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apice 4-fidus v. integer aut niillus, stigmatibus 4 sessilibus ; ovula in 

 qiioque loculo solitaria, ad basin loculi affixa, erecta, plana v. con- 

 vexa. Fructus drnpacens, indeliiscens, oblique obovatus v. oblique 

 globulosus, exocarpio tenui carnoso, endocarpio osseo v. crustaceo, 

 1-spermus, raro 2-spermus (et tum aequilaterus). Semen erectum, 

 exarillatum; testa laevis v. minutissime punctulato-reticulata, ad 

 ventrem linea dilatata incrassata ab hilo ad chalazam producta, 

 dein in ramos plures supra dorsum fere usque ad liilum redeuntes 

 divisa notabilis, tenuis; endospermium mediocre v. copiosum. Cotyle- 

 dones planae, radicula bene evoluta terete 'S — 6-plo longiores. — 

 Fruticuli, frutices v. arbores parvae, glabrae v. brevissime 

 pilösae. Rami liornotini quadranguli v. teretes. Stipulae sub- 

 nuUae v. minutae subulato - filiformes deciduae. Folia opposita 

 decussata, ternis v. alternis interdum intermixtis, raro omnia alterna, 

 integ'ra, crenata, spinoso-dentata v. sinuato-spinosa. Inflorescentiae 

 axillares, cymosae, nunc capituliformi-contractae, pedicellis ad v. supra 

 basin articulatis. Flores minuti rubri, raro virides v. albi. Fructus 

 rubri (an semper?). 



Species 8 antillanae, quarum unica etiam in Columbia occurrit. 



Myginda Jacq. 



Myginda Jacq. Enum. (1760) p. 12 et Sei. PI. Amer. p. 24 

 t. 16 (excl. patria St. Martin et descriptione gynaecei); Hook, in 

 Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. I (1862) p. 366 (p. p.); Loesener in 

 Eng-l.-Prantl Nat. Pflanzenfam. III 5 Nachtr. (1897) p. 224 (p. p.). 

 — Myginda sect. Uragoga Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. (1866) p. 55. — 

 Ehacoma Baill. Hist. Plant. VI (1877) p. 84 (p. p.); Loesener in 

 EngL-Prantl Nat. Pflanzenfam. III 5 (1892) p. 217 (p. p.). 



Flores liermapliroditi proterandri, 4-meri. Sepala in aesti- 

 vatione mediocriter imbricata, decussata, sub anthesi sese vix tegentia, 

 semiorbicularia, basi in receptaculum subplanum connata. Petala 

 in aestivatione solemniter coclileari-imbricata, sub anthesi horizon- 

 taliter patentia. Stamina in sinubus disci profundis inserta, per- 

 brevia, postremo reflexa; antherae didymae, loculis intus longitudi- 

 naliter dehiscentibus. Discus planiusculus 4-lobus v. 4-partitus, 

 Ovarium sessile disco subimmersum, 2-loculare; Stylus perbrevis, 

 apice stig-matoso obsolete v. manifeste bilobus, stigmatibus commis- 

 suralibus; ovula in quoque loculo solitaria, ad basin loculi affixa, 

 erecta, oblique globulosa. Fructus drupaceus, indeliiscens, oblique 

 obovatus, exocarpio tenui carnoso, endocarpio osseo, 1-spermus, 

 rarissime 2-spermus (et tum aequilaterus). Semen erectum, ex- 



