34 MALACEAE. 



XIII. LEPIDAE. 



Fruit globose at maturity. 



Inflorescence tomentose : leaf-blades abruptly contracted 



below. 44. C. lepida. 



Inflorescence glabrous : leaf-blades cuneate or spatulate. 45. C. lacrimata. 

 Fruit pyriform or nearly so. 46. C. condigna. 



XIV. UNIFLORAE. 



Mature fruit pyriform : sepals narrow. 47. C. Earlei. 



XV. CRUS-GALLI. 



Ripe fruits bright, shining, red: spines slender. 48. C. pi/racavthoides. 



1. C. apiifolia (Marsh.) Michx. A shrub, or a small tree, 2-6 m. tall, with 

 smooth gray bark, usually with several crooked stems. Leaf-blades broadly 

 ovate or orbicular, 2-4 cm. long, 2-4 em. wide, acute at the apex, mostly 

 truncate or cordate at the base, pubescent, at least when young, piunately and 

 deeply 5-7-cleft, the lobes sharply serrate: corymbs subsimple, 3-10-flowered: 

 pedicels and hypanthium pilose-pubescent: sepals lanceolate, usually glandular- 

 serrate and colored at the tips: corolla 10-12 mm. broad: stamens about 20, 

 the anthers pink or purplish: fruit oblong or oval, 4-7 mm. long, scarlet: 

 nutlets 1-3, the hypostyle upwardly and dorsally extended over the apex. 



The P.\RSLEY-H.\w grows in low rich soil and swamps, and on banks in northern 

 Florida. (Cont.) 



2. C. spathulata Michx. A shrub or small tree, sometimes 6-8 m. tall, with 

 gray or brown smooth or minutely scaly bark and usually several stems. Leaf- 

 blades spatulate or oblanceolate, 1-4 cm. long, 5-20 mm. wide, narrowed into 

 winged petioles, obtuse or subacute at the apex, the borders crenate or crenate- 

 serrate and frequently incisely 2-3-lobed, glabrous or very nearly so, shining 

 above: corymbs compound, many-flowered, glabrous: pedicels, hypanthium and 

 short triangular sepals glabrous: corolla 7-10 mm. broad: stamens about 20: 

 fruit globose, red at maturity, 4-6 mm. in diameter: nutlets 3-5, the hypostyle 

 upwardly and dorsally extended over the apex. 



The Small-feuited haw grows in moist rich soil and on banks of streams 

 in northern Florida. (Cont.) 



3. C. aestivalis (Walt.) T. & G. A tree 5-9 m, tall, or a large shrub with 

 several stems, the bark dark reddish brown, fissured and scaly. Leaf-blades 

 elliptic, oblong, oblong-euneate or obovate, 2-7 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, 

 either acute or rounded at the apex, narrowed or contracted below into winged 

 petioles, dentate, sinuate or crenate-serrate, tomentose with a pale or rufous 

 covering when young, becoming in age glabrate or glabrous above, below 

 rufous-tomentose, especially along the midrib and veins: corymbs 2-5-flowered, 

 simple: pedicels and hypanthium glabrous: sepals triangular, usually colored 

 near the tips, minutely serrate or entire: stamens about 20, the anthers purple: 

 fruit depressed-globose, red at maturity, punctate, 12-15 mm. in diameter: 

 nutlets 3-5, the hypostyle confined to the lateral faces and terminated at the 

 ventral apex. 



The !May-haw grows in shallow ponds and on banks of streams in northern 

 Florida. (Cont.) 



4. C. maleoides Sarg. A small tree 4-5 m. tall, or more frequently a large 

 shrub with several stems. Leaf-blades oval, obovate or nearly orbicular, those 

 of the shoots usually ovate, 1.5-5 cm. long, 1-4 cm. broad, glabrous or with 

 tufts of hairs in the axils of the veins beneath, acute or rounded at the apex, 

 narrowed or contracted below into short winged petioles, serrate, and at least 

 on the shoots shallowly incised: corymbs simple, 3-5-flowered: pedicels and 

 hypanthium glabsous: sepals lanceolate, usually colored: stamens 15-20, the 

 anthers purple: fruit subglobose or slightly oval, at maturity red, 8-12 mm. 

 thick: nutlets 3-5, the hypostyle confined to the lateral surfaces. 



In wet or moist soil bordering streams, Volusia County. (Endemic.) 



