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Order ONAGRACE^. 



CENOTHERA, L. 

 (E. triloba, Nutt. Perennial, nearly stemless, caespitose; leaves pin- 

 natifid, smoothish ; calyx-tube very long (3'-5'), filiform, the lobes longer 

 than the somewhat 3-lobed pale yellow petals; capsule sessile, 3- winged. — 

 Nashville, Tennessee {Dr. Gatlinger). 



JUSSI^A, L. 



J. repens, L. Smooth, creeping or floating; leaves oblong, obtuse, 

 tapering into a slender petiole ; flowers large ; calyx-lobes 5, shorter tlian the 

 petals; capsule cylindrical, much shorter than the long (2') peduncle. — 

 Ponds and ditches. New Orleans. August. 



J. Peruviana, L. ■? Shrubby, hirsute ; branches terete ; leaves broadly 

 lanceolate, acute at each end ; ovary clavate, as long as the 2-bracted pedicel ; 

 calyx-lobes 4, ovate lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the tube, shorter than 

 the roundish petals ; capsule clavate-oblong, obscurely 4-sided, longer than 

 the bracts. — Muddy banks of rivers. South Florida. — Shrub 5° - 10° high. 



LUDWIGIA, L. 

 L, Curtissii, Chapm. in Curtiss's Fuse. III. Smooth ; stem rigidly erect, 

 simple, terete ; upper leaves linear-lanceolate, tapering at the base ; flowers 

 single, sessile, apetalous, bibracteolate ; calyx turbinate, terete, the triangular 

 lobes as long as the tube. — Sliallow ponds, East Florida (Cartiss). July 

 and August. — Stem 1° - 1|° high. 



Order PASSIFLORACE^. 

 PASSIFLOEA, L. 



P. multiflora, L. Stem climbing high ; leaves velvety-pubescent, ovate- 

 oblong, entire, short-petioled ; flowers small, in axillary clusters ; involucre 

 none. — Miami (Garher). Umbrella Key (Curtiss), South Florida. — Stem 

 woody, climbing over the tallest trees. Leaves 2' -3' long. 



CABICA, L. CusTARD-ApptB. 



Flowers dioecious. Corolla of the staminate flower salver-shaped, 5-lobed. 

 Stamens 10, inserted on the throat of the corolla. Corolla of the pistillate 

 flower 5-petalled. Lobes of the stigma lacerate. Fruit pulpy, many-seeded. 

 — Trees, with simple stems, large long-petioled lobed leaves, and axillary 

 flowers. 



C. Papaya, L. Trunk simple, leafy at the top (10° -20° high) ; leaves 

 mostly 7-lobed, broadly sinuate ; staminate flowers panicled ; pistillate flowers 

 single or 2 - 3 together, and larger. — South Florida. — Flowers yellow. 



