ICONES PLANTARUM. 33 
culato-venulosa, glabra vy. subtus minute pubescentia, fe 6 poll. v. maxima 
usque ad 10 poll. longa. Pedunculi in axillis superioribus breves, sepius 3- 
flori, rarius 1- v.5-flor. Calycis tubus adnatus, breviter winanea lobi 5, 
lati, ineequales, Pefala diu in globum conniventia, rarius patentia, orbicularia. 
Stamina pluriseriata, petala haud superantia. Ovarium inferum, a 
unicum reductum, ovulis 2-seriatim superpositis serie bus septo spurio (pla- 
singula separantibus ; stylus brevis, stigmate peltato. uctus carnosus, in- 
dehiscens, seepius cylindraceus, siccitate aibtetdvuek 14 poll. longus, 
seminibus simplici serie suprapositis, rarius latior seminibus 2-seriatis, Se- 
mina crassa, compressa, horizontalia, testa duriuscula. Embry y curvatus, 
radicula crassa carnosa, cotyledonibus brevissimis involutis.—G. BentHam. 
Fig. 1. Flow 2. Stamen. 3. Calyx and meee 4. far’ é vertical section. 5. The 
same, boron seat on. 6. Portion of the frui ™ Seed. 8. The same, horizontal sec- 
tion. 9, Embr 10, The same, horizontal Pi 
Puate 1044. 
LEITNERIA FLORIDANA, Chapm. 
Myricacea ? 
L. floridana, Chapman, Flora of Southern United States, 427. 
Has. — Apalachicola, in salt-marshes. 
Frutex 2-~6-pe Ramuli crassiusculi, teretes, innovationes piloso- 
phew eine e glabri, leeves v. lenticellati. Fo/ia decidua, membranacea, 
alterna, eglandulosa, longiuscule petiolata, ovalia v. oblongo-elliptica, obtusa v. 
obtusiuscula ‘basi an angustata, in ntegra , penn nivenia, supra sublucida, costa ner- 
labr i idi 
axillis foliorum delapsorum subsessilia enta Geetuscals, oylindraces, 
ubmembranaceee, oratoran sce ze, acute v. acu- 
minate, extus laxe sericeo-pilose, intus glabre a 8-10, li hiceas v. 
mentis basi ad squamam breviter adnatis; Saanans su caeatate, nuda; antheree 
— mantions, biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes, basi i affixee. 
Fi. menta brevia, 3} poll. longa; squame inferiores vacue, late ovate, 
obtuse, imbricatz, superiores floriferse sericeo-pilose. Ovarium sursum 
pilosum squamam subzequans, basi squamulis minutis 2-4 inzequalibus seepius 
fimbriatim seen or circumdatum, 1-loculare, 1-ovulatum. cras- 
siusculus, ovario 2~3-plo longior, faleato-ineurvus, unilateraliter canaliculatus 
et i 5 deciduus. Ovu/wm lateraliter affixum, micropyle supera. 
Fructus drupaceus, exsuccus, ovali-oblongus, } poll. longus, epicarpio tenui, 
endocarpio crustaceo. Semen ovale, compressum, albuminosum ; testa papy- 
