•JOIG 



MAMMll.lAXA 



A. /•inii.r irrticiUale al /<(j,s7 on .lonw /«ii7 of the rachis. 

 Maripa, nnuie i,.l//<i/('<i .Wdri/xi, Mart. EiKjtcropluriiix 

 Miinjxi. Kuntzc^. 8t. tliii-k, vory tjill: Ivs. 15 ft. Idiik; 

 st'gius. swonl-sliaiHHl, aculi', iliv;nii'ato, tlio Idwoi- ',i ft. 

 loup, 2 in. wulo, uraduallv diminishing upwanl; s))a(lix 

 anil spatlie vory woody, tho i\s. very laim' for a pahn, 

 friHiuontly 'jin. long. Brazil. 



2339. Mazimiliana regia. 



AA. Pinnx in opposite dusters. 

 regia, Mart. (Attalea amygddlina, TTRK. Englerophde- 

 nii riffia, Kuntze). Fig. 2339. St. l.-") -iO ft. high, 12-16 

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

 the persistent petiole bases : Ivs. 1.5 ft. long; scgms. more 

 slender, paperj', disposed in opposite chisters, the upper 

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

 stalk stout: fls. showy and the fibrous fr. al)out 2 in. 

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



N. TAYUJK.f 



MAXIMILIANEA. liixacese. An unfortunate con- 

 fusion ha.s arisen in the apphcation of this name. As 

 Maximiliana { 1H24), it is accepted for a genus of palms 

 (see above); under the sliglit variation Maximilianea 

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

 III. 6:312, for tho bixaceous genus usually knowTi as 

 Cochlo.spennuiii (Kunth, 1822). Different ways out 

 of the (iifficulty have been suggested. One is to sup- 

 plant the palm Maximiliana with a new name (Knglero- 

 nhd'nix), 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 ('ochlospermum; this conforms 

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

 & Frantl, Naohtr. I. .")6; O. Kuiitze, Kc^v. (Jen. PI. I. 

 44.) Still another is to allow both the Maximilian 

 genera to stand, seeing that they are ditTerently spelled; 

 but they arc so near alike that conflict would result. 

 Another alternative is to revise the name Wittelsbachia 

 (1824; for Cochlospermum, seeing that the hMc.r is 

 anteflated by the Cochlospermum of Lagasca (1818); 

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

 Ifwpermum is retainefl in the "noinina conservanda" of 

 the Vienna Cfxie. Recent authoritieji make the genus 

 the type of the family Cochloapermncey. 



Maximilianea, or Cochlospermum, comprises about 

 12-1.5 trees, shrubs and subshnibs in tropical and sub- 

 tropical regions of both hemispheres, littl(^ known as 

 horticnjltural .subjects: Ivs. alternate, digitate or pal- 

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



MAYTENUS 



in fivscioles, racemes or panicles from tho upper axils or 

 terminal, perfect ; seitals ."i, lUK'tiual, imbricate; ])etals 5, 

 larg<'; stamens very manv, free, with long anthers; 

 ovary 1 -celled, with 3-.'i placenta^, the style imdivided 

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

 M. hibiscddes, Kuntze, Cochlospermum hibiscoides, 

 IIUK. (('. SI rrdlij'oliiiiii, DC.). Shrul>: Ivs. palmatilid 

 into 7 loug-:ii'Uininate sharply serrate lobes lighter col- 

 oreil on the imder side, the ba.sal lobes small: fls. vory 

 largo and showy, yellow, with oval or obovatc doc])ly 

 notched ju-lals; the numerous stamens incurved into a 

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

 Indies. — DtTorod in S. Calif. Hemsley's plate (Biol. 

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



M. Gossypium, Kuntze, or Cochlospermum Gos- 

 sypium, DC. {Homlxix (Idstii'/piuiii, Linn.), is apjiarently 

 not in the trade, although recorded in horticultural 

 literatiwe. India: a .small imarmed tree: Ivs. pal- 

 malely H-o-lobed, with slender jK-tiolo, acute lobes, 

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

 in fow-tld. terminal iianiclcs; petals obovatc, notched : 

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



MAXIMOWlCZIA: Schimndra. 



MAY APPLE: I'n,l„,il,yllum: also Passijtora. 



MAYBERRY, JAPANESE GOLDEN: Rubus palmatus. 



MAYFLOWER of English literature is the same as 

 the hawthorn, Cralagus Oxyacantha; of New Eng- 

 land is Epigwa repcns; of the more western states, 

 Hepalica. 



MAYTENUS (from a Chilean name). Celastracex. 

 Trees and shrubs in tropical and temperate America, 

 one of which is cultivated. 



Botanically they are near the common bittersweet, 

 Cclastrus scanilcns. Aside from habit, Mayt.onus differs 

 from Celastrus in having the ovary confluent with the 

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

 instead of 2-ovule(l. It cimsists 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- 



none or col- ,^ Jiif \X m. ..Sil/) 



umnar: caps, 

 leathery, lo- 

 culicidally 

 2-3-valved. 

 — Species 70 

 or more, S. 

 Amer., tropi- 

 cal and tem- 

 perate, and 

 Indies. 



Boaria, Molina {M. 

 chilcnxU, DC). May- 

 ten, r'ig. 2340. Lvs. 

 f)vate-lanc(^olate, thin, 

 glandular -serrate, ghi- 

 brous: fls. small, axil- 

 lary, clustered, polygSr 

 mous, th(! males with 5 

 caly.x-teeth, petals and 

 stamens: caps, tho 

 size of a [lea, 2-v;ilved, 

 2-seeded. Chile. I5.R. 

 1702.— A beautiful 

 evergretai tree, of 

 graceful habit; in Calif. 

 15-25 ft. high, but in 



2340. Maytenus Boaria, showing 

 the dehiscing fruit. 



