398 CELASTRACE^. Packistima. 



cuneate : peduncles and pedicels about a liue long, the former 1- to mostly 3-flowered : fruit 

 narrowly ovoid, 4 lines long. — Am. Monthly Mag. ii. 176, & Sylv. Tellur. 42; Gray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. viii. 378, 624; Trelease, 1. c. 354. Ilex ? Mi/rsinites, Pursh, Fl. i. 119. Myginda 

 myrtifolia, Nutt. Gen. i. 109; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 120, t. 41. Oreophila myrtifolia, Nutt. 

 in Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 259. — Brit. Columbia to California, New Mexico, and Colorado. 

 (Northern Mex.) 



P. Canbyi, Gray. Trailing and rooting, the branches a span or two high : leaves narrowly 

 elliptical or exception,illy obovate, slightly revolute, 5 to 10 lines long, the upper half ser- 

 rulate, obtuse, the base rounded or subcuneate : peduncles and pedicels filiform, frequently 

 2 lines long : otherwise similar to the preceding. — Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 623 ; Meehan, 

 Native Flowers, ser. 1, i. 173, t. 44 ; Chapm. Fl. ed. 2, 613 ; Trelease, 1. c. 354. — Mountains 

 of Virginia. A specimen, unquestionably of this species, labelled Jacksonville, Florida, 

 Brendel. 



3. CELASTRUS, L. Staff-tree. (An ancient Greek name, of un- 

 certain application.) — Twining shrubs with terete glabrous stems, alternate ser- 

 rate pinnatelj veined ample petioled deciduous leaves with very minute stipules, 

 and rather ample terminal and often axillary somewhat pedunculate panicles or 

 racemes, drooping in fruit. — Gen. no. 168 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 257 ; Gray, Gen. 

 111. ii. 185, t. 170 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 364 ; Baill. Hist. PI. vi. 36 ; Trelease, 

 Trans. St. Louis Acad. v. 352, 354 ; Losener in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. 

 iii. Ab. 5, 205, — Mostly of India and Eastern Asia, also reaching Australia and 

 Madagascar. 



C. scandens, L. (Shrubby or Climbing Bitter-sweet.) Climbing to a considerable 

 heiglit : the leaves more or less 2-ranked from torsion of the stem, ovate or exceptionally 

 obovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute at base, acuminate, low-serrate or crenate-serrate, glabrous, 

 2 to 4 inches long : pedicels articulated below the middle : fruit 6 lines in diameter, orange, 

 wlien dehiscent exposing the very showy crimson aril. — Spec. i. 196 ; Gffirtn. Fruct. ii. 85, 

 t. 95; Schk. Handb. i. 153, t. 47 ; Nouv. Duham. vi. 110, t. 33 ; Loud. Arb. ii. 502, f. 171 ; 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 257, 685 ; Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 186, t. 170 ; Schnizl. Ic. iv. t. 236, f. 1, 12-14, 

 27 ; Emerson, Trees & Shrubs Mass. ed. 2, ii. 545, with plate ; Trelease, 1. c. 354 ; Dipjjel, 

 1. c. 482; Lc'isener, 1. c. 191, f. 117 E. C. bullatus, L. Spec. i. 196. Euonymoides scandens, 

 Moench, Meth. 70. — Canada and New England to South Dakota and New Mexico. 



4. MAYTENUS, Mol. (Name from the Chilian word mayten.) — Shrubs 



with terete glabrous twigs, alternate mostly entire evergreen leaves with minute 



and evanescent stipules, and reduced few-flowered axillary cymes shorter than 



the leaves. — Mol. ace. to Juss. Gen. 449 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 364 ; Griseb. 



Cat. PI. Cub. 53 ; Losener in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. iii. Ab. 5, 205, & 



Engl. Jahrb. xv. Beibl. no. 38, 6. Haenkea, Ruiz & Pav. Prodr. 36, t. 6. 



Tricerma, Liebm. Vidensk. Meddel. 1853, 97. Monteverdia, A. Rich. Fl. Cub. 



i. 346. — Of the tropical or subtropical American region. 



M. phyllanthoid.es, Benth. Rather large shrub : leaves pale, thick, dull, obovate, acute 

 at base, very obtuse or somewhat emarginate, entire or slightly repand above, glabrous, an 

 inch long, the petiole about a line long : flowers very short-stalked : capsule 4 to 6 lines 

 long, contracted at base or substipitate, deep red, somewhat glaucous. — Bot. Sulph. 54; 

 Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 47; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., v. 155; Chapm. Fl. 77; Hemsl. Biol. 

 Centr.-Am. Bot. i. 189; Trelease, 1. c. 355. Tricerma crassi folium, Liebm. Vidensk. Meddel. 

 1853, 98. — Cape Sable, Pumpkin Key, Cedar Keys, and Key West, Florida. (Mex., Lower 

 Calif.) 



5. G-YMINDA, Sargent. (Name by transposition from Myginda.) — Shrub 

 or small tree with more or less 4-angled glabrous twigs, opposite nearly entire 



