. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. EUiottia 751 I. ELLIOTTIA GENUS ELLIOTTIA MUHLENBERG Species EUiottia racemosa Muhlenberg JLLIOTTIA is one of the most local and rarest of trees, as it is knovm only from a limited area in the sand hill country of southeastern South Carolina and adjacent Georgia; its maximum height is 6 me- ters, with a trunk diameter of about i dm., but it is mostly a shrub. The trunk is short, the branches upright and ascending. The bar
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. EUiottia 751 I. ELLIOTTIA GENUS ELLIOTTIA MUHLENBERG Species EUiottia racemosa Muhlenberg JLLIOTTIA is one of the most local and rarest of trees, as it is knovm only from a limited area in the sand hill country of southeastern South Carolina and adjacent Georgia; its maximum height is 6 me- ters, with a trunk diameter of about i dm., but it is mostly a shrub. The trunk is short, the branches upright and ascending. The bark is thin, close, smooth and gray; the twigs are round, slender, slightly hairy, reddish brown, becoming smooth, and dark brown. The terminal winter buds are about 6 mm. long, ovoid, sharp-pointed and covered by shining brown scales; the lateral buds are smaller. The leaves are rather firm in texture, oblong, elliptic or oblong-oblanceolate, 6 to 15 cni. long, tapering toward each end, minutely tipped, entire-margined, dark green, smooth and shining above, paler, somewhat glaucous and softly hairy along the yellowish veins beneath; the leaf-stalk is slender, and softly hairy, i to 4 cm. long. The flowers appear in June and July, in loose narrow panicles i to 4 dm. long, on slender pedicels i to 2 cm. long. The calyx is 3 to mm. broad, with 4 broadly ovate, pointed, irreg- ularly toothed lobes; corolla 12 to 15 mm. long, the petals 4, linear-oblong, white, more or less re- curved ; stamens 8, about 8 mm. long, their fila- ments flattened; anthers arrow-shaped, opening lengthwise; ovary sessile, 4-celled, borne on a fleshy disk, narrowed into the long style, which is club-shaped and bent at the apex; stigma small, minutely 3-lobed; ovules numerous in each cavity. The fruit is capsular and is only knovm from a single weather-beaten specimen, collected by Dr. R. M. Harper; this is globose, 5 mm. in diameter, somewhat irregular, 4-valved; the seed is unknown. The genus consists
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