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§ 3. Prinos. — Parts of the flower mosthj 6-9 : nutlets smooth and even 



on the back. 



* Leaves deciduous : drupe red. 



10. I, verticillata, Gray. Leaves (thick) oval, obovate, or wedge- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, rather coarsely serrate, paler and pubescent beneath ; 

 flowers all clustered, 6-parted, on short pedicels ; fruit abundant. — Low 

 ground. April. — A large shrub. Leaves about 2' long. Pedicels shorter 

 than the petioles. 



11. I. lanceolata. Leaves lanceolate, finely and remotely serrate, 

 acute at each end, smooth on both sides, membranaceous ; fertile flowers 

 scattered generally in pairs, 6-parted ; sterile ones clustered, triandrous ; 

 drupes small. (Prinos lanceolatus, Pursh.) — Lower districts of Georgia and 

 South Carolina, Pursh. June. (*) 



* * Leaves smooth, evergreen : drupe black. 



12. I. glabra, Gray. Leaves wedge-oblong or obovate, crenately 2-4- 

 toothed near the apex ; sterile peduncles many-flowered ; the fertile, 1- 

 fiowered ; flowers all 6 - 9-parted. — Low pine barrens. May. — Shrub 2° - 4° 

 high. 



13. I. lucida, Torr. & Gray. Leaves oval or oblong-obovate, entire or 

 with sharp scattered teeth, viscid when young ; peduncles 1 -flowered, the 

 sterile ones mostly clustered, the fertile solitary ; flowers 6 - 9-parted. (Prinos 

 coriaceus. Ell. } — Wet thickets, Florida, Georgia, and westward. May. — 

 Shrub 4° -8° high. 



Order 41. CYRILLACE^E. (Cyrilla Family.) 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate evergreen leaves, without stipules, 

 and perfect white flowers in lateral or terminal racemes. — Calyx of 

 4-5 sepals. Petals 5 - 8, hypogynous, imbricated in the bud. Stamens 

 5 - 10, inserted with the petals : anthers introrse, opening lengthwise. 

 Ovary 2 - 4-celled, with a single suspended ovule in each cell. Stigma 

 entire or 2 - 4-lobed. Fruit 2 - 4-seeded. Embryo straight in the axis 

 of fleshy albumen. Radicle superior. 



1. CYRILLA, Garden. 



Calyx small, 5-sepalous, persistent. Corolla 5-petalous, spreading, decidu- 

 ous. Starriens 5, opposite the sepals, subulate, spreading : anthers oval. Style 

 persistent : stigma 2-lobed. Drupe ovate, 2-celled, 2-seeded ; the pericarp 

 spongy. — A smooth shrub or small tree. Leaves entire. Racemes clustered 

 at the base of the branches of the sea.son, rigid, spreading. Flowers small, 

 on short 2-bracted pedicels. 



1. C. racemiflora, Walt. Leaves oldong or obovateoblong (2' -4' 

 long), on short petioles ; racemes straight, many-flowered ; drupe dry, ovate, 

 tipped with the conspicuous slender style, mostly 1-seeded. — Varies with 

 smaller (I'-l^') oblanceolate and more rigid leaves, and the nearly globuse 



