Schceferia. CELASTRACE^. 399 



firm short-iDetioled leaves, and axillary few-flowered cymes shorter than the leaves. 

 — Gard. & For. iv. 4, & Silv. ii. 13 ; Losener in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. 

 iii. Ab. 5, 217. Mi/gmda § Gyminda, Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 55. — A single 

 subtropical American species. 



G. Grisebachii, Sargent. Leaves thick, pale, obovate, tapering to a very short petiole, 

 rounded above, crenulate to entire, glabrous, 1 to 2 inches long : inflorescence glabrous, 

 commonly shorter than the leaves, few-flowered, the lateral pedicels stout and divergent : 

 flowers greenish white : drupe 1-2-seeded, 2 to 4 lines long, bluish black. — Gard. & For. iv. 

 4, & Silv. ii. 14, t. 54. Mjiginda integrifolia, HBK. Nov. Gen. & Spec. vii. 66; DC. Prodr. 

 ii. 13 ; Griseb. 1. c. ; Sargent, Bot. Gaz. xi. 314, & Gard. & For. ii. 3.52 ; Trelease, 1. c. 356 ; 

 not Lam. M. pallens, Sargent, U. S. 10th Census, ix. 38, not Sm. M.'i latifolia, Chapm. 

 Fl. 76 ; Trelease, 1. c. 356 ; not Swartz. — Florida Keys. ( W. Ind.) 



6. RHACOMA, L. (A name of Pliny for the rhubarb ; the application to 

 the present genus not clear.) — Shrubs of various habit, ours with square or 

 4-lined glabrous or slightly downy twigs, rather small opposite entire to spiny- 

 margined leaves with minute stipules, and small axillary downy cymes. — Syst. 

 Nat. ed. 10, 896, & Gen. ed. 6, no. 144; Losener in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflan- 

 zenf. iii. Ab. 5, 217. Myginda, Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 1 {Mycinda), 1 2 ; L. Gen. 

 ed. 6, no. 178. — Of the tropical and subtropical American region. 



* Leaves pungently dentate. 



R. ilicifolia, Trelease, n. comb. Low shrub, glabrate or puberulent : leaves thin but firm : 

 veiny, ovate, acute at both ends, 6 to 9 lines long : inflorescence shorter than the leaves : 

 flowers red : drupe 2 or 3 lines long, 1-celled. — Myginda ilicifolia, Poir. Diet. iv. 396 ; Tre- 

 lease, 1. c. 355. — Everglades and keys of Florida. ( W". Ind.) The toothing of the leaves is 

 much shallower than in Cuban specimens referred here, our plant being nearest to M. aqui- 

 folia, Griseb., as represented by Wright, no. 2210. 



* * Leaves not at all pungent. 



R. CroSSOpetalum, L. Small shrub, glabrate or slightly downy : leaves rather thin, 

 ovate or elliptical to mostly obovate, tapering to the short petiole, obtuse or emarginate, 

 sometimes mucronate, shallowly crenate-serrate, less than an inch long : pedicels slender, 



ascending, shorter than the leaves : flowers dark red : drupe 2 to 3 lines long, red, 1-2-celled. 



Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 896, & Aman. Acad. v. 393. Myginda Rhacoma, Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 340 ; 

 Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 146; Chapm. Fl. 75; Trelease, 1. c. M. pallens, Trelease, I.e. (when 

 with 2-celled fruit). — Subtropical Florida and Florida Keys. (W. Ind.) 



7. SCH^FF^IRIA, Jacq. (Named after /. C. Schceffer, a German nat- 

 uralist of the last century.) — Shrubs with glabrous closely ribbed sometimes 

 spinescent twigs, alternate firm rugose-veiny entire subsessile glabrous leaves, 

 often fascicled on spurs, with setaceous or abortive stipules, and small few-flowered 

 fascicles axillary or seeming as if terminal on the spurs. — Enum. PI. Carib. 10, 

 & Stirp. Am. 259; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 367; Trelease, 1. c. 356; Sargent, 

 Silv. ii. 15 ; Losener in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. iii. Ab. 5, 219. — Of the 

 "West Indian and Mexican region. 



S. frutescens, Jacq. Small tree with rather slender zigzag green twigs : leaves elliptical 

 to spatulate-elliptical, acute at base, at length 1 to 2 inches long, the apex variously acute 

 or mucronate : pedicels about 3 lines long : drupe 2 lines long, red, mammillated, shortly 

 beaked. — Enum. PI. Carib. 33, & Stirp. Am. 259; Lam. 111. iii. 402, t. 809 ; Trelease, 1. c. 

 356 ; Sargent, Silv. ii. 17, t. 55. S. rompleta, Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 327, t. 7, f. A (Sloane, Jam. 

 ii. t. 209, f. 1). •'?■ huxifolia, Nutt. Sylv. ii. 42, t. 56. — Metacombe Key and Key West, Flor- 

 ida. (W. Ind.) 



