Celastraceae. 



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ilicifoliaPoir.! in Lam. Eiic.IV (1797) 



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H. B. K, 







Floi 



hiloculari descripto); DC. Prodr. II p. 13 (cum vm\ aciäifoUa DC); 



I ed. p. 75 y III ed, p. 79; Trelease in Trans. St. Louis 

 >5; A. Metz in Beik Bot, Centralbl XV p. 380 (anatoni,), 

 a nana Q. Maxa Periant. CuL (1890) p, 239 (27) (qiioad 



syn, Lam.) 



ilicifolium 0. Kixe. Rev. I (1891) 



F r u t i c u 1 u s. E a m i vetusti teretes grisei , hornotini ad internodia 

 snperne ntrinque pauUo impressi, ad apicem plus minus compressi, non 

 elevatim striati, internodiis folia subaequantibus. Stipu]ae minutae suL- 

 nlato- filiformes 0,2 — 0,5 mm. longae. Folia opposita, basi subtruncata, 

 obtusa V. acutata, nervo medio supra prominentej lateralibus utrinque beno 

 prominentibus" subramosis , dentibus nunc triangularibns , nunc subulatis, 

 coriacea, glaucescentia, subtus j)arce pilosula v, glabra. Inflorescentiae 

 2 — 8 mm. longo pedunculatae, minute plus minus pilosulae; propliylla 

 lanceolata v, ovato-lanceolata, primaria 0,5 — 0,8 mm, longa. Flores nibri 

 (ex Tkel,). Sepala basi in cupulam brevem coalita, quoad libera in aesti- 

 vatione parum imbricata, sub anthesi aperta semiorbicularia, 0,5 — 0,G mm. 

 longa, fere 1 mm. lata, dorso pilosula, Petala ovata v. obovafa, 1,2 — 

 1,4 mm. longa, 0,8 — 1 mrai. lata, coriacea. Filamenta sub disco insertn, 

 0,8 — 1 mm. longa; antherae breviter orbiculares, clausae 0,3 mm. latae. 

 Discus planus integer. Stylus 0,7 — 1 mm. longus, e basi crassioro sub- 

 ulatus, apice breviter 4-fidus, ramis erectis. Ovarium breviter conicumj 

 in stylum attenuatum, 4-loculare; ovula in quoque loculo solitaria, ad basin 

 afflxa, obovata convexa. Fructus oblique obovatus, stylo v. styli basi in- 

 crassata oblique apiculatus, latere altero subrecto, altero arcuato-convexo, 

 iion V. vix compressus, 3,5 — 5 mm. longus, 2 — 3 mm. crassus, exocarpio 

 tenui postremo verisimiliter tenuiter carnoso, endocarpio lignoso, 1-, raro 

 2-spermus. Semen obovatum; testa obsolete et minute reticulata, brunea, 

 lineis obsoletis paucis e chalaza prodeuntibus percursa, tenuis fmgilis; 

 albumen copiosum, testae accumbens, Cotyledones ovatae planae, radicula 

 ^ene evoluta cylindrica 4-plo longiores. 



Hab. in Florida australi: Cabanis, in pinetis saxosis inter Ever- 

 glades et Biscayne Baj, m. Jun. flor.: Curtiss n. 476; Key insulae: ex 

 Trelease; Haiti: Martin n. 289 (hb. Lamarck), Picarda n. 129, 522, ad 

 Petite Riviere de TArtibonite in Plateau de la Crete ä Pierrot, m. Jul, 

 fl^etfr.: Picarda n. 1661; Sto. Domingo: Bertero n. 76. 



28. Rhacoma aqiiifolia Urb. ramis hornotinis breviter v. bre- 

 vissime et dense patenti-piiosulis; foliis subsessilibus, ambitu breviter 

 V- orbiculari-ovatis, 1,2 — 2,5 cm. longis, 1 — 2 cm. latis, sinuato-den- 

 t^tis V. -lobatis, lobis triangularibus v. triangulari-lanceolatis spinoso- 

 P^mgentibns, latitudini laminae dimidiae subaeqailongis v. duplo bre- 

 vioribus, utroque latere 4—5, terminali subrecto nunc brevi nunc 

 ^longato; inflorescentiis in glomerulum contractis, in axillis foliornm 



