1702 



MAYTENUS chilensis. 



Chilian Mayten. 



POLYGAMIA MO'SCECIA. 



Nat. ord. Celastrine^. R. Br. (Introduction to the Natural System of 

 Botany, p. 1 10.) 



MA YTENUS Juss. Flores polygami. Calyx 5-fidus, parvus, persistens. 

 Petala 5, sepalis alterna, patentissima. Stamina 5, petalis alterna. Discus 

 carnosus circa ovarium. Stigma sessile, 2-3-lobum. Capsula 1-4-valvis, valvis 

 medio septiferis, Semina in fundo pauca, arillata. Embryo planus in albumine 



carnoso. Arbuscul^ Peruviance aut Chilenses, foliis alternis, simplicihus, 



coriaceis, perennantibus, dentatis, floribus axillaribus albido virescentibus, 

 minimis. Capsulae scepius intus crocecc. De Cand. Prodr. 2. 9. 



M. chilensis ; foliis elliptico-oblongis basi attenuatis apice acuminatissimis niar- 



gine serratis. D. C. I. c. 

 Maiten. " Feuill. obs. 3. 39. t. 27." 

 Senacia Maytenus. Lam. illustr. n. 1712. 

 Celastrus Maytenus. Willd.sp.pl. 1. 1127. 

 Celastrus uncinatus. Fl. Peruv. 3. t. 230. Jig. A. 

 Maytenus boaria. Molina ? 

 Maytenus chilensis. Hooker and Arnott. in Bot. Miscell. 3. 171. 



Frutex sempervirens, in hortis orgyalis et ultra. Folia ovato-lanceolata, 

 tenuia, glanduloso-serrulata, exstipulata, glaberrima. Flores axillares, 

 fasciculati, herbacei, parvi, polygami. Masculorum calyx inferus, parvus, 

 5-dentatus ; petala 5, oblonga, obtusa, concava ; discus carnosus, 5-lobus ; 

 stamina 5, petalis alterna et breviora ; pistilli rudimentum. Foeminei in 

 horto nondum apparuere. Capsulse magnitudine pisi, turbinati, cinerei, 

 coriacei, loculicido-bivalves, dispermi. Semina 2, erecta, arillo croceo veslita. 



A handsome evergreen shrub, which has been growing 

 for some years in the garden of the Horticultural Society. 

 It succeeds best trained to the front of a south wall, but it 

 also survives the winter without even that slight protection. 

 It would, no doubt, prove perfectly hardy in the milder 

 parts of England and Ireland. 



* From Mayten, the vernacular name among the Chilenos, 

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