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Series III. Stellat.e. Ovules (peltate and) solitary in the cells of the 

 ovary : embryo incurved, in corneous albumen : leaver Terticillate without stip- 

 ules, unless tlie supernumerary leaves be foliaceous stipules, -which may in some 

 cases be nearly demonstrated. 



S6. GALIUM. Fl.nei- 4-meroiis (rarely 3-raerou.5), 2-carpe]lar_v, sometimes dioecious 

 Calyx-tulje globular; limb obsolete, a mere riDg or obscure border. CoroUa rotate; lobes 

 valvate, and commonlj' acuminate or mucronate afjex inflexed in the bud. Stamens with 

 short filaments and anthers, style 2-cleft or styles 2 : stiguias eapiteUate. <.)vrirv 2-celled, 

 2-lobe.l ; a single amphitropous ovule borne on the middle of the di--epiment in each ceU. 

 Fruit didymous, dry, flesby-coriaceous, or occasionally baccate, articulated on the pedicel, 

 tardily separating into two closed carpels, or only one maturing. Sei-il deeph" hollowed on 

 the face : seed-coat adnate to the albumen within, and often also to the pericarp. 



1. EXOSTfiMA, Rich. (Xot Ej-ostcnma. to which later authors Lave 

 chan;;'ed the name, which is from ejoj, on the outside, and rr-f^w.a. stamen, i. e. 

 stamens exserted.) — Tropical American shrubs or trees, one reachirjL' Florida. — 

 Rich, in Humb. & Bonpl. PL ^li^ijuin. i. l;-Jl, t. oS. Ej-osleirnna. DC. Prodr. 

 iv. y."js : A. Rirh. Rub. 200; Benth. & Ilook. Gen. ii. 42. Cindiona § Exostejiia. 

 Pers. SyiL. i. I'.l.j (180-j). where the name first appears. 



- B. Caribeeura, Ecem. & Si hult. Shrub 6 to 12 feet high, glabrous: leaves oblong-ovate 

 to lanceolate, coriaceous: stipules subulate, small: flowers on short and simple axillary pe- 

 duncles, fragrant : calyx-teeth very short : corolla white or tinged with rose ; tube inch long 

 and loljes .hardlv shorter: seeds narrowly winged. — Syst. v. 18; Torr. & Gray. Fl. U. .36. 

 Cinchona Caribcea, Jacq. Amer. t. 17'J ; Lamb. Cinch, t. 4. C. Jamnmnsis, Wright, in Phil. 

 Trans. Ixvii. t. 10; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 481. — Keys of Florida. (W. Ind., ilex.) 



2. PINCKNEYA, Michs. Georgia Bark. {Charles C'otesworth Pinch- 

 ney. ) — SinLjle species. 



• P. pubens, Micnx. Tall shrub or small tree, pubescent : leaves ample, oblong-oval to 

 ovate, acute at both ends, petioled : stipules subulate, caducous : cymes terminal and from 

 upper axils, pedunculate: petaloid calyx-lobe resembling the leaves in form, pink-colored, 

 2 inches or more long : coroUa inch long, cinereous-pubescent, purplish : capsule half-inch in 

 diameter. — Fl. i. 10.3, t 13; ilichx. f. Sylv. t. 49; Bart. Fl. Am. Sept. t. 7; Audubon, 

 Birds, t. 16.5 : Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 37. P. pnbescens, Gsertn. Fruct. iii. 80, t. 194. Pinl.iKu 

 piihi-sruns, Pers. Syu. i. 197. ('iiicliona Corolrniana, Poir. Diet. vi. 40. — Marshy banks of 

 streams in pine barrens of the low country, S. Carolina to Florida; fl. early summer. 



3. BOTJVARDIA, Sali-b. (Dr. Charles Bouvard.) — Low shrubs or per- 

 ennial herbs (from Texas to Central America, some cultivated for ornament) ; 

 with mostly sessile, and not rarely verticillate leaves, subulate interposed stipule^. 

 and handsome tubular flowers in terminal cymes. — Parad. Lond. t. 88 : HBK. 

 Xot. Gen. & Spec. iii. t. 288 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 30. — Leaves in our 

 snecies mostly verticillate and corolla not glabrous, its short lobes asi-pudins' or 

 barelv spreailino-. Flowers heteroCTone-dimorphous in the manner of Housfo/na. 



B. OVata, Gbav. Herbaceous, glabrous, obscurely srabrous ; leaves rao.stly in fours, sbort- 

 petioled, ovate, one or two inches long, co.«tately .5-veined on each .side of the midrib : cor^.^lla 

 probably purple or reddish, inch lout:, minutely puberulent. — PI. Wright, ii. 67, — S .Vri- 

 zona, between Saii Pedro and Santa Cruz, Wright. 

 — B. triphylla, Sali-d, Snffrutiiose or more shrubby, scabro-pubernlent, 2 to h feet high: 

 leaves in threes or fours (or on branchlets in pairs), from oblong-ovate to broadly lanceolate, 

 usuallv hispidulous-scabrons, at least the margins, 3-4-veined each side of the midrib : corolla 

 scarlet, about inch long, outside furfuraceous-pubescent. — Parad. Loud. 1. v. (broad-leaved 

 var., but not with viUous-closed throat in any form); Ker, Bot. Reg. t. 107: Sims, Bot. 



