442 SMILACEAE. 
10. Smilax Walteri Pursh. Walter's 
Greenbrier. (Fig. 1059.) 
Smilax Walleri Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 249. 1814. 
Glabrous, stem angled, prickly below, the 
branches commonly unarmed. Petioles 2//-6/% 
long, stout, angled; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceo- 
late, rarely lobed at the base, cordate or subcor- 
date, obtuse or abruptly acute at the apex, entire, 
5-7-nerved, 2’-5’ long, 10’’-344’ wide; peduncles 
2//-5/’ long, flattened, thickening in age; umbels 
6-15-flowered; pedicels very slender, 2’/-3’’ long; 
berries globose, coral-red (rarely white), 3/’—4/’ in 
diameter, 2-3-seeded, ripening the first year. 
In wet soil, pine barrens of New Jersey to Florida, 
Tennessee and Louisiana. April-June. 
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11. Smilax lanceolata L. Lance-leaved SS 
Greenbrier. (Fig. 1060.) 4 | 
Smilax lanceolata I,. Sp. Pl. 1031. 1753. / OA i] 
Glabrous, stem terete, usually prickly, the G eo, Y 
branches slender, long, slightly angled, mostly un- © 
armed. Petioles 1//-2’’ long; leaves rather thin, 6) Yj ; 
lanceolate, acute or acuminate at the apex, nar- NV 
rowed at the base, entire, shining above, 5-7- SAR: 
nerved, 2’-314’ long, 6/’-20’’ wide; peduncles i YY 
thick, angled, 3//-8’’ long; umbels 8-40-flowered; 
pedicels 2’’-7’’ long; filaments longer than the 
anthers; berries dark red, globose, 2’/-3/’ in diam- 
eter, usually 2-seeded, ripening the first year. 
In thickets, Virginia to Arkansas, Florida and Texas. 
March-Aug. 
Family 22. HAEMODORACEAE R. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. 1: 299. 
1810. 
BLOODWORT FAMILY. 
Perennial herbs with erect stems, narrowly linear leaves, and regular or 
somewhat irregular small perfect flowers in terminal cymose panicles. Perianth 
6-parted or 6-lobed, adnate to the ovary, persistent. Stamens 3, opposite the 
3 inner perianth-segments. Ovary wholly or partly inferior, 3-celled or rarely 
1-celled; ovules usually few in each cavity, half-anatropous; style mostly slen- 
der; stigma small, entire or 3-grooved. Fruit a loculicidally 3-valved capsule. 
Seeds few or rarely numerous; embryo small, in fleshy endosperm. 
About 9 genera and 35 species, mostly natives of South Africa and Australia, a few in tropical 
America; only the following genus in the north temperate zone. 
1. GYROTHECA Salisb. Trans. Hort. Soc. 1: 327. 1812. 
[LACHNANTHES Ell. Bot. S.C. & Ga. 1:47. 1816.] 
A rather stout herb, with a short rootstock, red fibrous roots and equitant leaves, the 
basal ones longer than those of the stem. Flowers numerous, yellowish, small, in a dense 
terminal woolly cymose panicle. Perianth 6-parted to the summit of the ovary, the outer 
segments smaller than the inner. Filaments filiform, longer than the perianth; anthers 
linear-oblong, versatile. Ovary 3-celled; ovules few in each cavity, borne on fleshy pla- 
centae; style very slender, declined. Capsule enclosed by the withering-persistent perianth, 
nearly globular, 3-valved. Seeds about 6 in each cavity, flattened, nearly orbicular, peltate. 
(Greek, referring to the round fruit. ) 
A monotypic genus of southeastern North America and the West Indies. 
