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VIII. CaTESBTEA. 
Calycine tube obovate ; limb 4-toothed or 4- 
partite. Corolla infundibuliform j tube very long : 
limb 4-lobed. Stamens 4 ; filaments inserted at 
the base of the corolla $ anthers linear, exserted. 
Stigma bi-dentate. Berry globose or oblong, 2- 
celled : seed numerous, imbricated, scale-like. 
Shrubs with single spines above the axils of the leaves. 
Pedicels axillary. Named in honor of Mark Catesby, the 
author of the Natural History of Carolina. 
1. Catesbsea spinosa. Lilhj-Thorn . 
Leaves ovate subacute at both ends rather 
longer than the spine, calycine teeth short acute, 
berry oval, tube of the corolla very long cylindri- 
cal ob-conical at the apex. — DC 
C atesb. Car. II. t. 100. — Dot. Mag. 131. 
II A B. Gardens. 
FL. Throughout the year. 
This is a very common plant in Gardens. In many 
districts it grows spontaneously from the seeds which drop ; 
though it never becomes, strictly speaking, a wild piant. 
It is remarkable for its long pendulous flower ; but it is by 
no means very ornamental. 
2. Catesbsea parviflora. Small-flowered Lilly- 
thorn. 
Leaves oval stiff mucronate with the margin 
revolute, branchlets glabrous, flowers erect ses- 
sile, tube of the corolla abbreviated tetragonal, 
berry subrotund. 
Rhamnus, foliis buxeis minimis confertim nascentibus, 
spinis longis armata, Shane, II. 100. t. 207. f. 1. — Catesbsea 
parviflora, Swartz, FI. Ind. Occ. 230. — Vahl, Eel. I. 12. 
t. 10. f. 1. 
II A B. Thickets near the sea-shore. North-side of the 
Island. 
F l. Spring. 
