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6. MAYTENUS. Flowers axillary. Calyx flat. Capsule 3-angled. Leaves alternate. 



7. PACHYSTIMA. Flowers axillary, perfect. Capsule 2-celled. Leaves opposite. 



TRIBE II. HIPPOCKATE^. Sepals and petals 3 - 5. Stamens 3, united below, 

 hypogynous. Albumen none. 



8. HIPPOCRATEA. Capsule 3-winged. Anthers transversely dehiscent. 



1. MYGINDA, Jacq. 



Flowers perfect. Sepals 4, united below. Petals 4, roundish. Stamens 4. 

 Ovary 4-celled, with a solitary auatropous ovule in each cell. Style short, 

 4-cleft. Drupe 1 -celled, 1-seeded. Seed erect. Embryo in thin albumen. 

 Cotyledons flat. Radicle inferior. Tropical shrubs, with small opposite 

 coriaceous leaves, and minute white or reddish flowers oil axillary forking 

 peduncles. 



1. M. Rhacoma, Swartz. Brandies slender, pubescent, angled; leaves 

 oblong, obtuse, crenate, nearly sessile, paler and often discolored beneath ; 

 peduncles filiform, shorter than the leaves, cymosely 2 -4-flowered ; calyx 

 lobes round, pubescent ; petals oval, concave, ciliate ; stigmas spreading > 

 drupe obovate. South Florida. A small shrub. Leaves -J'-l' long' 

 glabrous. 



2. M. ilicifolia, Lam. Brandies terete, pubescent ; leaves smooth, 

 round-ovate, spiny-toothed, short-petioled ; peduncles shorter than the leaves, 

 umbel lately 3 -4-flowered; calyx 4-toothed ; petals rounded ; drupe obovate, 

 pointed with the persistent style. South Florida. A small shrub. Leaves 

 i'-f long. 



3. M. latifolia, Swartz. Branches 4-angled ; leayes elliptical or obovate, 

 obtuse, crenate, smooth, nearly sessile ; peduncles few-flowered, forking, J' 

 or less long, shorter than the leaves ; style distinct, 4-lobed ; drupe obovate. 

 Pine Key, South Florida (Curliss). Shrub 10- 15 high. Leaves T-2' 

 long. Flowers and drupe red. 



2. GYMINDA, Sargent. 



Flowers dioacious, tetramerons, cymose. Disk cup-shaped, fleshy, 4-lobed. 

 Ovary 2-celled, with a single suspended ovule in each cell. Stigma sessile, 

 2-lobed. Drupe 1-seeded. Radicle superior. Embryo large, in thin albu- 

 men. A smooth shrub or small tree, the branchlets 4-angled. Leaves 

 coriaceous, opposite, obovate, short-petioled, the revolute margins obscurely 

 crenate. Cymes axillary, few-flowered. Drupe black. 



1. G. Grisebachii, Sargent. (Myginda? latifolia, 1st edit. M. integri- 

 folia, II BK.) Keys of South Florida. 



3. SCH^FFERIA, Jacq. 



Flowers disecious. Sepals 4, barely united at the base, rounded, 3-furrowed. 

 Petals 4, spatulate-oblong, much longer than the calyx. Stamens 4. Ovary 

 2-celled. Stigmas 2, sessile. Drupe dry, 2-celled, 2-seeded. Embryo in 

 oily albumen. Radicle inferior. Shrubs or trees, with alternate leaves, and 

 small greenish flowers in axillarv clusters. 



