CELASTRACE.E 677 



1 . Maytenus phyllanthoides Benth. 



Leaves oblong-obovate to elliptic, rounded and rarely emarginate or acute at apex, 

 gradually narrowed and cuneate at base and entire, deeply tinged with red when they 

 unfold and at maturity, l'~H' long and %'-l' wide, with thickened often slightly undulate 

 margins, a slender midrib, obscure primary veins, and conspicuous reticulate veinlets; 

 petioles stout, \'-\' in length. Flowers usually solitary or in compact fascicles, short- 

 stalked, about ^ in diameter; calyx-lobes rounded at apex, often persistent under the 

 fruit, reddish, shorter than the white petals; ovary 3-4-celled. Fruit solitary, short- 



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stalked, broad-obovoid, 4-angled, rounded and minutely mucronate at apex, abruptly 

 narrowed below, bright red, \'-\' long and broad, 1-celled, 3-4-valved, the valves opening 

 to the base, ridged down the inner surface with a low ridge developed from the dissepi- 

 ment, 2-4-seeded; seed ellipsoid, acute at the ends, T y long, surrounded at base by an open 

 bright red aril. 



A round-topped tree, rarely 20 high, with a trunk l-2 in diameter (teste J. K. Small), 

 and slender alternate glabrous pale gray branchlets; usually a low shrub. 



Distribution. Florida, west coast, Captiva Island, Lee County, to the neighborhood 

 of Cape Sable; Cocoanut Grove, Dade County, and on many of the southern keys; on 

 bluffs of Matagorda Bay near Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas; in northern Mexico 

 and Lower California; probably of its largest size in Florida on Sands Key and on Cap- 

 tiva Island. 



3. CANOTIA Torr. 



A glabrous leafless tree, with light brown deeply furrowed bark, stout terete alternate 

 branches terminating in rigid, pale green and striate spines, their base and those of the 

 peduncles surrounded by black triangular persistent cushion-like processes minutely 

 papillose on the surface. Flowers perfect, on slender spreading pedicels jointed below the 

 middle, 3-7 together, in short-stemmed fascicles or corymbs near the end of the branches, 

 from the axils of minute ovate subulate bracts; calyx 5-lobed, minute, persistent, much 

 shorter than the oblong obtuse white hypogynous petals imbricated in the bud, reflexed 

 at maturity above the middle, deciduous; stamens 5, hypogynous, opposite the lobes of 

 the calyx; filaments awl-shaped, rather shorter than the petals, persistent on the fruit; 

 anthers oblong, cordate, minutely apiculate, attached below the middle, grooved on the 

 back; ovary raised upon and confluent with a fleshy slightly 10-angled gynophore, papil- 

 lose-glandular on the surface, 5-celled, the cells opposite the petals, terminating in a fleshy 

 elongated style; stigma slightly 5-lobed; ovules 6 in each cell, inserted in 2 ranks on its 



