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the lanceolate sepals ; stigmas short, distinct, exceeding the short erect antliers. 



— Shady woods in the apper districts, Georgia, and northward. April and 

 May. — Stem I°- H° 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-jjctioled ; peduncle shorter than the large flower ; petals rosc-color, 

 oblong, obtuse or abniptly pointed, wavy, spreading, much longer and broa(J(T 

 than tlie lanceolate sepals ; stigmas slender, united i)elow 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. A\m\ 

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



4. MEDEOLA, Gronov. 



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

 erect, h^-pogynous : anthers linear-oblong, fixed near the base, introrsc. 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 wool, bracted below, bearing above the middle 

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

 wliorl of 3-4 ovate leaves, which surround the 2-8 small greenish nodding 

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

 Stem 2° high. 



Order loO. ROXBURGIIIACEiE. (Roxburghia 

 Family.) 



Herbs or twining shrubs, with petiolod parallel-norvcd reticulated 

 leaves, and perfect axillary racemose flov/ers. — Perianth 4-leaved or 

 4-parted. Stamens 4, hypogynous : anthers 2-ceIled, introrse. Ovary 

 free, or united with the base of the perianth, 1-celled. Stigma s^sile. 

 Ovules few or numerous, anatropous. Placenta parietal. Capsule 

 2-valved. Seeds fixed to hairy or fibrillous cords, erect or pendulous. 

 Embr) minute or slender, in fleshy albumen. 



1. CROOMIA, Torr. 



Perianth deeply 4-partpd, 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, 



