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POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
A vine running over small shrubs, glabrous. Leaves pmnaie, with 5 
or 4 pair of leaflets. Leaflets ovate, very glabrous, distinctly veined on 
both surfaces, rigid, coriaceous, sometimes obtuse, but sometimes acute and 
even mucronate. Flowers solitary, terminal, of a dull purple colour, on 
small branches. Tails of the seed long and conspicuously feathered. 
Grows m the middle and upper districts of Carolina and Georgia. 
Flowers May to August. 
9. OcmioLEUfA. Hort. 
C. erecta, simplex, 
pubescens; foliis sim- 
plicibus, calycibusque 
sericeis ; pedunculo 
terminali, solitario ; 
flore inclinato. 
Kevv. 
Erect, simple, pu- 
bescent; leaves simple 
ovate, entire, the 
young leaves and ca- 
lyx silky; peduncle ter- 
minal, solitary; flower 
leaning. 
Sp. Plant. 2. p. 1294. De Candolle 1. p. 159. 
C. Sericea Mich. 1. p. 319. Pursh. 2. p. 385. 
Root perennial. Stem firmly erect, very villous, particularly near the 
summit. Leaves opposite, large, simple, entire, ovate, rather acute, reti- 
culately veined, very pubescent, or villous on the under surface,, on very 
short footstalks. Floioers solitary, terminal, yellowish* Seeds large, very 
conspicuously tailed and feathered. 
Grows in the upper districts of Carolina and Georgia, Mr. Herbemont $ 
Among the Saluda Mountains, Dr. Macbride. 
Flowers May — July. 
10. Ovata. Pursh. 
C. erecta ; foliis o- 
vatis, acutis, glabris, 
utrinque reticulato ve- 
nosis, infimis subcor- 
datis; pedunculis uni- 
floris; floribus erectis; 
aristis seminum plum- 
osis. 
Pursji. 2. p. 736. De Capdolje 
Erect, leaves ovate, 
acute, glabrous, reti- 
culate on both surfa- 
ces, the lower slightly 
cordate; peduncles 1- 
flowered ; flowers e- 
rect; tails of the seed 
plumose. 
X. p. 15,9;. 
