lonidium. CANELLACK.i:. 200 



3. lONtDIUM, Vent. ("lor, £?8o?, liko a vi..Iel.) — Slirubs or h.rl.s 

 (chieHy tropical), with brandling and leafy stems, alternate or ojjpohitc leaves, 

 and flowers variously clustered or sometimes solitary and short-peduncled in the 

 axils. — Hort. Malm. i. fol. & t. 27; Mart. Spec. Mat. Med. liras. Hi, t. .'j, 4; 

 Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 144; Bentli. & Hook. Gen. i. 117, excl. llylxmthus ^ Sulea. 

 Calceolaria, La-fl. It. Hisp. 183 (1758), not Juss. Iluhuntttus, li.iill. Hi>t. PI. 

 iv. 3j1, excl. sp. (not Jacq.). 



I. FRUTiCDi-osriM, 13eiitli. Hot. .Siilpli. 7, t. 2, and a jirolialile variety dkntAtim, Gniv, I'roc. 

 Am. Acad. v. 154, are from the .soutliera end of Lower California. 



I. polygalaefolium, Vent. Low, many-stemmed from a w<x)dy eaudex, erect or diffu.se, 

 leafy, imljorulent or glahrous : leaves both alternate and oppu.site, from linear lo obluuieo- 

 late or lower even olwvate, entire, rarely subdentate : stijjnles sometimes like the leaves, 

 sometimes small or wanting: flowers solitary in the a.xils, nodding on j»edunck'.s shorter 

 than the leaves : corolla about 2 lines long, white or wiiitish ; lower lip not stipitate nor 

 prolonged: a pair of small scale-like glands at base of the lower stamens. — Ilort. Malm, 

 i. t. 27; H13K. Nov. Gen. & Spec. v. 376, t. 496, f. 1 ; DC Prodr. i. .309; Wat.*. True. Am.' 

 Acad. xvii. 324. /. lineare, Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 168; Gray. Gen. 111. i. 190, t. 82. I'l. 

 Liudh. pt. 2, 151, PI. Wright, i. 12, & ii. 16. /. f/racile, Mo.;. & Se.ss"e in DC. 1. c. 309, & Caiques 

 des Dess. t. 36. /. lineare & I. slipnlnceum (Nutt.), Torr. & (iray, Fl. i. 143. Viola nrticil- 

 lata, Ort. Dec. iv. 50; Spreng. in Schrad. Jour. 1800, ii. 190, t. 6. where it is suggested .xs ii 

 genus, SoleaA Variable species, in Mexico commonly l)ut not always with peduncle neiirly 

 equalling subtending leaf; in U. S. peduncles cominoidy but not always mucii shorter. — 

 Plains and low grounds, Arkansas and Texas to Arizona. (Mex.) 



I. parietarisefolium, DC. A foot or two high from an annual root, erect, Iw^sely branched, 

 from puberulent <>r above loosely ])ilose-pu])escent to glabrous : leaves altt-rnate or tlie lower 

 opposite, membranaceous, ovate-oblong to lanceolate, acute or acnminate, narrowed at Uise 

 mostly into a petiole, more or less serrate : stipules small and subulate : flowers axillary on 

 peduncles shorter than the leaf: corolla white and purplish; lower ]}CUH fully twice the 

 length of the others, 4 lines long, labelliform, the oval lamina slender-stipitate : a laterally 

 compressed gland on ba.se of each anterior stamen. — Prodr. i. 308; Eichl. Fl. Bn>s. xiii. 

 pt. 1, 371 ; Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xxi. 415. /. rlparium, vat.. Gray, PI. Wright, ii. 16, & 

 /. lineare, var. platj/phi/llum, Gray, PI. Wright, i. 12, both probably with some cleistogamous 

 ilowers. — W. Texas and S.Arizona, Wri</Iit. Only the var. Berlcroi, DC. 1. c. .'JOS, with 

 subserrate leaves; near 25 & 93, coll. Palmer, in Northern Mexico; the var. Ilnustnni, DC., 

 from farther south, has broader leaves thickly serrate with fine sharp teeth. (Mex. to 

 Brazil.) 



Order XV. CANELLACE.E. 



* By A. Gr.\y. 



Tropical trees, with pungent-aromatic bark, pellucid-imnctate evergreen and 

 entire penniveined leaves, no stipules, and regular hermaphrodite cymose flowers, 

 the 10 or more hypogynous stamens wholly monadelphous, with the 2-<'elled 

 anthers extrorsely adnate to the truncate tube, enclosing the one-celled and short- 

 styled ovary, which bears few to several ovules on 2 to 4 p:irietal placenta' ; the 

 fruit a berry ; seeds camphylotropous or anatropous, with ;i small embryo iu 



copious albumen. — Airieric:in order of two gon<'i' ■ "■' '• ■ > <- " .^^^ !-s. one 



reaching Florida. 



1 .\dil syn. Viilcwlariii Vtrticiiiatn. KunU-c, 1^,^. Gli;. !l. 



