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of Jamaica is aphyllous and perhaps not of this 

 Genus ; the other is V. buxifolium ? of Smith 

 with leaves ovate obtuse trinerve, and berries 

 safron color. Yet our American Botanists per- 

 sist to this day to call 2 or 3 of our species by 

 that name ! others unite our sp. to the V. fla- 

 tens of Schwartz and Jamaica with ovate ve- 

 nose leaves and yellow berries! none of our sp. 

 have ovate leaves, they are obovate ! Such are 

 the blunders of our best Botanists, and yet they 

 pretend that our Botany is well known and our 

 shrubs &c properly named , . ! 



537. DIOSPYROS CILIATA Raf. Branches di- 

 varicate pubescent, leaves ovate and obovate or 

 elliptic shortly acuminate, smooth above, pu- 

 bescent beneath when young, margin ciliated, 

 flowers axillary, solitary or geminate subsessile 

 Florida, seen alive in gardens, only a shrub 

 5 to 6 feet high, much spreading, branches te- 

 rete ash color, leaves very unequal and various 

 on the same branch, 1 to 3 inches long, smooth 

 beneath when old, but always ciliate, petioles 

 short, peduncles still shorter, calyx flat 41obed 

 corolla ovate urceolate end 4lobe, lobes broad 

 short, stamens 8 to 12, anthers just protruding. 



538. CEPHALANTHUS OBTUSIFOLIA Raf. bran- 

 ches nearly hexagone, leaves ternate petiolate 

 ovate elliptic obtuse not acuminate, base subo- 

 bliquate, beneath smooth yellow glaucous,nerves 

 subpubescent sent me from Missouri, also 

 seen in West Kentucky : differs from both C. 

 pubescens and C. acuminatus or occidentalis. 

 The peduncles of heads has verticillated scales 

 the corolla is slender equal to stamens, but the 

 style is twice as long ; flowers estival white and 

 fragrant. It forms a shrub 5 to 6 feet high 

 growing as the others near streams. 



