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MAXIMILIANA 



MAYTENUS 



A. Pinnse vertidllate at least on some part of the rachis. 

 Maripa, Drude (Attalea Maripa, Mart. Englerophomix 

 Man-pa, Kuntze). St. thick, very tall: Ivs. 15 ft. long; 

 segms. sword-shaped, acute, divaricate, the lower 3 ft. 

 long, 2 in. wide, gradually diminishing upward: spadix 

 and spathe very woody, the fls. very large for a palm, 

 frequently %in. long. Brazil. 



2339. Maximiliana regia. 



AA. Pinnse in opposite clusters. 



regia, Mart. (Attalea amygddlina, HBK. Englerophoe- 

 nix regia, Kuntze). Fig. 2339. St. 15-20 ft. high, 12-16 

 in. thick at the base, 3 times as thick above because of 

 the persistent petiole bases: Ivs. 15 ft. long; segms. more 

 slender, papery, disposed in opposite clusters, the upper 

 as broad as the lower: spadix about 12 in. long, the 

 stalk stout: fls. showy and the fibrous fr. about 2 in. 

 long. Brazil. G.C. III. 1: suppl. Feb. 12. 



N. TAYLOR, f 



MAXIMILIANEA. Bixdcese. An unfortunate con- 

 fusion has arisen in the application of this name. As 

 Maximiliana (1824), it is accepted for a genus of palms 

 (see above); under the slight variation Maximilianea 

 (1819), it is adopted by Warburg in Engler & Prantl, 

 III. 6:312, for the bixaceous genus usually known as 

 Cochlospermum (Kunth, 1822). Different ways out 

 of the difficulty have been suggested. One is to sup- 

 plant the palm Maximiliana with a new name (Englero- 

 phcenix), and to hold Maximilianea in place of Coch- 

 lospermum. Another is to allow the palm name to 

 stand, being well established, and for the bixaceous 

 plants to fall back on Cochlospermum; this conforms 

 better to usage and is the more practicable. (See Engler 

 & Prantl, Nachtr. I. 56; O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. I. 

 44.) Still another is to allow both the Maximilian 

 genera to stand, seeing that they are differently spelled ; 

 but they are so near alike that conflict would result. 

 Another alternative is to revise the name Wittelsbachia 

 (1824) for Cochlospermum, seeing that the latter is 

 antedated by the Cochlospermum of Lagasca (1818); 

 but this way of escape need not concern us here. Coch- 

 lospermum is retained in the "nomina conservanda" of 

 the Vienna Code. Recent authorities make the genus 

 the type of the family Cochlospermacese. 



Maximilianea, or Cochlospermum, comprises about 

 12-15 trees, shrubs and subshrubs in tropical and sub- 

 tropical regions of both hemispheres, little known as 

 horticultural subjects: Ivs. alternate, digitate or pal- 

 mately parted: fls. large and showy, yellow, pedicelled, 



in fascicles, racemes or panicles from the upper axils or 

 terminal, perfect; sepals 5, unequal, imbricate; petals 5, 

 large; stamens very many, free, with long anthers; 

 ovary 1-celled, with 3-5 placentae, the style undivided 

 and slender: caps. 3-5-valved, with numerous seeds. 

 M. hibiscodes, Kuntze, Cochlospermum hibiscoides, 

 HBK. (C. serratifolium, DC.). Shrub: Ivs. palmatifid 

 into 7 long-acuminate sharply serrate lobes lighter col- 

 ored on the under side, the basal lobes small: fls. very 

 large and showy, yellow, with oval or obovate deeply 

 notched petals; the numerous stamens incurved into a 

 ball-like body in the center. S. Mex. to Colombia, W. 

 Indies. Offered in S. Calif. Hemsley's plate (Biol. 

 Cent.-Amer.) shows a brilliant fl. 6 in. across. 



M. Gossypium, Kuntze, or Cochlospermum Gos- 

 sypium, DC. (Bombax Gossypium, Linn.), is apparently 

 not in the trade, although recorded in horticultural 

 literature. India: a small unarmed tree: Ivs. pal- 

 mately 3-5-lobed, with slender petiole, acute lobes, 

 tomentose beneath: fls. 4-5 in. diam., golden yellow, 

 in few-fld. terminal panicles; petals obovate, notched : 

 caps. 2-3 in. long. L. H. B. 



MAXIMOWfCZIA: Schizandra. 



MAY APPLE: Podophyllum; also Passiflora. 



MAYBERRY, JAPANESE GOLDEN: Rubus palmatus. 



MAYFLOWER of English literature is the same as 

 the hawthorn, Cratsegus Oxyacantha; of New Eng- 

 land is Epigsea repens; of the more western states, 

 Hepatica. 



MAYTENUS (from a Chilean name). Celastraceae. 

 Trees and shrubs in tropical and temperate America, 

 one of which is cultivated. 



Botanically they are near the common bittersweet, 

 Celostrus scandens. Aside from habit, Maytenus differs 

 from Celastrus in having the ovary confluent with the 

 disk instead of free, and the cells are mostly 1-ovuled 

 instead of 2-ovuled. It consists of evergreen, unarmed 

 plants: Ivs. alternate, often 2-ranked, stalked, leathery, 

 serrate: fls. small, white, yellow or 

 reddish, axillary, solitary, clustered 

 or cymose; calyx 5-cut; petals and 

 stamens 5, the latter inserted under 

 the disk; disk orbicular, wavy-mar- 

 gined; style 

 none or col- 

 umnar: caps, 

 leathery, lo- 

 culicidally 

 2-3-valved. 

 Species 70 

 or more, S. 

 Amer., tropi- 

 cal and tem- 

 perate, and 

 Indies. 



Boaria, Molina (M. 

 chilensis, DC.). MAY- 

 TEN. Fig. 2340. Lvs. 

 ovate-lanceolate, thin, 

 glandular -serrate, gla- 

 brous: fls. small, axil- 

 lary, clustered, polyga- 

 mous, the males with 5 

 calyx-teeth, petals and 

 stamens: caps, the 

 size of a pea, 2-valved, 

 2-seeded. Chile. B.R. 

 1702. A beautiful 

 evergreen tree, of 

 graceful habit; in Calif. 

 15-25 ft. high, but in 



2340. Maytenus Boaria, showing 

 the dehiscing fruit. 



