410 EMPETRACEH. (CROWBERRY FAMILY.) 
2. P. Niruri, L. Annual? branches short, very slender, recurved ; leaves — 
crowded, oval (2" —4" long); calyx 5-parted ; seed white, smooth, 6-furrowed i 
on the back and 3-furrowed on the sides ; otherwise mostly like No. 1.— South ^ — 
Florida. — Stem 6/ high. idis 
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13. PACHYSANDRA, Michx. 
Flowers monccious, apetalous, spiked. Calyx bract-like, 4-parted. Sterile 
flowers numerous. Stamens 4, with club-shaped exserted filaments. Fertile - 
flowers few, at the base of the sterile spike. Ovary 3-celled, with two ovules in _ 
each cell. Styles 3, thick, recurved. Capsule of three 1-celled, 2-seeded, 2-valved | 
carpels.— A pubescent creeping perennial herb, with erect simple branches, 
bearing at the summit several large ovate toothed alternate abruptly long-peti- Set 
oled leaves, and near the base several thick bracted spikes. 
1. P. procumbens, Michx. — West Florida, and westward, in rich shady 7 ; 
woods. Feb. and March. — Flowering stems 19 high, Leaves 3/~4/ long, often 
discolored. Flowers odorous. i 
14. DRYPETES, Vahl. 
Flowers diccious, apetalous, in axillary clusters. Calyx 4-6-parted, lined 
in the centre with a wavy-lobed disk. Stamens 4-10, inserted under the disk : 
anther-cells distinct. Ovary resting upon the disk, 2-celled, the cells 2-ovuled. 
Styles 2, short, spreading. Fruit drupaceous, 1 — 2-celled, 1 —2-seeded. — Trop- 
ical trees or shrubs, with alternate coriaceous entire smooth petioled leaves, and 
minute many-bracted flowers. 
1. D. erocea, Poit. Branches smooth ; leaves oblong, acute at each end, 
somewhat coriaceous, finely veined ; clusters many-flowered, shorter than pot 
petioles ; calyx 4-parted, and like the ovary and slightly 4-angled 1-seeded drupé, - 
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tomentose ; stamens 4, exserted ; styles thick, obtuse. South Florida. — À small ; 
tree. Leaves 3'—- 4' long, smooth and shining. Flowers greenish-white. 
2. D. glauca, Vahl. Branches whitish, warty ; leaves glaucous, obl "5 e 
obtuse or gland-pointed, coriaceous ; clusters few-flowered, as long as the gi a 
oles; calyx 5-parted; stamens 10; drupes oval, tomentose. — South F dd 
Dr. Blodgett. — Leaves 2! — 8! long. 
Evrnorsra LaTHYRUS and MARGINATA, Dr. Curtis informs me, Are m 
uralized in North Carolina, and Mercuriatis ANNUA is spontaneous E 
Charleston. gs ; 
mens 2 — 3, alternate with the petals, exserted : ! Ts 
