Gouania. VITACK.E. 41:> 



A. infesta, Meisn. Mostly puberulent or somewhat retrorsply short-villous. 3 to 5 fiet 

 liigli: braiiolilelj* all spinose.sliort, uearly .straight, njireading nearly at right angU-.s, 4 rankt-d 

 or liistii lunifi: leaves I to 5 lines long, l-nerM-d, lanitMilate or oMong, ;t4Ule or ohtUM- an<i 

 nnuionate, entire or low-serrate : fruiting pediicls rather stout, 'J lines long: iaj).-uie 'J lines 

 in diameter, gloLose, ckiplv 3grooved, irowneti hy a siiort k-ak (li:ilf line long) formed 

 of the hase of tlie .-ityle. — (ieii. ii. M ; Wats. Troc. Am. Aead. xi. 120; Urew. &. Wats. 

 Bot. Calif, i. 101 ; (Jray, I'l. Wright, i. 34, ii. 28; TreUase, 1. e. .-169. Vtuw^hus i„fislu*, 

 IIBK. Nov. Geu. & iSpec. vii. 61, t. 614. Vollttia iuj'eMa, Hrongu. Mem. Hhamn. 59, & Ann. 

 Sei. Nat. x. 366. V. {>.) wullijlom, DC. I'rodr. ii. 29. t'.Y dinpirma, DC. I'rod'r. ii. 29. 

 Cnlithrina iiifrstii, fSelih'eht. Linna-a, .w. 468. — W. Texas. (Mex.) 



A. Californica, Watson. Lower: l)riiuhlets often curved, le.-is sjiinose, the lateral spines 

 shorter; leaves hroadly spatulato to ohovate, mostly mucronate and entire, I or 2 lines long: 

 style deciduous close to tiie fruit : otherwi.se similar to the preceding. — I'roc Am. Aca<l. 

 xi. 126; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 101; Trelease, 1. c. 369. — San l^iego County, Cali- 

 fornia. (Lower Calif.) 



12. GOUANIA, .Tacq. (Xamed for Antoine Gouan, professor of botany 

 at iSIoiitpellier in the hitter part of the hist century.) — Shrubs or trees, often 

 clunbiny: by jirehensile spreading twigs, and with alternate coarsely glandular- 

 serrate often 3-nerved ample leaves with small stipules, and smidl flowers loo.sely 

 fascicled along the slend(;r naked ends of the branches. — Stirp. Am. 203 ; L. 

 Gen. ed. G, no. 11 o7 ; Brongn. Mem. Rhamn. 71, & Ann. 8ci. Nat. x. .37« ; 

 Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 385 ; Baill. IIi.sL V\. vi. 83 ; Trelease, Trans. St. Louis 

 Acad. V. 361, 3r.9; Weberbaner in Engl. & PrantI, Xat. PHanzenf. iii. Ab. .'., 

 42."). — Chiefly of the tropical American region. 



G. Domingensis, L. Twigs angled, loosely hairy to glabrate: leaves elliptic-ovate, acute 

 to sulKordate at lia.se, acuminate, 1 to 3 inches long, glalirescent or j)ersi.stently hairv along 

 the veins, the coar.se teeth commonly ending in cup-shaped glands: inflorescence short-viHous 

 rather th.in tomentosc : fruit glabrous, 3 lines long and 4 broad, notched at top and bottom. 

 — .^pec. ed. 2, ii. 1663; DC. Prodr. ii^ 39 ; Brongn. Mem. Hhamn. 73; Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 

 101 ; Chapm. Fl. 75; Trelea.se, 1. c. '369 ; Weberbauer, \. c. 425, f. 208. — S. Florida and 

 Florida Keys. (W. lud., Mex.) 



Order XLTII. YITACEyE. 



By L. n. B.VII.K.V 1 



Alternate-leaved woody plants with acidulous watery juice, climbing by ten- 

 drils opposite the leaves (the stem being sympodial) or rarely wanting tendrils 

 and erect. Ba.se of petiole enlarged and articulated at insertion, commonly more 

 or less stipulate. Flowers small, paniculate-cymose, commoidy polygamous, 

 4-o-merous, with short hypogynous and scarcely lobed caly.v. Petals valvate in 

 the bud and deciduous. Hypogynous stamens as many as petals and ojiposite 

 thrin. Gvary usually girt with or its base adnate to a nectariferous disk or with 

 ghinds alternate with the stamens, 2-celled, with a pair of collateral anatrojwus 

 ovules erect from the base of each cell ; style terminal, undivided, or hardly any, 

 and stigma depressed. PVuit a berry, containing 1 to t bony seeds; cnd)ryo 



1 Ordinal and technical generic characters by A. Graj*. 



