﻿Small : Botany of Southeastern United States G09 



collected by Mr. A. A. Heller along Bear Creek, Kerr county, 

 Texas, on April 30, 1894, no. 1679. 



v Smilax cinnamomiifolia. 



Perennial, glabrous. Stems high-climbing, sometimes ic-15 

 meters long, sparingly armed with slender spines, terete or nearly 

 so : leaves alternate ; blades lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, those 

 on vigorous shoots ample, normally 7-10 cm. long, acute or 

 apiculate, entire, glaucous beneath, cuneate to truncate at the base : 

 petioles 5-10 mm. long ; stipular sheath about half as long as the 

 petioles, usually furnished with tendrils : peduncles much longer 

 than the petioles, slender, sometimes 4-5 cm. long at maturity : 

 pedicels 5-10, 6-12 mm. long: perianth greenish; segments 

 linear-oblong or slightly broadened upward, 4 mm. long : anthers 

 mostly longer than the filaments : berries subglobose, about 10 

 mm. in diameter, bluish-black, lustrous under the glaucous coating. 



In woods and rich soil, Alabama and Western Florida to 

 Texas. Spring. 



Smilax cinnamomifolia is a southern, homologue of Smilax 



glauca, which species it resembles in habit. The leaf-blades are 

 narrower, at maturity often resembling those of Smilax lanceolata 

 and suggesting leaves of species of Cinnamomum. The upper sur- 

 face is much more lustrous than that of the leaf-blades of Smilax 

 glauca and the berries conspicuously large, commonly twice the 

 size of those of Smilax glauca. The following specimens belong 



here : 



Arkansas : Spirit Lake, Texarkana, Heller, no. 4109. 

 Alabama : Auburn, Lee County, November, 1895, Underwood. 



Gyrostachys coxstricta. 



Perennial from coarse roots. Stems erect, 3-4 cm. tall, stout, 

 simple : leaves mainly on the lower part o( the stem, these linear 

 or narrowlv linear-spatulate, 1-2 dm. long, acute, narrowed into 

 margined petioles ; those higher up on the stem reduced to sheath- 

 ing scales : spikes 5-1 cm. long, 2-2.5 cm. thick closely flow- 

 ered : bracts lanceolate, as long as the flowers or shorter acumi- 

 nate : lip 7 _io mm. long, nearly as long as the sepals and petals, 

 constricted above the middle tip ; ovate or deltoid-ovate, much 

 shorter than the base; base ovate, with 2 more or less incurved 



basal callosities. 



In marshes, Louisiana. Fall. 



