NORTH AMERICAN 
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eimen is from Arkanzas, 
754. Melotiiria punctata Raf. stem fili- 
form angular, leaves cordate 5angular smooth 
entire or subdentate, thin glaucous with minute 
black dots on both sides, petiols equal to leaves 
filiform ; peduncles uniflore, berries red elliptic 
oliveform smooth — sent me from New Orleans 
by Dr, Riddell as the M, pendula, the dots ap- 
pear black glands as in Hypericum, berries ap- 
parently red in the specimen, shape and size of 
a barberry. 
755. Melotiiria pendula (or edulis) L. 
Brown, Lunan. Sw, and Antillian Authors. — 
Scandent. petiols auriculate or alate, leaves 
rough trilobe or triangular subcordate sinuate, 
obtuse, fl. polyg. dioical, peduncles uniflore, 
berries pendulous ovate black size of a nutmeg. 
In Jamaica and the Antilles, totally unlike the 
two others, fruit very large eaten when ripe and 
pickled unripe says Lunan, probably also in 
Florida and cultivated in Louisiana. 
756. RXDDELIA Raf. family Cleomides— 
calix 5 sepals subequal, petals 5 unequal, sta- 
mens filiform short, commonly 5 subequal in- 
serted on a flat disk, ovary sessile oblong, stig- 
ma sessile obtuse. Pod sessile, linear compres- 
sed bivalve polysperme bilocular, partition 
contrary to valves, edges thick flattened. 1 mi- 
te scent, leaves simple stipulate , alternate flow- 
ers , extra-axillary solitary . — Another pretty 
G. of the family Cleomidxa, which now contains 
25 at least, (see my reform of it ; ) this is re- 
markable by habit and fruit near to the G. Pe - 
ritoma , Warea, N* Yodolohus R. or Stanley a 
N. &c but distinct from all these, yet they all 
belong to my family of Cleomides, not a sec- 
tion of Capparides. Dedicated to Dr. John 
