HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 215 



Small trees or shrubs with alternate deciduous or eem- 

 pervirent leaves; peduncles lateral or axillary, usually 

 many-flowered; flowers small, sometimes 5, 7'or 8-cleft, 

 with a similar number ot" stamina and seeds. 



Species. 1. P. verticillatus. Dioicous. 2. ambigtms. 

 Michaux. Leaves deciduous, oval, entire, with a mucro- 

 nulate point, petiolate, smooth on both sides; feminine 

 flowers solitary, upon long- peduncles. Obs. A small tree 

 with a smooth whitish bark; leaves betwixt oval and el- 

 liptic, always entire on the margin, about one inch and 

 a h?ilf long-, and one inch wide, petioles near half an inch; 

 peduncles of the fruit often 2 inches in length. This is 

 not P. ambiguns of Mr. Pursh, which seems to be little 

 more than a variety of No. 1. 



3. Lsvigatus. Ph. 4. lanceolatns. Ph. 5. glaber. (Tnk- 

 berries.) 6. coriaceous. Ph. 7. *atomarius. Leaves sem- 

 pervirent, cuneate-oval, acute, coriaceous, apex subser- 

 rate, under side atomiferous; younger branches subvis- 

 cose; pedlcells lateral, 1-flowered; berries tuberous.— 

 Obs. Nearly allied to P. glaber, but evidently distinct; 

 perhaps more nearly related to P. coriaceus of Pursh, but 

 by no means reconcileable with his description. It is a 

 shrub much higher and larger as well as broader leaved 

 than P. glaber; the leaves 1 and a half to 2 inches long, 

 and from 10 to 12 lines wide, serratures mucronate, not 

 exceeding 2 pair, situated towards the point, often want- 

 ing; under side scattered with minute blackish atoms; 

 younger branches or shoots brown and viscid, in P. glaber 

 minutely pubescent. Berry 6-seeded, large. Hab. In 

 Georgia (around Savannah), South and North Carolina; 

 rather rare. 



An American genus, of which 4 other species are indi- 

 genous to the West Indies. 



If Flowers spathaceous, 

 309. PANCRATIUxM. L. 



Corolla superior, funnelform, with a long 

 tube. Lepanthium (nectary) 12-clel"t, bearing 

 the stainina. 



Spatha 1-leaved, opening laterally, 1 or many-flowered. 



Species. 1. P. mexicanum. 2. rotatum. 3. mari- 

 timum. 



The greater part of this splendid genus is indigenous 

 to tropical America, there are at the same time 2 species 

 in India and 3 in Europe. 



