GARRYA. GARRYACE-S;. 373 



trate, atoloniferous, with branches usually bright red-purple ^nd smooth; 

 braiichlets and ihtiorescense appresaed puliepcejit, petioles 3-18 lines long; 

 leaves from lanceolate to broadly ovate or oblong short- or long acuminate 

 or only acute mostly obtnse af base, minutely appre8»ed pubest-ent 

 aboqe, more or less white and appressed pnbeaceni beiieath with 

 straijiht' rigid hairs: flowers mostly in .small cymeo: calyx-teeth 

 minute: frnit white or lead-color ; stones very' variable srom ovate and 

 p iiUted scarcely flatteneri, higher than broad, to more or less flat- 

 tened, broader than high, these extremes completely connected by 

 . interujediate shapps and dimensions, all with more or less furrowed edge. 

 From. New Brunswii-k to the District of Columbia atid westward to the 

 Cascade Mountaiins and, British Columbia. Soutli to New Mexico and 

 Arizona. 



C. giabrata. Benth. Bot. Suppl. 18. .shrub 4-12 feet high, with erect 

 and mostly bushy, gray, smooth branches brearing, usually crowded small 

 ' leaves: branchlets and inflorescence glabrous or nearly so: petioles short 

 and slender; leaves laneolate to nearly ovate or oblong, acute at each 

 end, glabrous or sparsely and minutely appressed-pudescent on both sides, 

 the lower surface l;int little paler than the upper: flowers in numerous 

 small open cymes; calyx teeth prominent : fruit white or light blue: stone 

 but little compressed, not furrowed; broader than high. Along atieams 

 southwest Oregon to Caliiornia. 



Order XLYI. GAEEYACEiE Lindl., Bot Reg. xx, t, lfi86. 



Shrubs or small trees with opposite persistent entire leaves 

 and dioecious flowers in aments or catkins. ( alyx adnate to 

 the ovary, the limb 4-loothed, valvate in the bud. Petals none. 

 Stamens 4, inserted on the epigynous disk. Ovary 1 celled, 

 with two pendulous ovules. Fruit baccate, crowned with the 

 remains of the calyx. Seeds anatropous. Embryo nearly as 

 long as the fleshy albumen. 



GAHRYA Dougl. Lindl. 1. c. 



Evergreen shrubs with'greenish bark, opposite entire coria- 

 ceous leaevs and dioecious flowers in axillary pendulous aments, 

 solitary or in threes between the decussately connate bracts. 

 Calyx of the sterile flowers 4-parted with linear valvate seg- 

 ments. Stamens 4, filaments distinct, disk and rudimentary 

 ovary none. Calyx of the fertile flowers with a sh ortly 2-lobed 

 or obsolete limb, disk and rudimentary stamins none. Ovary 

 1 celled with two pendulous ovules. Styles 2, stigmatic on the 

 inner side, peisistent. Berry ovoid, 1-2 seeded. 



G. Freiiiontli Torr. Pac. R. Rep. iv, 136, Shrub 4-li feet high, be- 

 coming glabrous: petioles 3-9 lines long; leaves ovate to olilong or ellipti- 

 cal, nioFtly acute at each end, usually somewhat mucronate. entire 

 smooth or' nearly po on both sides: fertile -aments 23^-5 inches long; 

 hvHCts prominent, connate al)ove the middle, acute, somewhat silky: fruit 

 globose, tipcominji glabrous, short-pedicellate, 2-3 lines in diameter- 



(J. elliptica Dougl. Lin'il. 1- c. A sto.ut shrub or small tree &-16 feet 

 high: petioles 8-e lines long; leaves elliptical, rounded at base, round or 



