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Flowers in wide lax many-flowered corymbs ; anthers 

 red ; fruit on long drooping pedicels, dull scarlet, 



its cavity shallow and narrow C. benigna 



Flowers in compact 6-12-flowered corymbs; anthers 

 light red ; fruit sometimes slightly obovoid, on short 



erect pedicels, its cavity deep and narrow 



C . m e 11 i t a 

 ff Fruit obovoid, dark crimson, lustrous; leaves oblong- 

 ovate, acuminate, yellow-green, flabrous at maturity; 

 anthers dark red C. 1 u m i n o s a 



Coccineae 



Leaves large, thin, oblong, acutely and more or less deeply lobed 

 petioles long; flowers in usually wide many-flowered corymbs 

 stamens 10 or less, or 20; anthers rose color, pink or rarely white 

 fruit short-oblong to obovoid, up to 2 cm in length, flesh succulent, 

 nutlets 3-5, grooved and usually ridged on the back (Flabellatae 

 Sargent in Rhodora 11 1.22 [1901]). 

 * Anthers rose color or pink 

 f Stamens 10 or less 

 I Fruit short-oblong 



Leaves glabrous on the upper surface at maturity 

 - Stamens usually 5 ; fruit on long slender pedicels 

 Calyx-tube glabrous ; leaves ovate to oval, acute ; 



anthers dark red C. holmesiana 



Calyx-tube villose 



Leaves oblong-ovate, acuminate ; calyx-tube 

 densely covered with matted hairs, the lobes 

 long and slender, villose on the inner surface ; 



anthers pink C. acclivis 



Leaves ovate, acute or acuminate ; calyx-tube 

 slightly hairy, the lobes short and broad, glab- 

 rous ; anthers rose color ....C. uticaensis 

 Stamens usually 10; fruit on short stout pedicels 

 Leaves ovate, acute, drooping, conspicuously con- 

 cave ; fruit dark dull red, villose at the ends 



C . p r i n g 1 e i 

 Leaves oval to oblong-ovate ; fruit crimson, lustrous, 



glabrous C.lobulata 



Leaves scabrate on the upper surface at maturity 



