736 CELASTRACEAE 
4-5, inserted under the disk, reflexed. Stamens 4-5, between the lobes of the disk. Ovary 
4-celled, merging into the disk: stigmas 4. Ovules solitary and erect in each cavity. 
Drupe with little or no pulp, 1-celled, with a crustaceous or bony stone. Seeds with or 
without arils. 
Leaf-blades spiny-toothed. 1. C. Floridanum. 
Leaf-blades crenate or entire. 2. C. austrinum. 
1. Crossopetalum Floridànum Gardner. A small straggling or prostrate shrub, with 
branches 2-4 dm. long, the twigs terete, pubescent. Leaves merely opposite ; blades oval 
or ovate, 10-15 mm. long, veiny, coarsely serrate with bristle-tipped teeth, and bristle- 
tipped at the apex, rounded at the base, short-petioled : peduncles shorter than the leaves: 
sepals 4, persistent : petals 4, oblong-orbicular: stamens 4: drupes obovoid, 3-4 mm. long, 
oblique, apiculate. 
In sand or on coral rock, southern peninsular Florida and the Keys. Also in St. Domingo. 
2. Crossopetalum austrinum Gardner. A shrub or tree 6 m. tall, with 4-angled 
brownish or ash-colored twigs. Leaves opposite or whorled ; blades obovate, or rarely a 
few somewhat elliptic, 1-4 cm. long, lightly crenate, at least toward the mucronate apex, 
narrowed at the base, smooth and glabrous: peduncles about 1 cm. long : sepals 4, rounded : 
petals 4, oval: stamens 4: drupes somewhat oblique, 5-6 mm. long, red 
In sand, southern peninsular Florida. 
6. GYMÍNDA Sarg. 
Glabrous evergreen dioecious shrubs or trees, with a pale bark and 4-angled branch- 
lets. Leaves opposite: blades elongated, entire or slightly toothed above the middle, : 
rounded or emarginate at the apex: stipules caducous. Flowers dioecious, in axillary 
cymes. Sepals 4 (rarely 3), rounded, persistent, imbricated. Disk cup-shaped, 4-lobed, 
filling the hypanthium. Petals 4, reflexed, entire, longer than the sepals. Stamens 4, ex- 
serted : filaments slender, converging. Ovary elongated, confluent with the disk, 2-celled ; 
a rudimentary 2-cleft column in the staminate flowers: stigmas sessile, 2-lobed. Ovules 
solitary, suspended. Drupe-like fruit with a thin pulp and a 2-celled, crustaceous stone. 
Seeds pendulous. FarsE Boxwoop. 
1. Gyminda Grisebáchii Sarg. An evergreen glabrous shrub or small tree 1-7 m- 
tall, with a maximum trunk diameter of 15 cm. Leaf-blades leathery, obovate or elliptic- 
obovate, 2-4 cm. long, rounded or retuse at the apex, slightly revolute, nearly sessile: 
cymes few-flowered on peduncles usually less than 1 cm. long : sepals broadly ovate, obtuse : 
corolla 4-5 mm. broad: petals oblong or obovate-oblong, 1.5-2 mm. long, obtuse, spread- 
ing or recurved : stamens shorter than the petals: drupe oblong or ovoid, 7-8 mm. long, 
sey apiculate, bluish black: seeds 1-2, suspended. [Myginda latifolia Chapm., not 
w. 
On islands and Keys of southern Florida. Also in the West Indies. Spring.—The form with leaf- 
blades about 2 em. long and glaucous above, is G. Grisebachii glaucifolia (Griseb.) Sudw. 
7. SCHAEFFERIA Jacq. 
Rigid glabrous dioecious shrubs or small trees, with a pale bark, the branches terete. 
Leaves alternate or fascicled: blades leathery, entire. Flowers dioecious, sessile or pedi- 
celled, clustered in the axils of the leaves. Sepals 4, broad, imbricated. Disk small, 
knob-like in the staminate flowers. Petals 4, hypogynous, inserted under the disk. Sta- 
mens 4, opposite the sepals: filaments incurved. Ovary 2-celled : style very short or want- 
ing: stigma 2-lobed. Ovules solitary, erect. Drupe-like fruit with little or no pulp, 2- 
celled, with a horny stone and a tuberculate coat. Seed one in each cavity, with an aril. 
f-bl . 1. S. cuneifolia- 
Peat binio oral to elifetioctiana sais: 4-6 cm. long. 2. B. frutescent. 
1. Schaefferia cuneifdlia A. Gray. A rigid glabrous evergreen shrub, with a much 
branched stem, 1-2 m. tall. Leaf-bladesleathery, clustered, obovate-cuneate, 5-12 mm. long, 
obtuse or notched at the apex, pale green, more or less prominently reticulated, sessile: cy E. 
contracted, the flowers clustered: calyx sessile ; sepals 4, suborbicular: corolla gron d 
5-6 mm. broad : petals oblong, obtuse : drupes subglobose, 4 mm. in diameter, deep scar'e 
On prairies, Texas and New Mexico to northern Mexico. ‘ 
. 2. Schaefferia frutéscens Jacq. An evergreen glabrous shrub or tree, deren " 
height of 12 m., with a maximum trunk diameter of nearly 3 dm. Leaf-blades leathery, etip- 
tic, oval, elliptic-obovate or elliptic-oblanceolate, 4-6 cm. long, pale green, acute or retuse, 
