26 Pinckneya pabens. 



A low tree, from fifteen to twenty-five feet in height, rarely more, 

 and from five to six inches diameter at hase ; very much branched, 

 the young branches and stems tomentose, and garnished with deci- 

 duous stipules. Stems from a single root, numerous. Leaves oppo- 

 site, four or five inches long, one and a half to two broad, light sis- 

 kin-green underneath ; petioles and one inch of the costa above and 

 below, hyacinth-red, very pubescent. Flowers about one and a half 

 inch long, numerous, supported on terminal corymbs Limb of the 

 corolla revolute, very pubescent, covered with minute carmine-red 

 streaks or dots, anthers brownish, filaments white, pistils yellow. 

 Peduncles and corymb fastigiate, mountain -green and very pubescent. 

 Young flower-buds ash-grey, larger ones yellow and streaked with 

 dull red, all densely pubescent. Calix pubescent, calicine segments 

 channelled and angular. At costa, whitish or straw-yellow, tinged 

 at the edges with carmine red. One, sometimes two of the calicine 

 segments dilated into large bracteiform appendages,reticulately vein- 

 ed with green beneath, veined with red above, and cupped. Capsule 

 round, compressed centrally, thin, cartilaginous, with a deciduous 

 pellicle. Seeds numerous, round or irregularly angular, and alated. 

 Native of Georgia, on the banks of St. Mary ; found also from New 

 river, South Carolina, along the sea coast to Florida;* and accord- 

 ing to the younger Michaux, " a cool and shady exposure appears 

 the most favourable to its growth."f " In sphagnous swamps, from 



* Elliott. t North Am. Sylva. vol. ii. p. 260. 



