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along the nerves and in their axils; in the autumn thick and 
firm, dark green and lustrous on the upper surface, pale on the 
lower surface, 1 to 1% in. long and about ¥% in. wide; petioles 
wing-margined above, glandular, tomentose, ultimately pubes- 
cent or glabrous, usually about % in. long; the leaves on lead- 
ing shoots frequently 2 in. long and 1 in. wide, and sometimes 
divided by deep rounded sinuses into numerous. lateral lobes. 
Flowers 54 in. in diameter, in few usually 3-flowered simple 
compact tomentose cymes: bracts and bractlets linear-lanceo- 
late or oblanceolate, glandular, caducous ; calyx-tube broadly 
obconic, coated with matted pale hairs, the lobes narrow, acu- 
minate, glandular, villose toward the base on the outer surface 
and on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 20; 
anthers pale yellow; styles 4 or usually 5, surrounded at the 
‘bese by a broad ring of shining white hairs. Fruit solitary 
oF in ~ 3-fruited drooping clusters, on short stout pubes- 
cent peduncles, obovate, bright orange-red, usually about 3% in. 
long; calyx prominent with a broad elongated tube and reflexed 
a dular-serrate lobes ; flesh thin, dry and mealy; nutlets 4 or 
: ghtly ridged on the back, % in. long. 
_* ‘te, rarely more than 15 feet in height, with a tall straight trunk 6 or 
" in diameter covered with thick nearly black deeply furrowed bark broken 
Short thick plate-like scales, small drooping branches forming a hand- 
uuctrical head, and slender conspicuously zigzag pendulous branch- 
When they first appear with long matted hairs, dark red-brown _ 
less villose during their first season, dull dark brown the follow- 
and armed with long slender straight spines, or a 
‘the middle of March. Fruit ripens from the middle to the end 
Fens of northeastern Florida and probably north ‘ae . 
