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man y-flowered : common peduncle 3-gonal, minutely puberu- 
lous : branclilets an inch or more in length, with a small lanceo- 
late bractea at the insertion of each, bearing about 10 pedicelled 
white flowers : pedicels short, puberulous, furnished at the in- 
sertion with a minute ovate acute bractea. Flowers polyga- 
mous. Calycine sepals 5 ; the 2 outer small, roundish ; the 3 
inner three times larger than the outer, obovato-subrotund, 
with 2 of them cohering. Petals 4, of nearly the same size as 
the larger sepals, appemliculated on the inner surface ; appen- 
dices petaloid, l the length of the petals, hooded from the 
margin being inflected, tipt with yellow, and glandulose at the 
apex, villoso-ciliated. Hypogynous glandules 4, minute, green. 
Stamens 8, inserted on the disk supporting the pistil ; filaments 
subulate, unequal in length, pubescent : anthers small, oblong, 
yellow. Pistil, in the barren flowers, scarcely perceptible ; in 
the fertile, ovary 3-gonal : style 3-fid, persistent. Carpels 
united to form a 3-winged capsule, cordate at the base, emargi- 
nate at the apex : wings thin, membranaceous, veined, to the 
glass puberulous : cell situated at the apex of the samara, in- 
ternally villous. Seed oval, compressed. 
Q. Serjania divaricata. Spreading Supple-jack . 
Leaves biternate, leaflets ovate acuminate retuse 
blunt slightly attenuated at the base subentire shining 
and glabrous above, pubescent and minutely punctu- 
lated beneath, panicles axillary, wings of the carpels 
dilatato-ro untied. 
Pauli ini a divaricata, Stvartz, FI. Ind. Occ. 696 — S. divari- 
cata, De Cand. Prod. I. 603. 
HAB. Common, Port-Royal mountains. 
FL. February. 
Stem woody, climbing to a great height : branches angulose 
and sulcated, and towards their extremities pubescent. Leaflets 
4-5 inches long and about 21, broad, ovate, acuminate with the 
apex retuse and blunt, slightly attenuated and the middle leaf- 
let somewhat wedge-shaped at the base, entire with the excep- 
tion of a few distant blunt teeth, shining and glabrous above, 
pubescent and punctulated with minute brown dots beneath, 
nervose, reticulato-venose, stiftish : petioles compressed, angu- 
loso-sulcated : the central partial petiole elongated, subalate. 
Tendrils axillary, solitary, longer than the leaf, angulated, bifid. 
Panicle axillary, on a long foot stalk; divisions racemose, alter- 
nate, divaricating : common peduncle anguloso-snlcated, pubes- 
cent ; its branches short, with a small lanceolate bractea at the 
insertion, bearing several pedicelled flowers ; pedicels short 
with a minute bractea at the insertion. Calycine sepals and 
petals as in S. equestris. Filaments 8, subulate. Ovary 3-go- 
