680 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



7. MAYTENUS Molina, Sagg. Stor. Nat. Chil. 177. 1782. 



Trees or shrubs; leaves alternate, persistent, entire or toothed; stipules 

 minute, deciduous; flowers polygamous, paniculate or solitary, axillary; caljrx 

 5-parted; petals 5, spreading; stamens 5; capsule coriaceous, 1 to 3-celled; 

 seed covered with a fleshy aril. 



Leaves pale green, very thick and fleshy, usually entire ; flowers fasciculate. 



1. M. phyllanthoides. 

 Leaves bright green, not fleshy, crenate or serrate; flowers cymose or panicu- 

 late. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute at base 2. M. repandus. 



Leaves oblong-elliptic to elliptic-oval, rounded or very obtuse at base. 



3. M.trichotomus. 



1. Maytenus phyllanthoides Beuth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 54. 1844. 



Tricerma crassifolium Liebm. Nat. For. Kjobenhavn Vid. Medd. 1853: 98. 

 1854. 



Baja California and Sonora to Yucatan and Puebla; type from Magdalena 

 Bay, Baja California. Southern Florida ; Cuba. 



Shrub or small tree, 1 to 7.5 meters high, glabrous; leaves mostly obovate 

 or broadly obovate, 2 to 4 cm. long, acute or obtuse at base, rounded at apex, 

 the venation obscure; flowers pedicellate; petals 1.5 mm. long; fruit obovoid, 

 7 to 9 mm. long; seeds 1 or 2, covered with a red aril. " Mangle dulce " (Baja 

 California) ; " mangle" (Sonora) ; " aguabola," "mangle aguabola " (Sinaloa, 

 Puebla, Seler). 



The plant usually, but not always, grows along sea beaches, in places that 

 are submerged at high tide. The wood is used for fuel. Seler states that the 

 leaves are employed as a remedy for scurvy and toothache. 



2. Maytenus repandus Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou 31^: 450. 1858. 

 Oaxaca, Chiapas, and perhaps Veracruz ; type from Tolutla, Chiapas. 

 Glabrous; leaves petiolate, 3 to 7 cm. long, acuminate, crenate-serrate ; 



inflorescence few or many-flowered. 



3. Maytenus trichotomus Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou 31': 451. 1858. 

 Veracruz, Oaxaca, and Chiapas ; type from Jitatole, Chiapas. 



Shrub (scandent) ; leaves short-petiolate, 5.5 to 10 cm. long, abruptly 

 acuminate, glabrous, ci'enate-serrate or nearly entire; panicles half as long 

 as the leaves or shorter ; fruit subglobose, 1 cm. long. 



8. GYMINDA Sarg. Gard. & For. 4: 4. 1891. 



1. Gyminda latifolia (Swartz) Urban, Symb. Antill. 5: 80. 1904. 



Myginda latifolia Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 39. 1788. 



Tamaulipas and Veracruz. Florida ; West Indies. 



Glabrous tree, sometimes 9 meters high, with a trunk 20 cm. in diameter ; 

 bark thin, reddish brown ; leaves opposite, persistent, short-petiolate, usually 

 obovate or broadly obovate, 2 to 6 cm. long, obtuse or rounded at apex, entire 

 ©r crenulate ; flowers greenish, dioecious, in axillary cymes ; calyx 4-parted ; 

 petals 4, 1.5 to 2 cm. long; fruit a black drupe, 5 to 8 mm. long; wood dense, 

 very dark brown, its specific gravity about 0.90. " Mala mujer," " cocorron- 

 cito " (Porto Rico). 



The English name is " false boxwood." 



9. RHACOMA L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 896. 1759. 



Trees or shrubs; leaves opposite, or some of them alternate, entire or 

 toothed ; stipules small ; flowers minute, cymose, axillary ; calyx usually 



