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8. CALLICARPA, L. French Mulberkt. 



Calyx small, cup-shaped, 4-toothed. Corolla funnel-shaped, 4-cleft. Sta- 

 mens 4, equal, exserted. Ovary 4-ceUed. Style slender ; stigma capitate. 

 Drupe baccate, of four separate 1-seeded nutlets. — Shrubs, with a glandular 

 or scurfy mostly stellate pubescence. Leaves opposite, undivided, serrate, 

 petioled. Flowers in axillary forked cymes. 



1. C. Americana, L. Branches and leaves scurfy ; leaves ovate-oblong, 

 acute at each end, crenate-serrate, rough above, hoary beneath, becoming 

 smoothish ; cymes many -flowered, as long as the petioles ; corolla blue ; drupes 

 purple, clustered. — Dry open woods. June -July. — Shrub 3°-8° high. 

 Leaves 4' - 6' long. 



9. AVICENNIA, L. 



Calyx of 5 imbricated concave sepals. Corolla bell-shaped, 5-lobed. Sta- 

 mens 4, equal, exserted : anthers 2-celled. Ovary 2-celled, with two collateral 

 amphitropous suspended ovules in each cell. Style short or none. Capsule 

 ovate, coriaceous, iudehisceut. P^mbryo large, naked, germinating within the 

 capsule. — Low evergreen trees, with extensively creeping roots, forming im- 

 penetrable thickets on the muddy shores of the sea. Leaves opposite, entire, 

 smooth above, hoary and velvety beneath. Flowers in dense heads, ou axil- 

 lary and terminal peduncles. 



1. A. nitida, Jacq. Tomentose throughout, except the upper surface of 

 the rigid oblong obtuse short-petioled leaves ; peduncles three together, ter- 

 minal, shorter than the leaves ; heads oval ; sepals and bracts orbicular ; co- 

 rolla tomentose on both sides ; style ex.serted. — Coast of Florida. Oct. — 

 Branches terete. Leaves 2' -3' long. Peduncles 4-angled. Heads J' long. 

 CoroUa 3" long. 



10. PHRYMA, L. LopsEED. 



Calyx tubular, bilabiate ; the upper lip of 3 bristle-pointed teeth ; the lower 

 shorter, 2-cleft. Corolla bilabiate ; the upper lip notched, the lower longer, 

 3-lobed. Stamens 4, rlidynamous, included. Ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled. Style 

 slender: stigma 2-cleft. Fruit oblong, pointed by the persistent style. — A 

 perennial branching, pubescent herb, with opposite ovate or oblong coarsely 

 serrate long petioled leaves, and small opposite purplish flowers in a slender 

 terminal spike. Fruit reflexed. 



1. P. leptOStachya, L. — Rich shaded soil, chiefly in the upper dis- 

 tricts. July - August. — Stem l°-3° high, tumid above the joints. Leaves 

 3'- 5' long. 



Order 102. LABIATE. (Mint Family.) 



Herbs or shrubs, with opposite 4-angled branches, and oj)posite ex- 

 stipulate leaves. Flowers opposite, solitary, or oftener in close 

 axillary spiked or capitate cymes (whorls). Calyx 3-10-cleft or 

 toothed. Corolla more or less bilabiate, 4 - 5-lobed. Stamens in- 



