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genus of his Shrub ; it must be evidently a pe- 

 culiar one near to Nudilus and some Ilexides 

 to be compared, as well as my Genus Nestro- 

 nia 503. 



715. NUDILUS Raf. ft. tex. 1. in Atl. J. 

 176 and Herb. Raf. Dioical, male fl . , . . fern, 

 fl. no calix nor corolla, pistil ovate, a long style, 

 stigma capitate. Drupaceous berry ovate one 

 seeded. Shrubs with opposite or suhalterne 

 leaves, flowers lateral peduncled. This is the 

 only Genus I have been able to examine alive, 

 and I only met the female flowers, which have 

 really no calix as in some Fraxinides, whence 

 the name of Nudilus. I shall now enumerate 

 12 species belonging to those 3 Genera, altho' 

 our botanists have only 3 or 4, Elliot and Eaton 

 only two. 



716. FoRESTiERA LiGUSTRiNA Poirct, AdcHa, 

 Borya, Bigelowia of Authors. Leaves thin sub- 

 petiolate lanceolate oblong entire, fruits ovate 

 — In Illinois and Tennessee, habit of lagustrum, 

 only found by Michaux, not in Elliot nor Ea- 

 ton, not seen by me. 



717. FoRESTiERA DisTiCHA (or hetcrophyla) 

 Raf. Borya distichophyla of Nuttal. Quite 

 smooth, branches divergent subterete levigate 

 grey, leaves distichal subsessile thin entire, mar- 

 gin scabrous, uninerve, the lower ovate, the up- 

 per lanceolate or oblong acute, bud scales acu- 

 minate pungent — found by Nuttall in East 

 Tennessee on the banks of Frenchbroad River. 

 My specimen is from him in Collins Herb. A 

 tall shrub 12 to 16 feet high, leaves small un- 

 cial or less. Flowers and fruits not seen. 



718. FoRESTiERA VERRUCOSA (or glauca) Raf. 

 Branches terete verrucose, leaves petiolate co- 

 riaceous glaucous entire obtuse elliptic or sub- 

 oboval, base acute, fruits fasciculate peduncu- 



