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P©LTANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 



A vine mnning over small slirubs, glabrous. Leaves pinnats, with 5 

 or 4 pair of leaflets. Leaflets ovate, very glabrous, disiincdy veined on 

 both surfaces, rigid, cojiaceous, sometimes obtuse, but sometimes acute and 

 even mucronate. Flowers solitary, terminal, of a dull purple colour, on 

 small branches. Tails of the seed long and conspicuou.dy feathered. 



Grows m the middle and upper districts of Carolina and Georgia. 

 Flowers Maj' to August. 



9. OCHROLEUCA. Hoi't. KcW 



C. erecta, simplex, 

 pubescens; foliis siiii- 

 plicibus, calycibusque 



; pecUmciilo 



termiiiali, solitarib; 

 flore inciinato. 



sericeis 



1 



Erect, simple, pu- 

 bescent; leaves simple 

 ovate, entire, the 

 young leaves and ca- 

 lyx silky; peduncle ter- 

 minal, solitary; flower 

 leaning. 



Sp. Plant. 2. p. 1294. De Candolle 1. p. 159. 

 C. Sericea Mich. 1. p. 319. Pursh. 2. p. 385. 



Root perennial. Ste?n firmly erect, very villous, particularly near the 

 summit. Leaves opposite, large, simple, entire, ovate, rather acute, reti- 

 culately veined, very pubescent, or villous on the under surface, on very 

 short footstalks. Flowers solitary, terminal, yellowish. Seedsliivgey very 

 conspicuously tailed and fealhered- 



Grows in the upper districts of Carolina and Georgia, Mr. Herbcmont; 

 among the Saluda Alountains, Dr. Macbride. 

 Flowers May — July. 



10. OvATA. Pursh. 



M 



C. erecta; foliis o- 



vatis, acutis, glabris, 

 utrinque reticulato ve- 

 nosis, infimis subcor- 



9 



datis 

 flori 



ts; pe< 

 is; ilor 



edunculis uni- 

 ibus erectis; 



Erect, leaves ovate 

 acute, glabrous, reti- 

 culate on both surfa- 

 ces, the lower slightly 



cordate; peduncles 1- 

 flowered; flowers e- 



aristis seminumplum- i rect; tails of the seed 



osis. 



plumose. 



Pursh. 2. p. 7^Q' De Candolle 1. p. 159. 





