A monotypie family 2 of herbaceous dicotyledons distinguished by per-fect, hypogynous,
zygomorphic flowers; synsepalous calyx with the 3 upper lobes subulate and hooked; …

The small, generally inconspicuous flowers, which always have a floral tube formed by the
fusion of basal parts of the perianth and androecium, are mostly bisexual. Unisexual flowers …

Shrubs or trees with simple, alternate, exstipulate leaves. Flowers com-plete, showy, borne
singly in the axils of the leaves. Sepals 5 (6), im-bricate (quincuncial: 2 outside, 2 inside, 1 in …

Deciduous [or evergreen],±pubescent trees or shrubs. Leaves simple usually with
deciduous stipules [or stipules fused or rarely absent], peti late, alternate [or opposite] …

Shrubs or trees with simple, opposite or alternate, coriaceous, glandular-punctate,
exstipulate leaves, often with a continuous intramarginal vein. Inflorescence cymose …

Deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees, leaves simple, alternate, entire, exstipulate,
short-petioled [sessile], glabrous. Inflorescences terminal or axillary racemes, each flower in …

All three co-authors of this interesting book are horticulturists connected with the University
of Illinois. They have produced a popular encyclopaedia rather than a conventional cultural …

44 Rhodora[February 1757 as including Haller's Mariscus and Schoenus Mariscus L.
However, a year previously Patrick Browne6 published a West Indian species (of Mariscus …

Reverchonia, a monotypic genus of the subfamily Phyl lanthoideae, has been placed in the
subtribe Phyllanthinae adjacent to Phyllanthus (Pax and Hoffmann, 1931). The single …

Pelliciera (described separately)." No further statement was m cerning the ultimate
disposition of Pelliciera, which he include descriptions of the genera and in his prepared key …