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1. Petesia spicata. Spiked Petesia. 
Leaves elliptic attenuated glabrous pubescent 
especially the under surface of the nerves, pet- 
ioles hairy, racemes terminal spicate. — DC. 
Swartz, FI. Ind. Occ. III. 1945. 
II A B. Thickets on the Southside. 
FL. 
A shrub about 5 feet in height : branches sub-virgate, of 
a palo ferruginous colour and subhirsute. Leaves decus- 
sating, attenuated at the base, acute at the apex, 4-6 
inches in length: petiole half an inch in length, hairy. 
Stipules membranaceous, rather broad, terminating in a 
subulate point. Racemes solitary, of nearly the same 
length as the leaves. Flowers in clusters of 3-6, subses- 
sile, minute, whitish. Corolla minute, 4-toothed. Corolla 
thrice the length of the calyx, pubescent : limb 4-cleft : 
throat villous. Style longer than the corolla : stigma 
incrassated, bifid. Berry size of a hemp-seed, crowned 
with the minute calyx. Seeds many, very minute. 
VI. COCCOCYPSELUM. 
Calyx ovate, 4-partite with the divisions nar- 
row, persistent. Corolla infundibuliform, 4-par- 
tite, with the throat glabrous. Stamens 4, in- 
cluded. Anthers oblongo-cordiform. Stigma bifid. 
Berry ovate, crowned, 2-celled : seeds many, lcn- 
ticulari-angulated, wingless. 
Name from xoxxoj a fruit, and xv^sXyj a vase, from the 
hollow fruit, crovvned with the minute calyx, having a re- 
semblance to a vase. 
1. Coccocypselum repens. Creeping Cocco - 
cypselum. 
Prostrate creeping, leaves ovate pubescent, pe- 
duncle at first very short, afterwards sub-elonga- 
ting, capitule few-llowered, bracteee subulate. 
C. herbaceum repens, Browne, 144. t. 6. f. 2. — Swartz , 
FI. Ind, Occ. I. 245. 
11 A B. The higher mountains. Portland Gap. 
