736 CELASTKACEAE 



4-5, inserted under the disk, reflexed. Stamens 4-5, between the lobes of the disk. Ovary 

 4-celled, merging into the disk : stigmas 4. Ovules solitary and erect in each cavity. 

 Drupe with little or no pulp, 1-celled, with a crustaceous or bony stone. Seeds with or 

 without arils. 



Leaf -blades spiny-toothed. 1. C. Floridanum. 



Leaf-blades crenate or entire. 2. C. austrinum. 



1. Crossopetalum Floridanum Gardner. A small straggling or prostrate shrub, with 

 branches 2-4 dm. long, the twigs terete, pubescent. Leaves merely opposite ; blades oval 

 or ovate, 10-15 mm. long, veiny, coarsely serrate with bristle-tipped teeth, and bristle- 

 tipped at the apex, rounded at the base, short-petioled : peduncles shorter than the leaves : 

 sepals 4, persistent : petals 4, oblong-orbicular : stamens 4 : drupes obovoid, 3-4 mm. long, 

 oblique, apiculate. 



In sand or on coral rock, southern peninsular Florida and the Keys. Also in St. Domingo. 



2. Crossopetalum austrinum Gardner. A' shrub or tree 6 m. tall, with 4-angled 

 brownish or ash-colored twigs. Leaves opposite or whorled ; blades obovate, or rarely a 

 few somewhat elliptic, 1-4 cm. long, lightly crenate, at least toward the mucronate apex, 

 narrowed at the base, smooth and glabrous : peduncles about 1 cm. long : sepals 4, rounded : 

 petals 4, oval : stamens 4 : drupes somewhat oblique, 5-6 mm. long, red. 



In sand, southern peninsular Florida. 



6. GYMINDA 



Glabrous evergreen dioecious shrubs or trees, with a pale bark and 4-angled branch- 

 lets. Leaves opposite : blades elongated, entire or slightly toothed above the middle, 

 rounded or emarginate at the apex : stipules caducous. Flowers dioecious, in axillary 

 cymes. Sepals 4 (rarely 3), rounded, persistent, imbricated. Disk cup-shaped, 4-lobed, 

 filling the hypanthium. Petals 4, reflexed, entire, longer than the sepals. Stamens 4, ex- 

 serted : filaments slender, converging. Ovary elongated, confluent with the disk, 2-celled ; 

 a rudimentary 2-cleft column in the staminate flowers : stigmas sessile, 2-lobed. Ovules 

 solitary, suspended. Drupe-like fruit with a thin pulp and a 2-celled, crustaceous stone. 

 Seeds pendulous. FALSE BOXWOOD. 



1. Gyminda Grisebachii Sarg. An evergreen glabrous shrub or small tree 1-7 m. 

 tall, with a maximum trunk diameter of 15 cm. Leaf -blades leathery, obovate or elliptic- 

 obovate, 2-4 cm. long, rounded or retuse at the apex, slightly revolute, nearly sessile : 

 cymes few-flowered on peduncles usually less than 1 cm. long : sepals broadly ovate, obtuse : 

 corolla 4-5 mm. broad : petals oblong or obovate-oblong, 1.5-2 mm. long, obtuse, spread- 

 ing or recurved : stamens shorter than the petals : drupe oblong or ovoid, 7-8 mm. long, 

 slightly apiculate, bluish black : seeds 1-2, suspended. \_Myginda latifolia Chapm., not 

 Sw.] 



On islands and Keys of southern Florida. Also in the West Indies. Spring. The form with leaf- 

 blades about 2 cm. long and glaucous above, is O. Grisebachii glaucifolia (Griseb.) Sudw. 



7. SCHAEFFERIA Jacq. 



Rigid glabrous dioecious shrubs or small trees, with a pale bark, the branches terete. 

 Leaves alternate or fascicled : blades leathery, entire. Flowers dioecious, sessile or pedi- 

 celled, clustered in the axils of the leaves. Sepals 4, broad, imbricated. Disk small, 

 knob-like in the staminate flowers. Petals 4, hypogynous, inserted under the disk. Sta- 

 mens 4, opposite the sepals : filaments incurved. Ovary 2-celled : style very short or want- 

 ing : stigma 2-lobed. Ovules solitary, erect. Drupe-like fruit with little or no pulp, 2- 

 celled, with a horny stone and a tuberculate coat. Seed one in each cavity, with an aril. 



Leaf -blades cuneate, 5-12 mm. long. 1. S. cuneifolia- 



Leaf-blades oval to elliptic-oblanceolate, 4-6 cm. long. 2. S. frutescens. 



1. Schaefferia cuneifolia A. Gray. A rigid glabrous evergreen shrub, with a much 

 branched stem, 1-2 m. tall. Leaf -blades leathery, clustered, obovate-cuneate, 5-12 mm. long, 

 obtuse or notched at the apex, pale green, more or less prominently reticulated, sessile: cymes 

 contracted, the flowers clustered : calyx sessile ; sepals 4, suborbicular : corolla greenish, 

 5-6 mm. broad : petals oblong, obtuse : drupes subglobose, 4 mm. in diameter, deep scarlet. 



On prairies, Texas and New Mexico to northern Mexico. 



2. Schaefferia frutescens Jacq. An evergreen glabrous shrub or tree, reaching a 

 height of 12 m. , with a maximum trunk diameter of nearly 3 dm. Leaf -blades leathery, ellip- 

 tic, oval, elliptic-obovate or elliptic-oblanceolate, 4-6 cm. long, pale green, acute or retuse, 



