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2. MAYTENUS Molina. Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, persistent: 

 blades leathery, entire or toothed. Flowers polygamous or dioecious, solitary 

 or clustered. Sepals 5. Petals 5. Stamens 5, borne beneath the disk. 

 Capsules erect. 



1. M. phyllanthoides Benth. Small tree or shrub: leaf -blades obovate to 

 oblong-oblanceolate, 2-4 em. long: hypanthium broadly turbinate: corolla 2-3 

 mm. broad : capsules obovoid, 8-12 mm. in diameter, red. — All year. 



The Maytends grows in hammocks along the lower portion of the eastern 

 coast of Florida and on the Florida Kevs. The wood has not yet been studied. 

 (Cuba.) 



3. BHACOMA L, Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, opposite, or 

 whorled, persistent: blades entire or toothed. Flowers perfect, few together 

 or solitary in axillary peduncled cymes. Sepals 4 or 5. Petals 4 or 5. Stamens 

 4 or 5, borne between the lobes of the disk. Drupe smooth. 



1. B. Crossopetalum L. Small tree or shrub, with glabrous twigs: leaf-blades 

 obovate or rarely somewhat elliptic, 1-4 cm. long, shallowly crenate or entire: 

 cymes long-peduncled : petals oval or orbicular, 1 mm. long or less: drupes 

 obovoid, 5-6 mm. long, red. — All year. 



The Rhacoma grows in hammocks on the southern portion of the eastern coast 

 of Florida and on the Florida Keys. The wood has not yet been studied. (W. I.) 



4. GYMINDA Sarg. Shrubs or trees, the twigs 4-angled. Leaves oppo- 

 site, persistent: blades mostly entire. Flowers dioecious, in axillary cymes. 

 Sepals 4, or rarely 3. Petals 4, or rarely 3. Stamens 4, borne without a disk. 

 Stigmas disk-like. Drupe smooth. 



1. G. latifolia (Sw.) Urban. Small tree or shrub: leaf -blades obovate to 

 elliptic-obovate, 2-4 cm. long, bright-green, (or glaucous above in G. latifolia 

 glauci folia) : petals oblong to obovate-oblong. 1.5-2 mm. long: drupes oblong 

 to ovoid, 7-8 mm. long, bluish-black. — All year. 



The False-boxwood grows in hammocks on the Florida Keys. The dark- 

 brown or nearly black heart-wood is close-grained, very heavy, and hard. (W. I.) 



5. SCHAEFFEEIA Jacq. Shrubs or trees, the twigs terete. Leaves 

 alternate, persistent: blades entire. Flowers dioecious, in axillary clusters. 

 Sepals 4. Petals 4. Stamens 4, borne without the disk. Stigmas recurved. 

 Drupes tuberculate. 



1. S. frutescens Jacq. Small tree or shrub: leaves not clustered; blades ellip- 

 tic, oval, elliptic-obovate or elliptic-oblanceolate, 4-6 cm. long, shining above: 

 flowers manifestly pedicelled: drupes about 5 mm. in diameter. — All year. 



The Boxwood grows in hammocks along the lower portion of the eastern coast 

 of Florida, and on the Everglade Keys and Florida Keys. The yellow heart-wood 

 is close-grained, heavy, and hard. Also known as Yellow-wood. (ir. /. ) 



Family 5. AESCULACEAE. Buckeye Family. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite : blades palmately compound. 

 Flowei's polygamous, in terminal racemes or panicles. Calyx of 5 partially 

 united sepals. Corolla of 4 or 5 unequal clawed petals. Androecium of 

 5-8 stamens. Gynoecium of 3 united carpels. Fruit a leatbeiy locu- 

 licidal cai^sule. 



1. AESCTJLUS L. Shrubs or trees. Leaf-blades palmately 5-9-foliolate. 

 Petals with their claws mostly in the calyx-tube. Filaments slender. Capsule 

 smooth or echinate. — Buckeye. Horse-chestnut. 



