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sized flowers: styles distinct, introrsely stigmatic at and below 
i t. 
the tip: ovules numerous in two rows: seeds fla 
A. parviflora Duna. Pedicels very short and flowers much 
smaller: petals less acerescent: stigma sessile on the ovary: 
ovules about 10, nearly in a single series: seeds few, turgid. 
lowers from the axils of less deciduous leaves (commonly in 
ee PP 
pairs or accompanied by a leafy shoot from the same axil); these furtura- 
rmu cer 
2 ? ye . . 
roundish and at length obovate; inner thicker, saccate-concave at base, 
the concavity purple or pink an conspicuously rimose-corrugate longitu- 
ubs. 
A. grandiflora Dunax. Leaves when young with both sides 
{as well as the shoots) tomentulose: leaves spatulate-oblong to 
obovate or oval: outer petals 2 inches or more Jong when full- 
grown, 3 or 4 times the length of the revolute-margined inner 
ones, 
A. cuneata SHuTTLeworTH in distrib. coll. Rugel. Less pu- 
twice the length of the inner.—Pine barrens of 8. Florida ; first 
coll. near Lake Monroe, in young fruit only, by Rugel, no. 8. 
Several years later in flower, by Palmer, Havard, and apparently 
by Feay, if it is A. reticulata Chapm., Fl. Ed. 2, 603, as I suppose 
from the description. 
“%% Powers in the axils of extant subcoriaceous and subsessile reti- 
culate-venulose leaves: outer and inner petals very unlike; those of inner 
ies rimose-corrugate in the concavity, as in the preceding section: ova- 
ries distinctly stvliferous and 8 to 10-ovuled : fruit not seen : glabrous un- 
der-shrubs (rarely some minute pubescence) ; the flowering stems mostly 
simple and hardly woody, but springing from a woody base or sto 
A. angustifolia. Stems 2 or 3 feet high, erect: leaves elon- 
gated, from narrowly linear (and 5 or 6 inches long by 2 to 4 
lines wide) to narrowly spatulate: flower white, large, commonly 
erect: outer petals much accrescent, 1} to 2 inches long, oblong; 
inner much narrower and smaller, lanceolate above the saccate- 
concave internally purple-spotted base : ovaries almost glabrous.— 
This is the Orehidocarpum pygmeum of Michaux, in part, per- 
haps mainly, and the Asimina pygmea figured by Dunal in his 
monograph, also in part the Uvaria pygmea of Torrey & Gray s 
Flora. Good specimens of it were distributed in Curtiss’s col- 
