GARKYA, 



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trate, stoloniferous, with branches usually bright red-purple and smooth : 

 branchlets and inflorescence appressed pubescent, petioles 3-18 lines long; 

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

 or only acute, mostly obtuse at base, minutely appressed pubescent 

 above," more or less white and appressed pubescent beneath with 

 straight rigid hairs: flowers mostly in small cymes: calyx-teeth 

 minute: fruit white or lead-color ; stones very variable from ovate and 

 pointed scarcely flattened, higher than broad, to more or less flat- 

 tened, broader* than high, these extremes completely connected by 

 intermediate shapes and dimensions, all with more or less furrowed edge. 

 From New Brunswick to the District of Columbia and westward to the 

 Cascade Mountains and British Columbia. South to New Mexico and 

 Arizona. 



C glabrata Benth. Bot. Suppl. 18. Shrub 4-12 feet high, with erect 

 and mostly bushy gray smooth branches bearing usually crowded small 

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

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

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

 the lower surface but 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 streams, 

 southwest Oregon to California. 



Order XLVI. GARRYACEjE Lindl. Bot. Reg. xx, t. 1686. 



Shrubs or small trees with opposite persistent entire leaves 

 and dioecious flowers in aments or catkins. Calyx adnate to 

 the ovary, the limb 4- toothed, 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. 



1 GARRYA Dougl. Lindl. 1. c. 



Evergreen shrubs with greenish bark, opposite entire coria- 

 ceous leaves 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 shortly 2-lobed 

 or obsolete limb, disk and rudimentary stamens none. Ovary 

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

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



G. Fremontii Torr. Pac. R Rep. iv, 13(3. Shrub 4-12 feet high, be- 

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

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

 smooth or nearly so on both sides: fertile aments 2). 2 -5 inches long: 

 bracts prominent, connate above the middle, acute, somewhat silky: fruit 

 globose, becoming glabrous, short-pedicellate, 2-3 lines in diameter. 

 Oregon to California. 



(t. elliptica Dougl. Lindl. 1. c. A stout shrub or small tree 5-16 feet 

 high: petioles 3-0 lines long ; leaves elliptical, rounded at base, round or 



