50 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 
lished, appears in Patrick Browne’s Natural History of Jamaica} 
1881 by Mr. A. H. Curtiss.” 
RHAMNACEL. 
It was first detected in Florida in 
Colubrina reclinata, according to Aiton,’ was cultivated in the Chelsea Botanic Garden in 1758 
by Philip Miller.’ 
1 Rhamnus arborescens minor foliis ovatis venosis, pedunculis um- 
bellulatis alarihus, fructibus sphericis, 172, t. 29, f. 2. 
2 Allen Hiram Curtiss, a native of Central Square, Oswego 
County, New York, was born in 1845, and moved to Virginia in 
1862 and to Florida in 1875. 
uable botanical collections in southern Virginia and in Florida, 
Mr. Curtiss has made large and val- 
especially in the extreme southern part of the State, which he has 
visited several times as an agent of the United States government 
and of the American Museum of Natural History, and in which 
he has found many plants, including a number of tropical trees, 
not known in the territory of the United States before his time. 
His sets of dried plants are found in the principal herbaria of the 
United States and of Europe. 
3 Hort. Kew. i. 265. 4 See i. 38. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Piate LXVI. CoLuBRINA RECLINATA. 
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. A nutlet, enlarged. 
. A seed, enlarged. 
. A flowering branch, natural size. 
. Diagram of a flower. 
A flower, enlarged. 
. Vertical section of a flower, enlarged. 
An ovule, much magnified. 
. A fruiting branch, natural size. 
. Vertical section of a fruit, enlarged. 
. A fruit, cut transversely. 
. An embryo, much magnified. 
