PpLYANDRIA POLTGYNIA* 43 



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calyce multoties am- I exterior petals obo 

 phoribus. vate, much larger 



I than the calyx. 



DeCand 1. p. 480. 



Anona obovata. Sp. pi. 2, p. 1269. 



Anona grandiflora, I?artram trav. tab. 2. 



Orchidocarpum grandiflorum. Mich. 1. p. 330. 



Porcelia grandiflora. Pursh, 2. p. 383. 



A shrub rarely exceeding 18 or 24 inches in height, sometimes very 

 much branched with creeping? roots. Tlie yoimg leaves, branches, and 

 calyx soft, flexible, tomentose, ferruginous. Flowers few, sciittered alono- 

 the stem on short peduncles, shooting with the young branches from thS 

 bud ol the last year, very large for the size of the plant, the exterior pe- 

 tas obovate or nearly round, the interior smaller, oblong, all yellowish 

 white. The fruit I have not seen. ^j j 



Not found I believe to the North of the Altamaha. Very common in 

 the dry pme barrens between that river and the Satilla. 



flowers March — April. 



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4. Pygm^a. 



A. foliis sublongo 



linearibus,cuneatis,ob 

 tiisis^ coriaceis, ramii 



Leaves long, linear, 

 cuneate, obtuse, cori- 

 aceous and with the 



lisque glabris; petalis branches glab 

 extenoribus calyce exterior petals much 

 multoties majoribus, Iars;er than the 



g,v>. i.itct,n tiic v.ai Y A% 





obovato-oblongis. | obovate, oblong 



De Candolle 1. p. 4/9. 

 Anona pygmaea. Bartram p. 21. Sp. pi. 2. p. 1268. 

 Orchidocarpum pygmeum. Mich. 1. p. g^Q 

 Porcelia pygmaea. Pursh, 2. p, 383. 



^ A small shrub 6-18 inches high. Leaves nearly sessile 4-^ inches 



r?^ T^ T'T' ^-^^iS^J^t^^ perenniaJ? Flatters solitary, axilC, Ke 



r&oSS snSr ''''''' '™' ^^ exterio/ibovate^^^SSg; 



CLEMATIS. Gen. Pl. 



C«/2^a: 0. ^ Petala I Calyx 0. Petals 



Semiiia com- | 4—6. ^Seeds compres 



