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mens 2, exserted : anther cells separate. Fertile flower solitary at the base of 

 the spike. Calyx 3-pai-ted, mauy-bracted. Ovary sessile, 6- 7-celled. Style 

 short and thick : stigmas 6-7, acute, spreading. Fruit fleshy, of few woody 

 1-seeded indehiscent carpels. — A small tree, with milky poisonous juice, and 

 short and thick branches. Leaves alternate, stipulate, petioled, ovate, serru- 

 late, acute or acuminate, smooth, approximate at the summit of the branches. 

 Petioles biglandular at the apex. Spikes greenish. 



1. H. Mancinella, L. — South Florida. — Branches roughened with 

 the scars of the deciduous leaves. Leaves l'-2' long. Spikes 2' long, ter- 

 minal, solitary. Clusters of flowers with a gland-like bract on each side. 

 Fruit resembles an apple. 



3. SEBASTIANIA, MuUer. 

 Flowers monoecious, in bracted spikes, the lowest pistillate and fertile. 

 Calyx 3-toothed or lobed. Stamens 3, free or united below. Styles 3, dis- 

 tinct. Capsule dry, enclosing a central column. Seed carunculate. — Trees 

 or shrubs. Leaves alternate, stipulate. 



1. S. ligUStrina, Miill. Slirubby; branches alternate, slender; leaves 

 petioled, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-ovate, mostly obtuse, narrowed at the base, 

 entire ; stipules ovate ; spikes short, often by pairs, shorter than the leaves, 

 lateral and terminal; stamens 3; capsule and oval seed smooth. — River 

 swamps, Florida to North Carolina, and westward. May -August. — Shrub 

 6° - 1 2° high. Branches spreading. Leaves 1' - 3' long. 



2. S. lucida, Miill. Smooth; leaves coriaceous, petioled, obovate or 

 oblong, obtuse or emarginate, crenate ; fertile flowers solitary or by pairs, 

 long-peduncled, nodding ; capsule round-angled, smooth, like the ovoid seed. 

 — South Florida. — Tree 30° - 40° high. Leaves V-li' long. 



4. STILLINGIA, Card. 



Bracts with a fleshy gland on each side. Styles monadelphous near the 

 base. Receptacle without a central column, strongly 3-horned. Seeds carun- 

 culate. — Shrubs. 



1. S. sylvatica, L. (Queen's Delight.) Herbaceous; stems clus- 

 tered, erect or ascending from a thick woody root, umbellately branched; 

 leaves somewhat crowded, nearly sessile, thickish, varying from linear-lance- 

 olate to obovate, obtuse or acute, crenate-serrulate ; spikes yellowish, terminal, 

 and in the forks of the stem, longer than the leaves ; glands cup-shaped ; sta- 

 mens 2 ; capsule roughish ; seed globose. — Light dry soil, Florida to North 

 Carolina, and westward. April-Sept. — Stems l°-3° high. Leaves r-2' 

 long. Spikes 2' -3' long. 



2. S. aquatica, Chapm. Shrubby; stem single, erect from a fibrous 

 spongy root, umbellately or alternately branched above, thickened near the 

 base ; leaves lanceolate, mostly acute, tapering at each end, short-petioled, 

 sharply serrulate, the uppermost yellowish ; stipules bristly ; spikes mostly 

 shorter than the leaves, terminal and in the forks of the stem ; glands peltate ; 

 stamens 2 ; capsule smooth ; seeds globose, pitted, silvery-coated. — Pine bar- 

 ren ponds, Florida to South Carolina. May -Sept. — Stem 3° -6° high. 

 Leaves 2' - 4' long. 



