Nyssa. 



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breviter obconicum; calycis limbus subinteger vel vix manifeste dentatus; petala 5 vel 

 saepius plura ovata vel oblonga \ — 2 mm longa, 0,25 — 0,75 mm lata; stamina petala 

 numero aequantia vel superantia, filamentis 3 — 5 mm longis subulatis, antheris ellipticis 

 utrinque emarginatis \ — 1,2 5 mm metientibus; discus humilis, apice valde depressus, 

 margine irregulariter lobatus ; styli rudimentum subulatum centro disci immersum. Flores 

 feminei sessiles in capitula 2 — 8-, plerumque 3-flora 2 — 4,5 cm longe pedunculata dis- 

 positi, basi plerumque bracteis bracteolisque minutis ovatis usque lanceolatis ciliatis 



1. A—H Nyssa ogeche Marsh. A Ramulus $. B Flos $. C Flores Q. D Flos Q, i?id. 

 longitud. sectus. F Fructus longitud. sectus, O id. transverse sectus. H Putamen. — J—O N. 

 sylvatica Marsh. J Ramulus $. K Flos $. L Ramulus Q. M Fructus longitud. sectus. 

 N Putamen, id. transverse sectum. (See. Engler-Prantl, Pllzfam. III. 8. 258.) 



suffulti; ovarium 2 — 3 mm longum subglabrum; calycis limbus in dentes valde minutos 

 trianguläres obtusiusculos divisus; petala ovata =b l mm metientia; discus depressus; 

 Stylus 3 mm longus apice ineurvus. Drupa ovoidea, coeruleo-nigrescens, 8 — 13 mm 



> longa, putamine ovoideo dz compresso, dr manifeste obtuseque costulato. — Fig. 1 / — 0. 

 Atlantisches Nordamerika; vorzugsweise an den Rändern von »swamps« und 

 an Flussufern, aber auch an mit Hochwald bedeckten Abhängen von Maine bis Florida, 



