PENTANDRTA TRICYNIA. 



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Arborescent- Brandies and petioles verj villous. Flawer$ dioiu 

 COU8. Fruit-bearing panicle crowded. Fruit purple, covered with ft 

 velvet-like down. Mich. 



I have not seen this species in GaroUna j it is inserted on the 



-thority of Walter. 



Flowers July — August. 



S. Glabrum. 



R. foliis pinnatis, Ian- I Leaves pinnate, lance- 

 ceolatis, serratis, utrinque | okte, serrate, glabrous 

 nudis ; floribus omnibus 

 fertilibus. 

 1478. 



Walt. n. 2.5. 



Sp. pi. 1. p 



on botli surfaces j flower^^ 

 all fertile. 



alt. p. 255. Mich. 1. p. 183. Pursh, l.p. 204. 



A shrub from 6—10 feethigh ; branches and stem glabrous,generallj 

 tinged with purple. Leaves pinnate, 7—8 pair ; leaflets sessile, lai>» 

 ceolate, acuminate, strongly dentate, glaucous on tlie under surface, 

 slightly cordate. Panicle large, diffuse. Flowers all fertile. 



Grows in the u.oper country of Carolina and Georgia. I have seea 

 it eight miles below Augusta, and around Columbia, S. C. It rarely 

 •descends lower. 



Flowers July 



■August. 



' 3. Elegaks. 



R. foliis pinnatis, lan- 

 ceolatis, serratis, utrin- 

 que nudis ; floribus dioi- 

 cis. 



Leaves pinnate, lance- 

 olate, serrate, glabrous on 

 both surfaces ; flowers 



Sp. pi. l.p. 1478. I dioicous. 



With ^tliis species I am unacquainted ; it is not distinguished in 



the Species Plantarum or Hortus Kewcnsis by any character but its 



dioicous flowers from the R. glabrum, of which Pursh considers it i 

 variety. 



Grows in the upper districts of Carolina, 

 Flowers 



4?. PUMILUM. 



R. humilej ramis pe- I Plant humble ; branches 

 tiolisque pubescentibus ; and petioles pubescent ; 



follolis ovalibus, inciso- 

 dentatis, subtus tonien- 



leaflets 



oval, 



sharply 



I toothed, tomentose un- 

 derneath ; fruit wkh a 

 silky down. 



Pursh, 1, p. 204. 



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