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SMALL-LEAVED SEA-SIDE GRAPE. 
In this tree the branchlets are numerous, short, and 
covered with a light grey bark. The leaves, smooth and 
even, situated at the extremities of the branchlets, are 
oblong-lanceolate, about 3 inches long, and a little more 
than an inch in width, rather acute at either end. Raceme 
of the fertile plant 3 to 4 inches long, the flowers solitary, 
with the lobes of the calyx whitish. In the infertile plant 
the racemes are longer, and the flowers smaller, and clus- 
tered along the stalk of the raceme by 3 or 4 together. 
In the variety Z 3 . ovalifolia, the leaves are sometimes 
nearly as broad as long, rounded at each end, and some- 
times slightly sinuated at the base. 
This species appears to be also nearly allied to C. virens 
of the Botanical Register, plate 1816, but in that the 
flowers are decandrous and the racemes nodding. 
Plate LXXXIX. 
A branch of the fertile plant of the natural size, a . A twig of the male 
plant, b. The male flower. 
