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the lanceolate sepals; stigmas short, distinct, exceeding the short erect anthers. 
— Shady woods in the upper districts, Georgia, and northward. April and 
May. — Stem 1°-1}° high. Leaves 2'- 6’ long, and nearly as broad. Petals 
8// — 12” long. 
8. T. stylosum, Nutt. Siem solitary, slender; leaves oval or oblong, 
acute, short-petioled ; peduncle shorter than the large flower; petals rose-color, 
oblong, obtuse or abruptly pointed, wavy, spreading, much longer and broader 
than the lanceolate sepals; stigmas slender, united below the middle, much 
shorter than the long recurved anthers. (T.nervosum, and T. Catesbei, Ell.) 
— Low shady woods in the upper districts, Georgia to North Carolina. April 
and May. — Stem 1°-1}° high. Leaves 4! long. Petals 1}/- 2! long. 
4. MEDEOLA, Gronov. 
Flowers perfect. Leaves of the perianth 6, similar, deciduous. Stamens 6, 
erect, hypogynous: anthers linear-oblong, fixed near the base, introrse. Ovary 
globose, 3-celled, with six anatropous ovules in each cell. Styles 3, slender, 
recurved, stigmatie within. Berry globose. 
1. M. Virginica, L. Rhizoma horizontal, tuberous ; stem simple, slen- 
der, clothed with loose deciduous wool, bracted below, bearing above the middle 
& whorl of 6-8 oblong-lanceolate acute leaves, and at the summit a smaller 
whorl of 3-4 ovate leaves, which surround the 2- .8 small greenish nodding 
flowers ; styles red. — Shady banks Middle Florida, and northward. June. — 
Stem 2° high. 
OnpER 150. ROXBURGHIACE/E.  (RoxBuRGHIA 
FawurLY.) 
Herbs or twining shrubs, with petioled parallel-nerved reticulated 
leaves, and perfect axillary racemose flowers. — Perianth 4-leaved or 
4-parted. Stamens 4, hypogynous: anthers 2-celled, introrse. Ovary 
free, or united with the base of the perianth, 1-celled. Stigma sessile. 
Ovules few or numerous, anatropous. Placenta parietal. Capsule 
2-valved. Seeds fixed to hairy or fibrillous cords, erect or. rcm 
Embryo minute or slender, in fleshy albumen. ; 
L CROOMIA, Tor 
Perianth deeply 4-parted, persistent, the spreading nerveless oval divisions 
imbricated in the bud. Filaments separate, thick, erect, inserted on the base of 
the perianth opposite its lobes: anthers short, oblique, with the connective mi- 
nute or wanting. Ovary globose-ovate, sessile. Stigma 2lobed. Ovules 4-6. 
Fruit follicular, beak-pointed, at length 2-valved. Seeds 1-4, obovate, sus- — 
pended from the apex of the nerve-like, at length free placenta, nearly rered 
EE Embryo minute, obovate.— A. low pe 
