TRELEASE ILICINE.E & CELASTRACE^. 355 



acute at base, taper-pointed, low-serrate or crenate-serrate, the teeth 

 mostly with incurved points ; pedicels articulated below the middle. — Sp. 

 (1753), 196; Watson, Index, 161. — Borders of woods, fence-rows, &c., 

 Canada to North Carolina, west to Minnesota, Kansas, and New Mexico. 



MAYTENUS, Molina. — Shrub or small tree with coriaceous entire 

 leaves and small flowers solitary or clustered in their axils. — Storia Nat. 

 Chili, 152; Benth. & Hook. 'Gen. i. 364. 



I. M. PHYLLANTHOiDEs, Benth. — Glabrous ; leaves thick, dull, short- 

 petioled, abovate-cuneate or cuneate-spatulate, rounded or emarginate at 

 apex; flowers very short-stalked ; fruit contracted at base or substipitate. 

 — Bot. .Sulphur (1844), 54; Watson, 162. — Florida Keys. Also found in 

 Lower California, on the Rio Grande, in Mexico, Sic. 



MYGINDA, L. — Shrubs or small trees with mostly coriaceous leaves 

 and small flowers in axillary^cymes. — Gen. 178; Benth. & Hook. Gen. 

 i. 366. 



* Style slender, at leng'th somewliiit unilateral; drupe obovoid, seed erect. 

 *~ Leaves spinose-toothed. 



1. M. iLiciFOLiA, Lam. — A foot or two high, downy or glabrate ; leaves 

 half an inch long, round-ovate, pungently dentate-serrate and pointed, 

 contracted to a very short petiole; inflorescence shorter than the leaves, 

 the reddish flowers on slender ascending pedicels ; drupe 4 to 6 mm. long, 

 i-celled. — Diet, i v. (1797), 396; Watson, 162. — Southern Florida and the 

 Florida Keys. 



■^ ■*" Leaves not at all pungent. 



2. M. Rhacoma, Swartz. — Small shrub, glabrate or slightly downy; 

 leaves rather thin, under an inch long, obovate or elliptical-obovate, ob- 

 tuse or emarginate, sometimes mucronate, tapering to a short petiole, low 

 crenate-serrate; inflorescence half or two-thirds as long as the leaves, the 

 dark red flowers on slender ascending pedicels; drupe 6 mm. long, one- 

 celled. — Fl. Ind. Occ. i. (1797), 340; Watson, Index, 163. Rhacoma 

 crossopetalum. L. Atnoen. v. (1760), 393. — Florida Keys. 



3. M. fallens, .Smith. — Arborescent, glabrous or glabrate; leaves as 

 in the last or more ovate and often somewhat narrowed to the apex; inflo- 

 rescence nearly as long as the leaves, the red flowers on slender ascending 

 pedicels; drupe 4 to 6 mm. long, 2-celled. — Rees, Cycl. xxv. No. 4, fide 

 DC. Prodr. ii. 13; Chapman, Suppl. 612; Watson, 460; Sargent, Forest 

 Trees, 38. M. arborea, Shuttl. No. 121. — Florida Keys. — Teratoiogical 

 specimens appear to be rather common, with the inflorescence densely 

 compound and many flowers replaced by cc>nes of imbricated scales, appa- 

 rentlv the result of insect attacks. 



