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Var. myrtip'olia, Chapm. With crowded mostly entire mucronate 

 glabrate leaves, frequently only 8 to lo mm. long, and shorter-stalked 

 drupes. — Chapm. Fl. So. States (iS6o), 269; Watson, /. c. 158. /. myrti- 

 Jolia, Walter, /. c. 241 ; Maximowicz, 26. 31 ; T. F. Wood, Bull. Torrey 

 Bet. Club, xi. 136. — North Carolina to Florida, west to Louisiana. 



3. I. Cassine, Walt. — Shrub or occasionally arborescent; twigs and 

 petioles puberulent; leaves half inch to inch and a half long, elliptical or 

 elliptical-oblong, very obtuse, coarsely cienate-serrate, with a deciduous 

 gland or denticle at each sinus; sterile cymes about 8 mm. long, short- 

 peduncled ; fertile, sessile, i- to 3-flowered ; calyx segments rounded, scarce- 

 ly ciliate ; ovary contracted below the stigma ; drupes round, 4 to 6 mm. in 

 diameter, on pedicels of equal length. — I.e. (178S), 241; Watson, 158; 

 Maximowicz, 22; Sargent, 36. — Virginia to Florida and Bermuda, west to 

 Arkansas and Texas. 



An effort to improve on the nomenclature of this species, unless it is 

 called /. Cassine, ft. L. Sp. (1753), 125, would probably cause it to stand 

 as /. Peragua (L.) = Cassine Peragua, L. Mantiss. (1771), ii. 220. 



* * Flowers 4- to 6- merous ; drupe red or purple ; nutleis as in the last; leaves deciduous > 

 — § Prinoides, Gray, /. c. 276. 



■^ Cymes i-flowered, bractless. 



"'"'■ Leaves typically spatulate to obovate, at length firm but not thick, crenate-sernilate. 



4. I. decidua, Walt. — Shrub or small tree Avith glabrous gray twigs; 

 leaves 2 or 3 in. long, glossy above and narrowly grooved along the mid- 

 rib, pubescent below, at least on the midrib; cuneate-obovate or mostly 

 spatulate-oblanceolate. blunt-acuminate to obtuse or emarginate, the low 

 teeth tipped with minute glands ; petiole mostly pubescent; flowers ap- 

 pearing with the leaves ; sterile pedicels 6 to 12 mm. long ; calyx segments 

 broadly triangular, mostly dark-pointed and scarcely ciliate; drupes de- 

 pressed globose, about 6 mm. in diameter, usually with short styles. — /. c. 

 (1788), 241; Watson, 158; Maximowicz, 30; Sargent, 37. — Virginia to 

 Florida, west to Missouri and Texas. 



•'-'■ ■'-'• Leaves ovate to lanceolate, rather thinner except in one variet)', sharply serrate. 



5. I. LoNGiPES, Chapman, ined. — Related to the last; leaves a couple 

 of inches long, elliptical to very broadly lanceolate, sparingly ciliate with 

 short broad hairs, otherwise glabrous; drupes about 8 mm. in diameter, 

 globose, solitary on pedicels about an inch long. — North Carolina {Buck- 

 ley^ to Tennessee (^Gattinger), Alabama {Buckley., Beaumoiii)., and Lou- 

 isiana {Drum7nond) .— Nemopanthes Canadensis, Gattinger, Tennessee 

 Flora, 31. 



6. I. ambigua, Chapm. — Shrub or small tree with mostly glabrous 

 twigs; leaves an inch or two long, slightly glossy, glabrous or with scat- 

 tered hairs on the petiole and upper side, especially along the midrib, 

 ovate or lanceolate, mostly acute or acuminate, the base acute, sparingly 



