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| Leucothoe recurva, Gray. Similar to the last; but lower and more spreading: leaves elliptic-ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate: racemes spreading and recurved; anthers with 2 awns: caps, depressed and strongly lobed. April-June. Va. to Ala. —It grows in drier situations; the foliage of this and the preceding species assumes a splendid scarlet color in fall. | | Leucothoe recurva, Gray. Similar to the last; but lower and more spreading: leaves elliptic-ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate: racemes spreading and recurved; anthers with 2 awns: caps, depressed and strongly lobed. April-June. Va. to Ala. —It grows in drier situations; the foliage of this and the preceding species assumes a splendid scarlet color in fall. |
− | L. Davisise. Torr. Evergreen shrub, to 5 ft.: leaves oblong, obtuse, crenately serrulate: racemes slender, many-fld., clustered in terminal panicles. May, June. Calif. .—L. Grayana, Maxim. Half-evergreen: leaves large, broadly oval, appressed-pilose: racemes terminal, slender; flowers rather small. June. Japan. Tender.—L. neriifolia, DC. (Agarista neriifolia, Don). Evergreen, glabrous shrub, with ovate-oblong, acuminate leaves and bright scarlet flowers in erect, slender racemes at the end of the branches. Brazil. —L. pulchra, DC. (Agarista pulchra, Don). Evergreen shrub, 2 ft. or more high, glabrous: leaves ovate, mucronate, about 1 in. long: fls. white, in spreading, peduncled, slender racemes, much longer than the leaves.
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