14 MENISPERMACE.E. (MOOXSEED FAMILY.) 



twice as long as the calyx, purplish brown ; fruit oblong or pear shaped, few- 

 seeded. Dry sandy soil in the lower districts. March. 



3. A. grandiflora, Dunal. Shrub 2 -3 high; leaves obovate, obtuse, 

 rigid, 2' -3' long, densely pubescent, like the branches, when young, at length 

 smooth above ; outer petals 2' long, round-obovate, yellowish, many times 

 longer than the calyx ; fruit small, 1 - few-seeded. Dry sandy soil in the 

 lower districts of Georgia and E. Florida. March -April. 



* * Flowers from the axils of coriaceous leaves. 



4. A. py gmaea, Dunal. Glabrous ; shrub 2 - 3 high ; leaves 2' - 6' long, 

 cuneate-oblong to linear, early deciduous; flowers l'-3' wide, white or pale 

 yellow, the outer petals obloug-obovate ; fruit cylindrical, few-seeded. (A. an- 

 gustifolia, Gray '. ) Sandy pine barrens, Florida, and lower districts of 

 Georgia. May. On young stems the leaves are broader and the flowers 

 larger. 



5. A. Clineata, Shuttl. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, pubescent beneath, 

 3' - 4' long ; flowers 1' wide, the outer petals oblong, three times longer than 

 the calyx, and twice as long as the inner ones. S. Florida (Feay). 



2. ANONA, L. CITSTARD-APPLE. 



Differs from the preceding in its numerous ovaries, with a single erect 

 ovule, forming in fruit a compound many-seeded pulpy berry. Tropical 

 trees or shrubs. 



1. A. laurifolia, Dunal. Glabrous; leaves oblong-ovate, 3' -4' long; 

 flowers 1' wide, whitish; petals thick, the outer ones round-ovate; fruit 

 smooth ; seeds compressed. Wet banks, 8. Florida. A small tree. 



ORDER 4. MENISPERMACEJE. (MOONSEED FAMILY.) 



Climbing woody vines, with alternate exstipulate palmately veined 

 leaves, and small polygamous or dioecious flowers, in axillary or supra- 

 axillary racemes or panicles. Sepals and petals mostly alike, in two 

 or more rows, imbricated in the bud. Stamens 6 or more, hypogy- 

 nous. Anthers 2- or 4-celled. Ovaries 3 - 8, drupaceous in fruit. 

 Seed and embryo curved, the latter large, in thin albumen. 



1. COCCULUS, DC. 



Flowers dioecious" or polygamous. Sepals and petals 6, each in two rows. 

 Stamens 6, the anthers 4-celled. Ovaries 3-6, 1-celled, 1-ovuled. Stigma 

 subulate. Drupe baccate. Nut uniform, rugose. Seed conformed to the 

 cavity of the nut. Embryo semicircular. 



1. C. Carolinus, DC. Pubescent; leaves petioled, ovate or cordate, 

 entire or 3 - 5-lobed, acute or obtuse ; racemes of the fertile flowers simple, 

 of the sterile compound ; flowers white; drupe red. Woods and thickets. 

 June- Julv. 



