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1. Maytenus lucayana Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 140. 1906. 



A white-barked shrub, the twigs angular. Leaves orbicular-ovate, 1.5-3 cm. 

 long, 1.5-2.7 cm. wide, coriaceous, rounded at the apex, cordate at the base, 

 shining above, dull beneath, bright-green, the midvein slender and impressed in 

 both surfaces, the few lateral veins more slender and similarly impressed, the 

 stout petiole only 1-1.5 mm. long; pedicels solitary or few together at defoliated 

 axils, about 2 mm. long; petals not seen; calyx-lobes ovate, acute, nearly 1 mrn. 

 long; young fruit ovoid, pointed, tipped by a style 0.5 mm. long; stigmas 2. 



. Rocky margins of ponds, Great Bahama at West End. Endemic. BAHAMA 



MAYTEXUS. 



2. Maytenus buxifolia (A. Rich.) Griseb. Cat, PI. Cub. 53. 1866. 



Monteverdia buxifolia A. Rich, in Sagra, Hist. Cub. 10 : 142, pi. 36. 1845. 



A shrub or a tree up to 10 m. high, the trunk up to 2.5 dm. in diameter, the 

 twigs gray, glabrous, becoming nearly terete. Leaves oblong to obovate or 

 oblong-spatulate, 1-4 cm. long, 4-20 mm. wide, coriaceous, obtuse or subtruncate 

 at the apex, obtuse, narrowed, or cuneate at the base, short-petioled, faintly 

 shining above, dull beneath, the midvein impressed on both sides, the lateral 

 venation obsolete; flowers few in the clusters; pedicels 1-4 mm. long; calyx- 

 lobes semiorbicular, 0.5 mm. long; petals greenish yellow, nearly 2 mm. long, 

 ovate, obtuse; fruit globose-obovoid, red or orange, 5-9 mm. long. 



Thickets and scrub-lands, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Great 

 Bahama to Caicos and Inagua : Cuba ; Hispaniola. BOX-LEAVED MAYTENUS. 



2. KHACOMA L. Syst. ed. 10, 896. 1759. 



iShrubs or low trees, with coriaceous small evergreen leaves, and small 

 perfect greenish axillary flowers. Calyx 4-5-lobed. Disk depressed, 4-5- 

 lobed. Petals 4 or 5, inserted under the disk. Stamens 4 or 5. Ovary 4- 

 celled; stigmas 4; ovules 1 in each cavity of the ovary, erect. Drupe with a 

 somewhat fleshy, thin exocarp and a bony stone. [Name used by Pliny for 

 some Old World plant.] About 12 species, of warm and tropical America. 

 Type species: Rhacoma Crossopetalum L. 



Leaves entire or crenulate. 



Inflorescence nearly sessile ; leaves entire. 1. R. coriacea. 



Inflorescence slender-peduncled ; leaves crenulate at least 



toward the apex. 2. R. Crossopetalum. 



Leaves spinulose-serrulate. 



Leaves long spinulose-toothed : fruit nearly sessile. 3. R. aquifolia. 



Leaves short spinulose-toothed ; fruit slender-pedicelled. 4. R. ilicifolia. 



1. Khacoma coriacea (Northrop) Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 71. 1904. 

 Crossopetalum coriaceum Northrop, Mem. Torr. Club 12: 48. 1902. 



A low shrub, 6 dm. high or less, the quadrangular twigs densely leafy, 

 glabrous. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, glabrous, obovate or oblong-obovate, 

 1-3 cm. long, 7-12 mm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the 

 base, entire, dull green on both sides ; inflorescence 1-5-flowered, sessile or 

 nearly so; calyx-lobes 4, half -orbicular ; petals 4, ovate to orbicular, reddish, 

 1 mm. long; disk 4-lobed; stamens 4; drupe obovoid, red, about 4 mm. long. 



Low coppices, sand-dunes and savannas, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera, 

 Great Guana. Endemic. BAHAMA RHACOMA. 



