Sar/cretia. KII A M \ A( K.i:. 405 



Fl. i. 260, 685 ; London, Arh. ii. 528, f. 196; Gray, Oen. 111. ii. 174, t. 165 ; Trele.ai»e, I. c. 

 363. B. sniudiiis, 'rrelcji.sc, 1. c. 3G4 ; Hritton, Mem. Torr. C'lul), v. TJO ; Wcberl.aucr, 1. v. 

 406, f. I'jy 1)-G. Il/i(iiiiiius scaiidciis, Hill, llort. Kew. 453, t. 20. & Vcg. SvHt. xiv, 64, t. 17. 

 II ivlithilis, L. f. Siii)i)l. 152 ; .]iu-(|. Ic. Kar. ii. 12, t. 336; L'ller. Scrt. Angl. 5. Zi:yj,hu» 

 voliibilis, Willd. Spec. i. 1 102. — Virginia to Central Texas and Florida. 



5. KARWiNSKIA, Zucc. (Named in honor of Baron Kunriitsh/, :i 

 Bavarian traveller.) — Shrubs or small trees with .spint-lcss branches, mostly sub- 

 opposite entire pinnately veined black-punctate ample rather thin leaves with 

 minute stipules, and flowers in short-peduneled axillary clusters. — Abh. Akad. 

 Miinchen, i. ;34t) ; Henth. & Hook. Gen. i. .'J77 ; Baill. Hist. PI. vi. 7/) ; Trelease, 

 Trans. St. Louis Acad. v. 3G0, 304; "VVeberbauer in Kngl. <Si I'nintl. Nat. Pllan- 

 zenf. iii. Ab. 5, 405. — Of the Mexican region. 



K. Humboldtiana, Zrcc. 1. c. 353. Shrub or small tree: twigs glabrescent : leaves 

 niiuly as in Bdc/nmiii, elliptic-ovate, rounded or subcordate at base, obtu.se, mucronate or 

 long-acute, entire or undulate, nio.-*tly glabrous, slightly paler and with some snuill black 

 glandular dots bcneatli, 1 to 3 indies long, their slender jjetiolcs usually about one third a.s 

 long, but soinctinies greatly reduced : peduncle a line long or less, few-Huwered ; j)edicels of 

 equal length, both elongating in fruit: drupe ovoid, apiculate, 6 lines long; .style articulated 

 near the top. — Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 100; Trelea,se, 1. c. 364. K. gland nlosa, Zucc. 

 1. c. 351, t. 16, & Flora, xv. pt. 2, Beild. 71. A', affinis, Schlecht. Linnica, xv. 460. K. bini- 

 flora, Schlecht. 1. c. R/uimuus umbelldlus, Cav. Ic. vi. 2, t. 504. Ii. Iliimboldtianus, U(vm. & 

 Schult. Sy.st. V. 295; HBK. Nov. Gen. & Spec. vii. 52, t. 618. — Southwestern border of 

 Tex;is. (.Mcx., Lower Calif.) 



6. REYNOSIA, Griseb. (Named for Dr. Alvaro Reynoso, a Cuban 

 chemist of the middle of the present century.) — Shrubs or small trees with thorn- 

 less twigs, mostly opposite coriaceous entire pinnately veined medium-sized ever- 

 green Jeaves with minute stipules, and sessile axillary umbels, — Cat. PI. Cul). 

 33; Eggers, Vidensk. Meddel. 1877, 173; Trelease, Trans. St. Louis A<ad. 

 V. 3G0, 364; Sargent, Silv. ii. 19; Weberbauer in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Ptian- 

 zenf. iii. Ab. 5, 405. — Of the West Indian region. 



R. latifolia, Griskh. 1. c. 34. Small tree, glabrous or the twigs at first slightly puberulent : 

 leaves broadly elliptical, spatulate-oblong, or obovate, rounded at both ends, enuirginate and 

 commonly mucronate, entire, slightly revolute, very thick, often j)aler or reddish beneath 

 and with a thick miilrib, finely reticulate, 6 to 18 lines long, on short tliick petioles: flowers 

 appearing with the new leaves: pedicels from 2 becoming 4 lines long: fruit ellipsoid.il. 6 

 lines long, short-beaked. — Fggers, Vidensk. Meddel. 1877, 173, t. 2, & Bull. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. no. 13, 40; Gray, Bot. Gaz. iv. 208; Chapm. Fl. ed. 2, 612; Trele.ise, 1. c. 364; 

 Sargent, Silv. ii. 21, t. 56, & Gard. & For. iv. 15. — .Miami and the Keys of l-'lorida. (Malia- 

 mas, W. Ind.) 



7. SAGER^TIA, P.rongn. (Named for Augiistin Sageret, a French 

 liorticulturist and vegetable physiologist.) — Trailing, scrambling, or spreading 

 shrubs with spiny divaricate twigs, mostly obliquely opposite often serrulate jiin- 

 nately veined glossy leaves of medium size with minute stipules, and nearly 

 sessile flowers forming interrupted axillary spikes often aggregated into rigid 

 compound clusters at ends of the branches. — M^m. Rhamn. 52, & Ann. 

 Sci. Nat. X. 359; Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 175; r.enth. & Hook. Gen. i. 37:t : 

 Baill. Hist. PI. vi. 79; Trelease, Trans. St. L..uis Acad. v. 'MW. -MM; 

 Weberbauer in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. iii. Ab. 5, 40S. — Mostly of 

 the Asiatic region. 



