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mens 2, exserted : anther cells separate. Fertile flower solitary at the base of 

 the spike. Calyx 3-parted, mauy-bracted. Ovary sessile, 6 - 7 -celled. Style 

 short aud thick : stigmas 6-7, acute, spreading. Fruit fleshy, of few woody 

 1-seeded indehiscent carpels. A small tree, with milky poisonous juice, and 

 short and thick branches. Leaves alternate, stipulate, petioled, ovate, serru- 

 late, acute or acuminate, smooth, approximate at the summit of the branches. 

 1'etioles biglandular at the apex. Spikes greenish. 



1. H. Mancinella, L. South Florida. Branches roughened with 

 the scars of the deciduous leaves. Leaves l'-2' long. Spikes 2' long, ter- 

 minal, solitary. Clusters of flowers with a gland-like bract on each side. 

 Fruit resembles an apple. 



3. SEBASTIAN! A, Miiller. 



Flowers monrecious, in bracted spikes, the lowest pistillate and fertile. 

 Calyx 3-toothed or lobed. Stamens 3, free or united below. Styles 3, dis- 

 tinct. Capsule dry, enclosing a central column. Seed carunculate. Treis 

 or shrubs. Leaves alternate, stipulate. 



1. S. ligUStrina, Miill. Shrubby; branches alternate, slender; leaves 

 petioled, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-ovate, mostly obtuse, narrowed at the base, 

 entire ; stipules ovate ; spikes short, often by pairs, shorter than the leaves, 

 lateral and terminal; stamens 3; capsule arid oval seed smooth. River 

 swamps, Florida to North Carolina, and westward. May- August. Shrub 

 6 -12 high. Branches spreading. Leaves 1'- 3' long. 



2. S. lucida, Miill. Smooth; leaves coriaceous, petioled, obovate or 

 oblong, obtuse or emargiuate, creiiate ; fertile flowers solitary or by pairs, 

 long-peduncled, nodding ; capsule round-angled, smooth, like the ovoid seed. 

 South Florida. Tree 30 - 40 high. Leaves 1' - 1' long. 



4. STILLINGIA, Gard. 



Bracts with a fleshy gland on each side. Styles monadelphous near the 

 base. Receptacle without a central column, strongly 3-horned. Seeds carun- 

 culate. Shrubs. 



1. S. sylvatica, L. (QUEEN'S DELIGHT.) Herbaceous; stems clus- 

 tered, erect or ascending from a thick woody root, umbellately branched ; 

 leaves somewhat crowded, nearly sessile, thickish, varying from linear-lance- 

 olate to obovate, obtuse or acute, crenate-serrulate ; spikes yellowish, terminal, 

 and in the forks of the stem, longer than the leaves ; glands cup-shaped ; sta- 

 mens 2 ; capsule roughish ; seed globose. Light dry soil, Florida to North 

 Carolina, and westward. April-Sept. Stems l-3 high. Leaves l'-2' 

 long. Spikes 2' -3' long. 



2. S. aquatica, Chapm. Shrubby ; stem single, erect from a fibrous 

 spongy root, umbellately or alternately branched above, thickened near the 

 base ; leaves lanceolate, mostly acute, tapering at each end, short-petioled, 

 sharply serrulate, the uppermost yellowish ; stipules bristly ; spikes mostly 

 shorter than the leaves, terminal and in the forks of the stem ; glands peltate ; 

 stamens 2 ; capsule smooth; seeds globose, pitted, silvery-coated. Pine bar- 

 ren ponds, Florida to South Carolina. May -Sept. Stem 3-6 high. 

 Leaves 2' - 4' long. 



