204 CALYCIFLOR^. 



1-celIed, 1-seeded: seed pendulous from the apex of 

 the cell, albummous. 



Shi-ubs, natives of the West- India Islands and South America: 

 branchlets tetragonal ; leaves opposite, subcoriaceous ; pedicels 

 axillary, generally 3-chotomously divided ; flowers minute. 

 Named, by Jacquin in honour of Counsellor Mygind of Vienna, 

 a patron of Botany. 



1. * Myginda Rhacoma. Blant-leaved Myginda. 

 Leaves lanceolato-ovate bluntish crenated subpetio- 

 late glabrous, peduncles dichotomous cymoso-umbell- 

 ated, style short filiform 4-lobed at the apex. 



Crossopetalum fruticulosum tenue, foliis ovatis tenuissime 

 denticulatis oppositis, racemis alaribus, Browne., 145. t. 16. f. 

 1. — Myginda Rhacoma, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Oca. 340. 



HAIB. Sandy places near the sea-shore. Near Old Harbour, 

 f' FL. Summer. 



- A shrub, 2-3 feet in height, branched. Leaves small, half 

 an inch in length, opposite, petiolate, stiff, scarcely nerved, 

 glabrous : petiole very short. Racemules axillary, shorter than 

 the leaves, 2-3-flowered : flowers minute, reddish. Calyx 4-fid, 

 with the tube short. Corolla deeply 4-partite with the divisions 

 fimbriated. Stamens 4, alternating with the petals. Ovary 

 free, ovate : style length of the tube of the corolla : stigma 4- 

 fid. Drupe small, size of a black pepper, scarlet : nut spherical. 

 — Swartz. 



I found this shrub very common in thickets, along the sea- 

 shore, at Old-Harbour. 



III. Ilex. Holli/. 



Calyx 4-5-toothed, persistent. Petals 4-5, hypo- 



gynous, alternate with the sepals, in some free, in 



other subcoalescing at the base to form a rotate corolla. 



Stamens 4-5, alternate with the petals, hypogynous. 



Ovary sessile, 4-celled, crowned with 4-5 subsessile 



stigmata, either distinct or united into 1. Berry 4— 



5-pyrene, with the nuclei oblong, umbilicated at the 



apex, and 1-seeded. Seed inverted ; albumen fleshy -, 



embryo nidulant at the apex. 



Evergreen shrubs : leaves generally coriaceous : peduncles 

 many-flowered. Name, according to Theis, from the Celtic 

 word AC sharp. 



1. Ilex Occidentalis. TVest-Tndia Holly. 

 Leaves obovato-elliptic rounded and usually emar- 



