o4 ERICACEAE. Leucothoe. 



less : leaves coriaceous and evergreen : bractlets at or near the base of the pedi- 

 cels ; these articulated with the flower. 



# (Nearest Gaultkeria.) Racemes dense and spike-like, sessile in the axils of persistent leaves of 

 the former season, developing in spring, at first resembling catkins; the ovate concave scalv 

 persistent bracts being imbricated, little shorter than the pedicels : filaments minutely scabrous" 

 nearly straight: anther-cells obscurely or manifestly bimucronate: stigma large, depressed-capi- 

 tate and 5-rayed. Glabrous shrubs with green erect and recurving branches, and serrulate leaves 

 bright green and shining above and loosely pinnately veined. 



L. axillaris, Don. Stems 2 to 4 feet high; often minutely pubescent when young: 

 leaves from oval to oblong-lanceolate (2 to 4 inches long), mostly with an abrupt acumi- 

 natum, serrulate mainly toward the apex with cartilaginous or somewhat spinulosc teeth : 

 petioles very short : sepals broadly ovate and obviously imbricated. — Gray, Man. 1. c. ; 

 Chapm. Fl. 261 ; also DC. Prodr. vii. 601, excl. var. & habitat. Andromeda axillaris, Lam. 

 Diet. i. 157; Ait. Kew. ed. 1, ii. 69; Duham. Arb. ed. nov. i. t. 39. — Low grounds, Vir- 

 ginia to Florida and Alabama toward the coast ; not in the mountains. 



L. Catesbsei, Gray. Shoots longer (3 to 6 feet) and more recurving, glabrous : leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate and tapering into a long and slender acumination, serrulate 

 throughout with appressed strongly ciliate-spinulose teeth (4 to 7 inches long), conspicu- 

 ously petioled : sepals ovate-oblong, not overlapping in the flower : capsule chartaceous, 

 depressed, strongly lobed : seeds oval, flat, with a loose cellular-reticulated coat much 

 larger than the nucleus. — Man. ed. 2, 252, & ed. 5, 294. Andromeda t'utestxei, Walt. Car. 

 137 ; Willd. Spec. ii. 613 (excl. syn. Catesb.) ; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1955 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 

 1320. A. Walleri, Willd. Enum. 453. A. lanceolate, Desf. ? A. axillaris, Michx. Fl. i. 253, 

 chiefly. A. axillaris, var. lontjifolia, Pursh, Fl. i. 293; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2357, hardly Lam. 

 A. s/iinulosa, Pursh, 1. c, excl. habitat. Leucothoe spinulosa," Don, 1. c. ; DC. 1. c, excl. syn. 

 Duham, &c. — Moist banks of streams, Virginia to Georgia, along and near the mountains. 

 (Pursh characterized the two species, but transposed the habitats.) Flowers later than the 

 other, and with the unpleasant odor of chestnut-blossoms. 



# # Racemes loose and few-flowered in the axils of the persistent reticulated leaves: bracts and 

 bractlets minute: pedicels slender: filaments pubescent, sigmoid-curved toward the apex (in the 

 manner of Brazilian species) : anthers nearly pointless: stigma small. 



L. acuminata, Don. (Pipe-wood.) Shrub 3 to 12 feet high, with spreading hollow 

 branches, glabrous, or puberulent when young: leaves ovate-lanceolate, gradually acu- 

 minate, with callous entire or obscurely serrulate margin, rounded at base, short-petioled ; 

 the midrib only prominent; the veins and veinlets all minute and finely reticulated: 

 racemes shorter than the leaves : calyx very short and small at base of the cylindraceous 

 (4 or 5 lines long) corolla: capsule coriaceous: seeds oblong, pendulous. — Andromeda 

 aruminala, Ait. 1. c. ; Smith, Exot. Bot. t. 89. A. lunula, Jacq. Ic. liar. i. t. 79. A. pojmli- 

 folia, Lam. Diet. i. 159. A. reticulata, Walt. Car. 137. A. laurina, Michx. Fl. i. 253.— 

 Sandy swamps, coast of S. Carolina to E. Florida. 



# * * Racemes clustered in a terminal naked panicle : bracts and bractlets small and scarious or 



whitish: pedicels short: filaments glabrous, slender, straight: anther-cells 2-mucronate: stigma 

 rather small, 5-rayed. 



L. Davisise, Torr. Shrub 3 to 5 feet high, very leafy, nearly glabrous : leaves oblong, 

 obtuse at both ends, obscurely serrulate, bright green (1 to 3 inches long) : racemes nearly 

 sessile, slender, many-flowered : flowers recurved-pendulous (3 lines long) : divisions of the 

 deeply parted whitish calyx ovate-oblong, obtuse, not overlapping in the flower: seeds 

 pendulous, oblong, flat, scobiform, the thin reticulated coat being much larger than the 

 oval nucleus, and its margin densely fimbriate with clavate-oblong hair-like cells. — Gray, 

 Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 400, & Bot. Calif, i. 455 ; Hook, f . Bot. Mag. t. 6247. — California, in 

 the Sierra Nevada, Plumas and Nevada Counties, Lobb, Miss N. J. Davis, &c. 



§ 2. Ecbotrys. Calyx bibracteolate ; the persistent bractlets and distinct 

 sepals firm-chartaceous, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, much imbricated, 

 (whitish or reddish) : corolla cylindraceous: filaments glabrous, straight: anther- 

 cells 1-2-awned from the apex : stigma merely truncate : placentas short and por- 

 rect : leaves membranaceous and deciduous : flowers in secund spike-like racemes, 

 which mostly terminate the branchlets, formed early in summer, remaining naked 



