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3.5-5 mm. long, glandular-serrate: corolla 14-18 mm. wide: fruit pyriform, 

 8-11 mm. thick, yellow at maturity, the flesh soft: nutlets mostly 3, about 7 

 mm. long, the hypostyle about 5 mm. long. 

 Sandy soil, near Citra. (Endemic.) 



40. C. incana Beadle. A large shrub 2-4 m. tall, with dark gray or brownish, 

 rough or scaly bark and crooked recurved branches. Leaf-blades cuneate or 

 obpvate-cuneate, 1-2.5 em. long, 7 mm.-2 cm. wide, pubescent, abruptly 

 pointed or rounded at the apex, wedge-shaped or more abruptly contracted at 

 the base, the margins glandular, sub-entire or shallowly lobed; petioles 5-15 

 mm. long, margined, densely white-tomentose when young, glandular: corymbs 

 simple, 2-4-flowered, or flowers solitary: pedicels and hypanthium densely 

 white-tomentose: sepals 4-5 mm. long, glandular: corolla about 15 mm. wide: 

 stamens 20, the anthers nearly white: fruit pyriform, 8-9 mm. thick, at ma- 

 turity orange-yellow, flushed or cheeked with red: nutlets 3-5, about 7 mm. 

 long, the hypostyle about 5 mm. long. 



Woods and banks, m. Fla. (Ga.) 



41. C. versuta Beadle. A shrub, or a small tree 3-6 m. tall, with dark rough 

 bark and drooping branches. Leaf -blades cuneiform, 1-3 cm. long, 5 mm.-2 

 cm. wide, or broader on leading shoots, pubescent or tomentose at maturity, at 

 least on the lower surface along the midrib and in the axils of the principal 

 veins, rounded, pointed or lobed at the apex, the borders glandular, dentate or 

 lobed above the middle; petioles 5 mm.-3 cm. long, winged, glandular, pubes- 

 cent: corymbs simple, 2-4-flowered, or flowers solitary: pedicels and hypan- 

 thium tomentose: sepals 2-3 mm. long, glandular: corolla 10-12 mm. wide: 

 stamens 20, the anthers light yellow: fruit short-pyriform, 6-9 mm. thick, at 

 maturity orange or greenish yellow with ruddy cheeks: nutlets 3-5, about 6 

 mm. long, the hypostyle 3-4 mm. long. 



Sandy-oak woods, Apalachicola river basin. (Endemic.) 



42. C. crocea Beadle. A small tree, or a large shrub 3-6 m. tall, with dark 

 rough bark and slender drooping branches. Leaf-blades cuneiform, 1-2.5 cm. 

 long, 5-15 mm. wide, or broader on leading shoots, at maturity smooth above, 

 more or less pubescent beneath, especially along the midrib, either pointed or 

 rounded at the apex, the borders glandular, denticulate above the middle; 

 petioles 7 mm.-2 cm. long, margined, glandular, pubescent or glabrate : corymbs 

 simple, 2-4-flowered, or flowers solitary: pedicels and hypanthium tomentose: 

 sepals 3-4 mm. long, glandular-serrate: corolla 15 mm. wide: stamens 15-20, 

 the anthers nearly white: fruit pyriform, 9-12 mm. thick, at maturity yellow 

 or orange-yellow, rarely cheeked with russet-red, the flesh soft: nutlets 3-5, 

 about 6 mm. long, the hypostyle 4-5 mm. long. 



Sandy soil, near Citra. (Endemic.) 



43. C. audens Beadle. A large shrub, or a small tree, with dark gray or 

 brownish rough or scaly bark. Leaf -blades obovate or obovate-cuneiform, 1.5- 

 3.5 cm. long, 1-3.5 em. wide, at maturity glabrate and shining on the upper 

 surface, pubescent beneath especially along the midrib and principal veins, 

 abruptly pointed, rounded or lobed at the apex, contracted or narrowed at the 

 base, the margins dentate and shallowly lobed; petioles 5-15 mm. long, 

 margined, glandular, pubescent: corymbs simple, 2-5-flowered, or flowers occa- 

 sionally solitary: pedicels and hypanthium pubescent: sepals 4-5 mm. long, 

 glandular-serrate: corolla 15-16 mm. wide: stamens 20, the anthers almost 

 white: fruit pyriform, 9-12 mm. thick, at maturity orange-yellow, flushed or 

 ckeeked with red, the flesh soft: nutlets mostly 3, 7-8 mm. long, the hypostyle 

 4-5 mm. long. 



Dry hills, near Chattahoochee. (Endemic.) 



44. C. lepida Beadle. A small very spiny shrub, seldom more than 1-1.5 m. tall, 

 with drooping branches. Leaf -blades obovate, round-ovate, suborbicular or spatu- 



