OF NORTH AMERICA. 
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of Jamaica is aphyllous and perhaps not of this 
Genus ; the other is V. buxifolium ? of Smith 
with leaves ovate obtuse trinerve, and berries 
safron color. Yet our American Botanists per- 
sist to this day to call 2 or 3 of our species by 
that name ! others unite our sp. to the V. jla~ 
vens of Schwartz and Jamaica with ovate ve- 
nose leaves and yellow berries ! none of our sp. 
have ovate leaves, they are obovate ! Such are 
the blunders of our best Botanists, and yet they 
pretend that our Botany is well known and our 
shrubs &c properly named , . ! 
537. Diosfyros ciliata Raf. Branches di- 
varicate pubescent, leaves ovate and obovate or 
elliptic shortly acuminate, smooth above, pu- 
bescent beneath when young, margin ciliated, 
flowers axillary, solitary or geminate subsessile 
—Florida, seen alive in gardens, only a shrub 
5 to 6 feet high, much spreading, branches te- 
rete ash color, leaves very unequal and various 
on the same branch, 1 to 3 inches long, smooth 
beneath when old, but always ciliate, petioles 
short, peduncles still shorter, calyx flat 41obed 
corolla ovate urceolate end 4lobe, lobes broad 
short, stamens 8 to 12, anthers just protruding, 
538. Cephalanthus obtusifolia Raf. bran- 
ches nearly hexagone, leaves ternate petiolate 
ovate elliptic obtuse not acuminate, base subo- 
bliquate, beneath smooth yellow glaucous, nerves 
subpubescent — sent me from Missouri, also 
seen in West Kentucky : differs from both C. 
pubescens and C. acuminatus or occidentalis. 
The peduncles of heads has verticillated scales 
the corolla is slender equal to stamens, but the 
style is twice as long ; flowers estival white and 
fragrant. It forms a shrub 5 to 6 feet high 
growing as the others near streams. 
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