Canotia. SIMARUBACEiE. 379 



and bark very bitter. — Ann. Mus. Par. vii. 78, t. 5 ; Planch. Loncl. Jour. Bot. 

 V. 567; Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 153, t. 158. 



C. Nicholsoni, Hook. A rigid and very spiny low shrub, tomentulose-canescent, except 

 the upper face of the leaves : these lauce-liuear to obloug-spatulate, from retuse to mucro- 

 nate or apiculate, very coriaceous, veiuless above, obscurely transversely veined beneath 

 quarter to half inch long, with mostly revolute margins : flowers saffron-colored, very short- 

 pedicelled : drupes red, a quarter or third inch long. — Bot. Misc. i. 271, t. 55; Torr. & 

 Gray, Fl. i. 680; Planch. 1. c. 566 ; Gray, 1. c. C. erecta, Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 140, in part, not 

 Turp., which is green and glabrous. — Coast of Texas.i (Antigua, Mex., &c.) 



5. HOLACANTHA, Gray. ("OXos, complete, aKavOa, thorn, the naked 

 branches all thorn-like.) — PI. Thurb. 310; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 45, t. 8 ; 

 Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 310. — Single species. 



H. Bmoryi, Gray, 1. c. Rigid shrub, 5 to 10 feet high, with bitter wood, the young parts 

 cauescently pubescent, much branched, the terete long and naked branchlets tapering into 

 spines : leaves in seedlings alternate, lanceolate or linear, half inch long, thickish, entire or 

 repand or with a pair of basal lobes (a small spine in most axils) ; in grown plants mostly 

 reduced to small ovate or subulate green scales, and these deciduous : flowers glomerate on 

 spinescent branchlets, subsessile, cauescent outside, white within : drupes soon dry and nut- 

 like, quarter inch long. — Arid plains of S. Arizona; first coll. by Emory, and figured 

 without name by Eugelmaun (Emory, Rep. 158, no. 14). 



6. PICRAMNIA, Swartz. (UiKpos, bitter, Odfjivos, shrub.) — Tropical 



American shrubs with bitter wood, alternate imparipinnate leaves, and small 



greenish flowers more or less glomerate in long and slender pendulous spikes or 



racemes. — Prodr. Veg. Ind. 27, & Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 217, t. 4; Benth. & Hook. 



Gen. i. 315. 



P. pentandra, Swartz. Leaflets 5 to 9, ovate-oblong, acuminate, glabrous, shining above : 

 petals and stamens 5: stigmas 2, sessile, diverging: berries rounded at both ends, reddish, 

 turning black. — Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 220, t. 4 ; A. Rich. Fl. Cub. 379; Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 140. 

 — Forests of S. Florida, Garber, Curtiss. 



7. KCEBERLINIA, Zucc. (C. L. Koeherlin, a German amateur bota- 

 nist.)— Zucc. Abh. Akad. Mlmchen, i. 358, & Flora, 1832, pt. 2, Beibl. 74; 

 Gray, PI. Wright, i. 30. — Single species. 



K. spinosa, Zucc. 11. cc. Leafless shrub or small tree : branches slender and green- 

 barked, rigid but rusli-like, spine-tipped, either alternate or opposite, and subtended by 

 minute and subulate glabrous scales : flowers small, in umbelliform lateral fascicles, white or 

 whitish : berries red, not over three lines in diameter, soon dry. — Benth. PI. Hartw. 35 ; Torr. 

 Bot. Mex. Bound. 42.2 — §_ Texas, on and near the Rio Grande, to S. Arizona. (Mex.) 



8. CANOTI A, Torr. (Native Mexican name.) — Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 68 ; 



Gray, Bot. Ives Rep. 15, & Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 159; Brew. & Wats. Bot. 



Calif, i. 190; Rothrock in Wheeler, Rep. vi. 81, t. 1.^— Single species. 



C. holacantha, Torr. 1. c. A glabrous and green-branched shrub or low tree (sometimes 

 20 to 30 feet high with trunk at base a foot in diameter) : branches slender, rush-like, 

 mostly spiny-tipped, not very rigid : wood and bark not bitter : leaves so far as known 

 reduced to minute alternate scales, and these deciduous : flowers in small fascicles or pani- 

 cles, globular in the bud : petals greenish white, 2 lines long: fruit an inch long. — Plains, 

 hillsides, and canons of Arizona; * first coll. by Emory, then in fruit by Bigelow, in flower by 

 Palmer, Rothrock, and Pringle. 



1 Ascending the Rio Grande as far as Eagle Pass, ace. to Coulter, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. ii. 55. 



2 Add Sargent, Silv. i. 93, t. 40. 



3 Add Sargent, 1. c. 87, t. 37. 



4 Also on the Providence Mts., S. E. California, Cooper, ace. to Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 190. 



