18717. Seleriea purpureo-veginate Boeok 1. Small 
tufte or forming tues eye in m0dd5 e011 or in damp clay 
anong shrabberies nea B cuaha et £5 feet; steme several, 
ereet, egreen, trie nga] nearly l/s inch thiek torerd 
the base, when old 5 ning toward the top; leaves scate 
tered, mostly st bepenipe pe hori gontally epresdtne and 
reeurved, by nde sup on median upper eide especially 
toward tne bace, deeper green ebove, infruteseence erect 
or peiareet, pete green except the brown brsets and yellow 
enthers; seede white when old; The fresh ereen fruite 
tatu e¢helky white within e few hours after the etalk is 
ut snd allowed to lie in the hot aun; Brooke 2oint, 
Mareh, 1911.6 
12718. Unens miniate Ela. ns. ap. brect under= 
shrabs in moiet fertile soll of shrabberies or light woods 
mixed with eogon grass; stem 1 to & inehs thiek, 3 to 7 
feet hign, terete, usuelly brenched from near the bese; 
braneies unbrenched, spreeding, tough; wood tough, whitieh, 
dry, without odor or taste; berk dark brown: gsnooth, elgso 
tough; leaves ecattered in subwhorls, flat, horigontelly. 
spreading, ooriaceone, much deeper and Incié green evere: 
flowers pendant, cr: Man with e faint rether plessent odor, 
succulent, the ebor t vader whitish, ealyx ooh¥eceous: 
petels equal in ¢ise an nape, eomewh st twietes end in- 
bricated to the right, 2 ie ingh # kong, minietas; enthers 
Gull yellow, etigma purplish brown; young infrutescenee 
-& inch across, perple red, eeu cela reeced which ere 
uogloboce and upon short similerly eolored pe di eels; 
Brooke Soint, Mereh, 1911 
12719. Ixora filmer’ pel De BD Sreet unéer- 
simub of woods in more or less gravelly goil near the sea- 
eoket; stem 2 inehes 4 9 feat nigh, mostly bvrenehed 
from ebove the middle: eraenches jax ond flexible, freely 
rebranche d; wood. brownd white, odorless and terteless, 
rather tough; oerk emooth, brown: leaves horizontal, 
flat, eoriseeous, derker green sbove, the younge ones ligh te 
er grea}; Anflore: eent etalke with calyx green: eoreolls 
GER HO the tubnler portion ereon except the 
middle urpareons portion anthers yellowish white 
Ae Le ¢. eo atroporpureons; fruits ovéidly com- 
preaged, et or light atropurpureons, neserly: 1/2 ineh 
long, wi th £ etone like lentionisr geeds, the mat juicy! 
Broocs Point, Mereh, 1911. 
A 
LETEO. Capparis tureganinowii Kim. n. ab. 
tall tree climber in dry woods of gravelly soil near the 
seacoast; stem looping, crooked, flexible, terete, 3 
inches thiok; wood dirty white, porous, testclese, turnip- 
like odor, pith deep brownizh red; old berk thick, grey- 
ish white and emoeth on the etem, spiny on the branches, 
Ereen on the twice; flet leavee horizontal, subcnartacecus, 
derk grecn above, much paler bere ath; inflorescence 
divericate or pendent, terminal oeersiones! LLY, usually leteral 
penioulately branched, 1 to 2 feet lone, p ale green; the 
iuner perianth segments creamy white, pudneees: the numerous 
stemens of the cane golor, etyle toward the bese inearne tus, 
the etigma green, otherw i8e ye Llowieh ; Brooks Point, 
mereh, L9ll. - : 

