DIOECIA HEXANDRIA. 
699 
A vine climbing over shrubs sometimes 15 or 20 feet high, terete, with its 
upper branches unarmed. Leaves somewhat membranaceous, entire, vary- 
ing a little in their figure, acute or slightly acuminate, and very often a little 
oblique near the summit, paler underneath, with 3 distinct though not promi- 
nent and two obscure nerves, on a petiole about 3 lines long. Flowers nu- 
merous in small axillary umbels on a common peduncle rarely half an inch 
long. Berries red. 
Grows like most of the genus in damp rich soils. 
Flowers May — June. 
8. Laurifolia. Lin. 
S. aculeata, ram is 
inermibus; foiiis ovali- 
lanceolatis, paulo acu- 
minatis, 3-nervibus, 
coriaceis, lucidis, pe- 
rennantibus; umbeilis 
brevissime peduncula- 
tis. 
Sp. pi. 4. p. 779. Walt. p. 245. Mich. 2. p. 237. Pursh, 1. p. 256. 
Nutt. 2. p. 238. 
Stem climbing to a considerable height, armed near the base, the branches 
terete, smooth. Leaves numerous, somewhat crowded, oblong, elliptic with 
a sudden and slight acumination at the point, rigid, coriaceous, lucid, peren- 
nial. Flowers small, in axillary umbels, common peduncle very short, not 
as long as the pedicels. ( Berries spherical, black, one-seeded. Walt.) 
Grows in swamps and wet soils. 
Flowers July. The fruit matures late in the winter. 
Prickly, branches 
unarmed; leaves oval 
lanceolate, slightly acu- 
minate, 3-nerved, cori- 
aceous, lucid, perenni- 
al; umbels on short pe- 
duncles. 
9. Pumila. Walt. 
S. inermis; foiiis cor- 
dato-ovatis, integerri- 
mis, sub 5-nervibus, 
subtus molliter pubes- 
centibus; umbeilis bre- 
viter pedunculatis, pe- 
diceliis brevissimis; 
baccis oblongis acutis; 
caule procumbente. E. 
Unarmed; leaves 
cordate, ovate, entire, 
somewhat 5-nerved, 
softly pubescent under- 
neath; umbels on short 
peduncles, pedicels ve- 
ry short; berries ob- 
long acute; stem pro- 
cumbent. 
