204 CALYCIFLORJE. 



1-celled, 1-seeded: seed pendulous from the apex of 

 the cell, albuminous. 



Shrubs, natives of the West-India Islands and South America: 

 branchlets tetragonal ; leaves opposite, subcoriaceous ; pedicels 

 axillary, generally 3-chotomously divided ; flowers minute. 

 Named, by Jacquin in honour of Counsellor Mygind of Vienna, 

 a patron of Botany. 



1 . * Myginda Rhacoma. Blunt-leaved Myginda. 



Leaves lanceolato-ovate bluntish crenated subpetio- 

 late glabrous, peduncles dichotomous cymoso-umbell- 

 ated, style short filiform 4-lobed at the apex. 



Crossopetalum fruticulosum tenue, foliis ovatis tenuissime 

 denticulatis oppositis, racemis alaribus, Browne, 145. t. 16. f. 

 1. Myginda Rhacoma, Swartz, FL Ind. Occ. 340. 



H AB. Sandy places near the sea-shore. Near Old Harbour. 

 - FL. Summer. 



A shrub, 2-3 feet in height, branched. Leaves small, half 

 an inch in length, opposite, petiolate, stiff, scarcely nerved, 

 glabrous : petiole very short. Racemules axillary, shorter than 

 the leaves, 2-3-flo\vered : flowers minute, reddish. Calyx 4-fid, 

 with the tube short. Corolla deeply 4-partite with the divisions 

 fimbriated. Stamens 4, alternating with the petals. Ovary 

 free, ovate : style length of the tube of the corolla : stigma 4- 

 fid. Drupe small, size of a black pepper, scarlet : nut spherical. 

 Swartz. 



I found this shrub very common in thickets, along the sea- 

 shore, at Old-Harbour. 



III. Ilex. Holly. 



Calyx 4-5-toothed, persistent. Petals 4-5, hypo- 

 gynous, alternate with the sepals, in some free, in 

 other subcoalescing at the base to form a rotate corolla. 

 Stamens 4-5, alternate with the petals, hypogynous. 

 Ovary sessile, 4-celled, crowned with 4-5 subsessile 

 stigmata, either distinct or united into 1. Berry 4- 

 5-pyrene, with the nuclei oblong, umbilicated at the 

 apex, and 1-seeded. Seed inverted ; albumen fleshy ; 

 embryo nidulant at the apex. 



Evergreen shrubs: leaves generally coriaceous: peduncles 

 many-flowered. Name, according to Theis, from the Celtic 

 word AC sharp. 



1. Ilex Occidentalis. West-India Holly. 

 Leaves obovato-elliptic rounded and usually cmar- 



