ERICACEA, SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 29 
ELLIOTTIA. 
FLowers perfect; calyx 4 or 5-lobed or divided, the lobes imbricated in estiva- 
tion ; petals 8 to 5, slightly imbricated or subvalvate in estivation ; stamens 3 to 10; ovary 
superior, 3 to 5-celled; ovules numerous. Fruit capsular, sessile, or stipitate. Leaves 
alternate, membranaceous, destitute of stipules. 
Elliottia, Elliott, Sk. i. 448 (1817). —Nuttall, Gen. ii. Addi- 
tions. — Endlicher, Gen. 756.— Meisner, Gen. 247. — 
Bentham & Hooker, Gen. ii. 598.— Baillon, Hist. Pl. 
xi. 175. — Drude, Engler & Prantl Pflanzenfam. iv. pt. 
i. 32. 
Tripetaleia, Siebold & Zuccarini, Abhand. Akad. Miinch. 
iii. 731, t. 3, £. 2 (1843).— Drude, Engler & Prantl 
Pflanzenfam. iv. pt. i. 33. 
Glabrous trees or shrubs, with terete or angled branchlets, scaly buds, and fibrous roots. Leaves 
alternate, obovate or elliptical, entire, glandular-apiculate, membranaceous, petiolate, destitute of 
stipules, deciduous. Flowers white or rose-colored, pedicellate, in erect terminal elongated racemose 
panicles; bracts and bractlets minute, caducous, or foliaceous and persistent. Calyx four or five-lobed 
or divided. Petals three to five, linear-oblong, sessile, equal or very unequal, revolute after anthesis. 
Stamens four to ten, hypogynous; filaments flattened; anthers oblong, attached on the back near the 
base, two-celled, the cells free at the apex, opening longitudinally from above downward. Disk thin 
or much thickened. Ovary sessile or stipitate, subglobose, three to five-lobed, concave at the apex; 
style elongated, slender or thickened, curved or declinate, gradually enlarged and club-shaped above; 
stigma three to five-lobed, smaller than the thickened end of the style; ovules numerous in each cell, 
attached on the inner angle of a tumid placenta, ascending, anatropous. Fruit capsular, subglobose, 
depressed at the apex, sessile or stipitate, three to five-lobed, opening septicidally from above downward 
into three to five valves free from the placentiferous axis. Seeds compressed, ovoid, or ellipsoidal ; 
testa cellulose ; embryo minute, clavate, two-lobed, in fleshy albumen.’ 
One, the type of the genus, inhabits the states of 
Georgia and South Carolina, and the others are small shrubs of central and northern Japan? 
Three species of EHlliottia are now known. 
The genus commemorates in its name Stephen Elliott,’ the distinguished author of the Sketch of 
the Botany of South Carolina and Georgia. 
3. Calyx five-parted, the divisions linear-oblong, longer than 
the fruit. Petals three to five. 
Ovary sessile. 
teata.) 
2 Maximowicz, Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Pétersbourg, xi. 433 (Mél. 
1 The three species of Elliottia were arranged by Bentham & 
Stamens as many as the petals. 
(Elliottia brac- 
Hooker in three sections : — 
Sta- 
Bracts and 
1. Calyx four-toothed, short, cup-shaped. Petals four. Bracts foliaceous, persistent. 
_ mens twice as many as the petals. Ovary sessile. 
bractlets minute, caducous. (Eiliottia racemosa.) 
2. Calyx five-lobed, short, cup-shaped. Petals three to five. 
Stamens three to six. Ovary stipitate. Bracts linear. (Elliottia 
paniculata.) 
Biol. vi. 206); xvi. 401; xviii. 52 (Mel. Biol. viii. 621) (Tripe- 
taleia). — Franchet & Savatier, Enum. Pl. Jap. i. 294. 
8 See xi. 159. 
