4 a MONADEtPHIA. PENTANDRIA. 



Upon the calix. Lepanthmm a filamentose crown. 

 Pepo (Berry i.) pedicellate. 



Generally clijpbing- shrubs, rarely annual or perennial; 

 leaves alternate and stipulate, simple, entire, 3-lobed or 

 digitate; petiole naked or glandulous, tendrills axillary; 

 peduncles 1 to 3-flo\vered, below the calix mostly articu- 

 lated, the articulation subtended by a 3-leaved or 3-par- 

 ted involucrum, the segments ot" which are entire or rare- 

 ly dissected, the same involucrum sometimes minute, 1- 

 leaved, or altogether wanting. The calix is properly 

 speaking 10-parled, the 5 internal segments being mere- 

 ly petaloid. 



Sfeciss. 1. p. h/fea. Q.incarnata. From Delaware to 

 Florida. Fruit edible, subacid and spongy. 



A genus of 53 species, according to Persoon, exclusive- 

 ly indigenous to the American tropics with the sole ex- 

 ception of the 2 species in this Catalogue. 



470. PHILOXERUS. 72. Brown. 



Calix 5 -parted. Corolla none. Stamina 5, 

 rombined at tlie base into a small entire cup, 

 shorter than the gcrrn. Jnthers 1 -celled. Stig- 

 mas 2. VtriciUus membranaceous, 1-seeded, 

 valveless. 



Leaves opposite, spikes terminal, capitate; flowers trl- 

 ijracteate. 



Spicies. 1. P. vermiailai'is. Illecebrwn vermiculatiim, 

 L. Hab, On the sea-coast of Carolina and Florida. Ph» 



471. ^OPLOinECA.t 



Cato double; exterior 2-leaved, scariose, con- 

 Tolute, truncated and much shorter than the in- 

 terior; interior calix monophyllous, semiquin- 

 <|uifid and densely tomentose. Corolla none, 

 Lepanthium .cyliiidric, 5-toothed, staminiferous. 

 Stigma simple, capitate, pubescent. Utricidus 

 1-seeded, inclosed in the indurated muricate 

 caiix. 



I From c7r?.oVy armour and B-riKri^ a sheath^ in allusion to the 

 seed of this plant being protected in an armed sheath. 



