﻿608 Small : Botany of Southeastern United States 



ovate or oval-ovate except those accompanying the peduncles, 3-5 

 cm. long, tipped with an abrupt slightly twisted point, dark green 

 above, pale and minutely pubescent on the nerves and veins be- 

 neath, prominently 3 -nerved and usually with 2 more indistinct 

 nerves, truncate or subcordate at the base ; blades of leaves ac- 

 companying the peduncles lanceolate, acuminate : petioles slender, 

 one third to one half as long as the blades : tendrils filiform, devel- 

 oped at the majority of the nodes : peduncles stout, twice or thrice 

 as long as the leaves : pedicels (pistillate) 20-25, 8—10 mm. long, 

 slightly thickened upward : berries subglobose, about 5 mm. in di- 

 ameter. 



In river swamps, Georgia. Spring. 



During the spring of 1895, I discovered a curious species of 

 Smilax growing in the river swamps of southwestern Georgia, es- 

 pecially in the swamps along the Flint river. It is related to 

 Smilax licrbacea, but it is more slender and delicate. The leaves are 

 characteristic, the blades are much smaller and more rounded ex- 

 cept those accompanying the peduncles ; these are wholly different 

 in shape from the other leaf-blades, being lanceolate or narrowly 

 lanceolate. The peduncles are conspicuously elongated and fully 

 twice as long as the accompanying leaves. The original speci- 

 mens were collected by the writer along the Flint river near Al- 

 bany, Georgia, May 24-28, 1895. 



Smilax renifolia. 



Perennial, shrubby, glabrous. Rootstocks not seen : stems 

 elongated, climbing high over shrubs and trees, more or less dis- 

 tinctly angled : leaves numerous ; blades reniform or deltoid-reni- 

 form, 3-7 cm. long, resembling those of Celtis, rounded and 

 mucronate at the apex, entire, mostly broader than long, sub- 

 cordate at the base : petioles 5-10 mm. long; stipular sheath fully 

 half as long as the petioles, usually furnished with tendrils : pe- 

 duncles of pistillate plants 10-20 mm. long, flattened, much longer 

 than the petioles : pedicels 16-25, 2 ~3 mm - long: perianth green- 

 ish ; segments linear or linear-oblong, 2 mm. long, acutish : berries 

 black, subglobose. 



Along streams, Texas. Spring. 



This Texan Smilax is remarkable for its broad Celtis-Vk& l eat " 

 blades. These alone furnish a ready means of separating it fr orn 

 Smilax rotundifolia with which it has been confused. 



# The specimens from which the above description is taken were 



