sp. 

 have ovate leaves, they are obovate ! Such are 

 the blunders of our best Botanists, and yet they 

 pretend that our Botany is well known and our 

 shrubs &.C properly named . . ! 



537. DiosPYRos ciLiATA Raf. Branches di- 

 varicate pubescent, leaves ovate and obovate or 

 elliptic shortly acummate, smooth above, pu- 

 bescent beneath when young, margin ciliated, 

 Bowers axillary, solitary or geminate subsessile 

 — Florida, seen alive in gardens, only a shrub 

 5 to 6 feet high, much spreading, branches te- 

 rete ash color, leaves very unequal and various 

 on the same branch, 1 to 3 inches long, smooth 

 beneath when old, but always ciliate, petioles 

 short, peduncles still shorter, calyx flat 4lobed 

 corolla ovate urceolate end 4iobe, lobes broad 

 short, stamens 8 to 12, anthers just protruding. 



538. Cephalanthus obtusifolia Raf. bran- 

 ches nearly hexagone, leaves ternate petiolatc 

 ovate elliptic obtuse not acuminate, base subo- 

 bliquate, beneath smooth yellow glaucous,nerves 

 subpubescent — ^sent me from Missouri, also 

 seen in West Kentucky : differs from both C 

 puhescens and C. acuminatus or occidentalis. 

 The peduncles of heads has verticillated scales 

 the corolla is slender equal to stamens, but the 

 style is twice as long ; flowers estival white and 

 fragrant. It forms a shrub 5 to 6 feet high 

 growing as the others near streams, 



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