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upward: stamens 5, exserted. Pistillate flowers solitary or few together, with 5 broad 

 sepala and 5 nearly similar petals: ovary 3-lobed; styles 2-parted. Capsule de- 

 pressed. Differs from Andrachne in the annular disk; the disk in Andrachne is 

 composed of separate glands. 



1. Savia Bahame'nsis Britton. A shrub or small tree, the bark pale gray or 

 whitish: leaf -blades typically obovate, varying to narrowly obovate or oval-obovate, 

 25 cm. long, rounded at the apex, or rarely retuse or acutish, pale green, shining 

 above, glabrous, short-petioled : staminate flowers with orbicular-ovate sepals about 

 2 mm. long and cuneate or flabellate thin petals shorter than the sepals: pistillate 

 flowers with suborbicular sepals and petals about 2 mm. long: capsules spheroidal, 

 5-6 mm. long: seeds 4-5 mm. long. 



In hammocks or palmlands on the lower Florida Keys. Also in the Bahamas. 



Page 692, after Phyllanthus Avicularia, insert: 



la. Phyllanthus platylepis Small. Annual, or perhaps sometimes perennial, 

 bright green and somewhat glaucous, glabrous: stems solitary or sparingly tufted, 

 1.54 dm. tall, often slightly decumbent at the base, simple or sparingly branched, 

 purplish: leaves alternate, 1-2 cm. long; blades obovate to oblong-obovate, obtuse or 

 slightly mucronate, more glaucous beneath than above, very short-petioled: staminate 

 flowers 2-3 mm. wide during anthesis ; sepals obovate, pale-margined ; stamens 2 : 

 pistillate flowers 6-6.5 mm. wide at maturity; sepals very broadly rhombic-obovate, 

 somewhat reflexed, their pedicels 5-6 mm. long at maturity: capsules spheroidal. 

 Differs from P. Avicularia in the leaves which have blades gradually narrowed to the 

 base and relatively long pedicelled flowers and fruits. 



In hammocks, western peninsular Florida. Spring and summer. 



Page 692, after Phyllanthus Carolinensis, insert: 



2a. Phyllanthus saxicola Small. Plants 0.5-3.5 dm. tall, simple or irregularly 

 branched: leaves relatively numerous, erect or nearly so; blades leathery, cuneate, 5-9 

 mm. long, obtuse, entire, bright green, short-petioled: flowers very short -pedicelled : 

 calyx of the pistillate flowers less than 2 mm. wide at maturity; lobes obovate: disk 

 rather angular: capsule spheroidal, barely 2 mm. wide: seeds less than 1 mm. long, 

 nearly as wide as long, papillose. Differs from P. Carolinensis in the small leathery 

 leaves, the smaller calyx with broader lobes and the smaller seeds. 



In hammocks, southern peninsular Florida. Also in the Bahamas. All year. 



Page 693, after Phyllanthus polygonoides, add: 



9. Phyllanthus Epiphyllanthus L. A shrub 1-2 m. tall : flattened branches 

 almost linear, varying to somewhat spatulate or lanceolate, commonly 4-10 cm. long: 

 larger sepals of the staminate flowers 1-1.5 mm. long: capsules 4-5 mm. broad. 

 Differs from the preceding species of Phyllanthus in the leaf -like branches. 



In sandy places, Key West, Florida. Also in the West Indies. 



Page 693, before REVERCHONIA, insert: 



2a. CICCA L. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, borne distichously on numerous slender 

 branchlets thus simulating a pinnate leaf: blades entire. Flowers nearly similar to 

 those of Phyllanthus, but with vertically opening anther-sacs. Fruit baccate. 



1. Cicca disticha L. A shrub or small tree, with spreading or drooping gla- 

 brous branchlets: leaves various, those near the bases of the branchlets with sub- 

 orbicular or orbicular-ovate blades 1.5-3 cm. long, those above them with larger ovate 

 to oblong-ovate blades: larger sepals suborbicular to orbicular-obovate, 1.5-2 mm. 

 long: berries depressed, 1.5-2 cm. broad. 



In pine lands, southern peninsular Florida. Naturalized from the tropics. All year. 

 OTAHEITE GOOSEBERRY. 



2b. BREYNIA Forst. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate: blades broad, entire. Flowers monoecious, 

 solitary in the axils, or the staminate few together. Staminate flowers with a turbi- 

 nate calyx-tube and 6 minute broad lobes surrounding the minute orifice: stamens 



