ERICACEAE. 269 
ELLIOTTIA. 
(Family Ericaceae). 
Shrubs, glabrescent: deciduous. 
Twigs rather slender, somewhat 
3-sided or becoming terete, with 
firm thin bark: pith rounded ex- 
cept below the nodes, continuous, 
brownish. Buds solitary, sessile, 
somewhat compressed and point- 
ed, small, with about 3 exposed 
seales of which the outer two fall 
readily. Leaf-scars alternate, low, 
shield-shaped: bundle-trace 1: sti- 
pule scars lacking. 
Elliottia, like Gordonia, is one 
of the particularly localized plants 
of the southeastern United States, 
rare in cultivation; and though 
several localities have been found 
for it, it has disappeared from 
each in succession or at any rate 
has eluded subsequent search. An 
interesting note on it is to be 
found in the Journal of the New York Botanical Garden for 
August, 1901. 
Twigs brown, becoming gray: slightly glaucous. E. racemosa. 
