Sagerefia. RHAMNACEiE. 405 



Fl. i. 260, 685 ; Loudon, Arb. ii. 528, f. 196; Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 174, t. 165 ; Trelease, 1. c. 

 363. B. scandens, Trelease, 1. c. 364 ; Britten, Mem. Torr. Club, v. 220 ; Weberbauer, 1. c. 

 406, f. 199 D-G. Rha7nnus scandens, Hill, Hort. Kew. 453, t. 20, & Veg. Syst. xiv. 64, t. 17. 

 R. volubiUs, L. f. Suppl. 152 ; Jacq. Ic. Ear. ii. 12, t. 336; L'Her. Sert. Angl. 5. Zizi/phus 

 volubilis, Willd. Spec. i. 1102. — Virginia to Central Texas and Florida. 



5. KARWfNSKIA, Zucc. (Named in honor of Baron Karwinshy, a 

 Bavarian traveller.) — Shrubs or small trees with spineless branches, mostly sub- 

 opposite entire pinnately veined black-punctate ample rather thin leaves with 

 minute stipules, and flowers in short-peduncled axillary clusters. — Abh. Akad. 

 Munchen, i. 349 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 377 ; Baill. Hist. PI. vi. 75 ; Trelease, 

 Trans. St. Louis Acad. v. 360, 364; Weberbauer in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflan- 

 zenf. iii. Ab. 5, 405. — Of the Mexican region. 



K. Humboldtiana, Zucc. 1. c. 353. Shrub or small tree: twigs glabrescent : leaves 

 nearly as in Berchemia, elliptic-ovate, rounded or subcordate at base, obtuse, mucronate or 

 long-acute, entire or undulate, mostly glabrous, slightly paler and witli some small black 

 glandular dots beneath, 1 to 3 inches long, their slender petioles usually about one third as 

 long, but sometimes greatly reduced : peduncle a line long or less, few-flowered ; pedicels of 

 equal leugth, both elongating in fruit : drupe ovoid, apiculate, 6 lines long ; style articulated 

 near the top. — Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i 100; Trelease, 1. c. 364. K. glandulosa, Zucc. 

 1. c. 351, t. 16, & Flora, xv. pt. 2, Beibl. 71. K. affinis, Schlecht. Linnsea, xv. 460. K. bini- 

 flora, Schlecht. 1. c. Rhamnus umbellatus, Cav. Ic. vi. 2, t. 504. R. Humboldtianus, Rcem. & 

 Schult. Syst. V. 295; HBK. Nov. Gen. & Spec. vii. 52, t. 618. — Southwestern border of 

 Texas. (Mex., Lower Calif.) 



6. REYNOSIA, Griseb. (Named for Dr. Alvaro Reynoso, a Cuban 

 chemist of the middle of the present century.) — Shrubs or small trees with thorn- 

 less twigs, mostly opposite coriaceous entire pinnately veined medium-sized ever- 

 green leaves with minute stipules, and sessile axillary umbels. — Cat. PI. Cub. 

 33 ; Eggers, Vidensk. Meddel. 1877, 173 ; Trelease, Trans. St. Louis Acad. 

 v. 360, 364; Sargent, Silv. ii. 19; Weberbauer in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflan- 

 zenf. iii. Ab. 5, 405. — Of the West Indian region. 



R. latifolia, Griseb. 1. c. 34. Small tree, glabrous or the twigs at first slightly puberulent : 

 leaves broadly elliptical, spatulate-oblong, or obovate, rounded at both ends, eniarginate and 

 commonly mucronate, entire, slightly revolute, very thick, often paler or reddish beneath 

 and with a thick midrib, finely reticulate, 6 to 18 lines long, on short thick petioles: flowers 

 appearing with the new leaves : pedicels from 2 becoming 4 lines long : fruit ellipsoidal, 6 

 lines long, short-beaked. — Eggers, Vidensk. Meddel. 1877, 173, t. 2, & Bull. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. no. 13, 40; Gray, Bot. Gaz. iv. 208; Chapm. Fl. ed. 2, 612; Trelease, 1. c. 364; 

 Sargent, Silv. ii. 21, t. 56, & Gard. & For. iv. 15. — Miami and the Keys of Florida. (Baha- 

 mas, W. Ind.) 



7. SAG-ERllETIA, Brongn. (Named for Augusti?i Sageret, a French 

 horticulturist and vegetable physiologist.) — Trailing, scrambling, or spreading 

 shrubs with spiny divaricate twigs, mostly obliquely opposite often serrulate pin- 

 nately veined glossy leaves of medium size with minute stipules, and nearly 

 sessile flowers forming interrupted axillary spikes often aggregated into rigid 

 compound clusters at ends of the branches. — M^m. Rhamn. 52, & Ann. 

 Sci. Nat. X. 359; Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 175; Benth. «fe Hook. Gen. i. 379; 

 Baill. Hist. PI. vi. 79 ; Trelease, Trans. St. Louis Acad. v. 361, 367 ; 

 Weberbauer hi Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. iii. Ab. 5, 408. — Mostly of 

 the Asiatic region. 



