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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. Stem 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. Catesbaei, Ell.) 



— Low shady woods in the upper districts, Georgia to North Carolina. April 

 and May. — Stem 1°- U° high. Leaves 4' long. Petals U' - 2' long. 



4. MEDEOLA, Gronov. 



Flowers perfect. Leaves of the perianth 6, similar, deciduous. Stamens 6, 

 erect, hypogy nous : anthers linear-oblong, fi.xed near the base, introrse. Ovary 

 globose, 3-celled, with six anatropous ovules in each cell. Styles 3, slender, 

 recurved, stigmatic within. Berry globose. 



1 M. Virginica, L. Rhizoma horizontal, tuberous ; stem simple, slen- 

 der, clothed with loose deciduous Avool, bracted below, bearing above the middle 

 a whorl of 6 - 8 oblong-lanceolate acute leaves, and at the summit a smaller 

 whorl of 3-4 ovate leaves, which suiTound the 2-8 small greenish nodding 

 flowers; styles red. — Shady banks, Middle Florida, and northward. June. — 

 Stem 2° high. 



Order 150. ROXBURGHIACEiE. (Roxburghia 

 Family.) 



Herbs or twining shrubs, with petioled parallel-ncrvod 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 pendulous. 

 Embryo minute or slender, in fleshy albumen. 



1. CROOMIA, Torr. 



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 2-lobed. 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 covered 

 by the fibres of the cord. Embryo minute, obovate. — A lew perennial herb, 



