64 AXONACEiE. Asimiua. 



A. CUneata, Shutti.eworth. Less pubescent, a foot or two high : leaves smaller, an iucli 

 or two long, even the nascent ones often quite glabrous above, becoming coriaceous in age : 

 pedicels solitary ; outer petals 1 to IJ inches long, only twice the length of the inner. — 

 Uistr. coll. liugel, 8; Gray, Bot. Gaz. xi. 163. A. reticuluta, Chapni. Fl. ed. 2, 603, not 

 Shuttleworth. — Pine barrens of S. Florida; near L. Monroe, Rugel, in fruit. Coll. in 

 flower by Palmer, Feay, Ilavard, the last in February ; later also by Curtiss. 

 * * Flowers solitary in the axils of extant subcoriaceous and reticulate-veiny subsossile 

 leaves, produced in spring and early summer : outer and inner petals strongly dissimilar: 

 styles distinct: ovules 8 to 10: floweriug stems mostly simple and suffruticose from a 

 thickened woody base or stock : herbage quite glabrous from the first or very nearly so : 

 fruit an inch long or more, few-seeded : seeds globose-ovate, little compressed. 

 A. angustif olia, Gray. Stems 2 or 3 feet high, erect : leaves elongated, from narrowly 

 linear (5 or 6 inches long by 2 to 4 lines wide) to narrowly spatulate (3 to 5 inches long and 

 half or tliree fourths inch wide) : flower white, large, commonly erect: outer petals much 

 accrescent, 1^ to 2 inches long, oblong; inner much smaller, lanceolate above the strongly 

 concave internally purple and longitudinally corrugate-thickened base : ovaries almost 

 glabrous.^ — Bot. Gaz. xi. 163. Orckidocarpum pjjgnia'um, Michx. Fl. i. 330, & Porcdia 

 )ii/(jmaa, I'ers. Syn. ii. 95, in part. Asimtna pj/rpnoia, Dunal, 1. c. t. 10; Ell. Sk. ii. 43, 

 mainly; Chapm. Fl. 15, in part. A. pt/gmcea, v&r., Curtiss, distr. 87*. Uvaria pi/gmcra, 

 Torr. «& Gray, Fl. i. 45, mainly. — Sandy pine woods, Florida and adjacent Georgia. Parts 

 of the flower occasionally in fours. 

 A. pygmsea, Dvnal, 1. c. excl. syn. Stems a foot or two high, commonly declined or 

 arcuate : leaves from cuueate-linear to oblong, 1 to 4 inches long, half inch to full incli wide, 

 much reticulated : flowers strongly nodding, mostly brown purple ; outer petals ovate, 

 becoming ovate-lanceolate or spatulate, seldom over half inch long, not broader nor be- 

 coming much longer than the thicker and broadly ovate inner ones. — Ell. 1. c. in part; 

 Curtiss, distr. 87 ; Gray, I.e. 164. Anona pygmau, Bartr. Trav. (Am. ed.) t. 1. Uvaria 

 ]i)/gm(pa, Torr. & Gray, 1. c. in part. Asimina secnndijiora, & A. reticulata, Shuttleworth in 

 distr. coll. Bugel, 10 & 9, the former just the plant described and figured by Bartram ; the 

 latter a smaller-flowered form with oblong or linear-oblong leaves an inch or so in length 

 and not tapering to the base. — Dry pine barrens, E. Florida"^ and adjacent Georgia, first 

 coll. Ijy Bartram, 



Okdeu IV. MENISPERMACE.i:. 



By a. Gray. 

 "Woody (at least at base) and sarmentose or twining plants; with colorless 

 bitter juice, mostly palmate or peltate alternate leaves and no stipules, and small 

 dioecious flowers ; their parts 3-merous or sometimes 4-merous, with hypogynous 

 sepals, petals, and stamens in two series of each (or the latter more numerous in 

 one genus and petals wanting in another), the parts imbricated in the bud ; the 3 

 to 6 carpels distinct, uniovulate, in fruit berry-like drupes, commonly incurved as 

 they grow, making the seed and embryo crescentic or annular, the latter nearly 

 the length of the scanty albumen. Peduncles axillary or super-axillary. Anthers 

 with normal dehiscence, usually short. Ovule amphitiopous. Order nearly all 

 tropical, except these few representatives in Atlantic N. America. 



* Floral envelopes plainly of two sorts, viz. sepals and petals : anthers innate, 4-lobed and 

 mostly 4-locellate : carpels becoming incurved aftei" anthesis, bringing the apex of the 

 drupe down next the base ; the rugose and grooveil and laterally fl:>tteiifd putamen 

 therefore circular or strongly reniform, bony, and the seed reiiiform or horse-shoe shaped : 

 embryo .slender, with long and narrow cotyledons. 



1 Seeds ovate-subglobose with distinct arillus ; see Bot. Gaz. xi. 220. 

 - Since coll. at Gainesville, Central Florida, Miss 1 eirce. 



