14 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. CELASTRACEE. 
GYMINDA GRISHBACHII. 
Gyminda Grisebachii, Sargent, Garden and Forest. iv.4._Myginda pallens, Sargent, Forest Trees N. Am. 10th 
Myginda integrifolia, Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth, ov. Census U.S. ix. 38 (not Smith). 
Gen. et Spec. vil. 66 (not Lamarck, Dict. iv. 396).— De Myginda latifolia, Chapman, F/. 76 (not Swartz). — Tre- 
Candolle, Prodr. ii. 138. — Grisebach, Cut. Pl. Cub. 55. — lease, Trans. St. Louis Acad. v. 356. 
Sargent, Bot. Gazette, xi. 314.— Trelease, Truns. St. 
Louis Acad. vy. 356. 
A tree, growing sometimes to a height of twenty or twenty-five feet, with a trunk rarely more than 
six inches in diameter covered with thin brown bark tinged with red, the surface separating into thin 
minute scales. The branchlets become terete during their third season, and are then covered with thin 
slightly grooved and roughened light red-brown bark. The leaves are an inch and a half to two inches 
long, three quarters of an inch to an inch broad, and pale yellow-green. The flowers, which are pro- 
duced on the shoots of the year, appear in Florida from April to June. The fruit ripens in November. 
Gyminda Grisebachti is common and generally distributed through the islands of south Florida 
from the Marquesas to Upper Metacombe Key. It also inhabits Cuba and Porto Rico.’ A form” of 
this plant with smaller, less coriaceous, very glaucous leaves was found in Cuba*® by Charles Wright.* 
Gyminda Grisebachit was discovered in Florida by Dr. John L. Blodgett.° 
1 P. Sintenis, Plante Portoricenses, No. 532. Myginda latifolia, var. glaucescens, Grisebach, fem. Am. Acad. 
2 Gymnda Grisebachi, var. glaucescens, Sargent, Garden and viii. 171; Cat. Pl. Cub. 55. 
Forest, iv. 4. 3 Pl. Cub. No. 81a. 4 See i. 94. 5 See i. 33. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Pirate LIV. Gyminpa GRISEBACHII. 
A flowering branch of a staminate plant, natural size. 
A flowering branch of a pistillate plant, natural size. 
Diagram of a staminate flower. 
. Diagram of a pistillate flower. 
A staminate flower, enlarged. 
. Vertical section of a staminate flower, enlarged. 
a OR ON 
. A flower-bud, enlarged. 
. A pistillate flower, enlarged. 
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. Vertical section of a pistillate flower, enlarged. 
10. Cross section of a pistil, enlarged. 
11. An ovule, much magnified. 
12. A fruiting branch, natural size. 
13. Vertical section of a fruit, enlarged. 
14. Cross-section of a fruit. enlarged. 
15. Vertical section of a seed, enlarged. 
16. An embryo, much magnified. 
17. Stipules, enlarged. 
