398 CELASTRACE.E. Pachislima. 



cuneate : peduncles and pedicels about A line long, the former 1- to mostly 3-flowered : fruit 

 narrowly ovoid, 4 Hues long. — Am. Monthly Mag. ii. 176, & Sylv. Tellur. 42; Gray, Troc, 

 Am. Acad. viii. 378, 624; Trelcase, 1. c. 354. Ilex ! Mijrsinites, I'ursh, Fl. i. 119. Miiyinda 

 myrtifolia, Nutt. Geu. i. 109; Iluok. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 120, t. 41. Oreophila myrtifolia, Nutt. 

 in Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 239. — Brit. Columbia to California, New Mexico, and Colorado. 

 (Northern Mex.) 

 P. Canbyi, Grav. Trailing and rooting, the branches a span or two high: leaves narrowly 

 elliptical or exceptionally obovate, slightly revolute, 5 to 10 lines long, the upper lialf ser- 

 rulate, obtuse, the base rounded or subcuneate : peduncles and pedicels filiform, frequently 

 2 lines long: otherwise similar to the preceding. — Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 623; Meehan, 

 Native Flower.<, ser. 1, i. 173, t. 44; Cliapm. Fl. ed. 2, 613 ; Trelea.se, 1. c. 354. — Mountains 

 of Virginia. A specimen, unquestionably of this species, labelled Jacksonville, Florida, 

 Bremlel. 



3. CELASTRUS, L. St.\ff-tree. (An ancient Greek name, of un- 

 certain application.) — Twining shrubs with terete glabrous stems, alternate ser- 

 rate pinnately veined ample petioled deciduous leaves with very minute stipules, 

 and rather ample terminal and often axillary somewhat pedunculate panicles or 

 racemes, drooping in fruit. — Gen. no. 168 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 257 ; Gray, Gen. 

 111. ii. 185, t. 170 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 364 ; Baill. Hist. PI. vi. 36 ; Trelease, 

 Trans. St. Louis Acad. v. 352, 354 ; Losener in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. 

 iii. Ab. 5, 205, — Mostly of India and Eastern Asia, also reaching Australia and 

 Madagascar. 



C. scandens, L. (Shrubby or Climbing Bitter-sweet.) Climbing to a considerable 

 lieiglit : the leaves more or less 2-rauked from torsion of the stem, ovate or exceptionally 

 obovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute at base, acuminate, low-serrate or crenate-serrate, glabrous, 

 2 to 4 inches long: pedicels articulated below the middle: fruit 6 lines in diameter, orange, 

 when dehiscent exposing the very showy crimson aril. — Spec. i. 196 ; Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 85, 

 t. 95; Schk. Handb. i. 153, t. 47 ; Nouv. Duham. vi. 110, t. 33 ; Loud. Arb. ii. .502, f. 171 ; 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 257, 685 ; Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 186, t. 170 ; Schnizl. Ic. iv. t. 236, f. 1, 12-14, 

 27 ; Emerson, Trees & Shrubs Mass. ed. 2, ii. 545, with plate ; Trelease, 1. c. 354 ; Dippel, 

 I. c. 482; liisener, 1. c. 191, f. 117 E. C. hulkitus, L. Spec. i. 196. Eiionymoides scandens, 

 Micnch, Metli. 70.— Canada and New England to South Dakota and New Mexico. 



4. MAYTENUS, Mol. (Name from the Chilian word mat/ten.) — 8hrubs 

 with terete glabrous twigs, alternate mostly entire evergreen leaves with minute 

 and evanescent stipules, and reduced few-flowered axillary cymes shorter tlian 

 the leaves. — Mol. ace. to Juss. Gen. 449; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 364; Gri.seb. 

 Cat. PI. Cub. 53 ; Losener in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. iii. Ab. 5, 205, & 

 Engl. Jahrb. xv. Beibl. no. 38, 6. Haenhea, Ruiz & Pav. Prodr. 36, t. 6. 

 Tricerma, Liebm. Vidensk. Meddel. 1853, 97. Monteverdia, A. Rich. Fl. Cub. 

 i. 346. — Of the tropical or subtropical American region. 



M. phyllanthoides, Benth. Rather large shrub : leaves pale, thick, dull, obnvate, acute 

 at base, very obtuse or somewhat emarginate, entire or slightly repand above, glabrous, an 

 inch long, the petiole about a line long: flowers very short-stalked: capsule 4 to 6 lines 

 long, contracted at ba.se or substipitate, deep red, somewhat glaucous. — Bot. Sul])li. 54; 

 Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 47; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., v. 155; Chapm. Fl. 77; Hemsl. Biol. 

 Centr.-Am. Bot. i. 189; Trelease, l". c. 355. Tricerma crassifolium, Liebm. Vidensk. Moddcl. 

 1853, 98. — Cape Sable, Pumpkin Key, Cedar Key.s and Key West, Florida. (Mex., Lower 

 Calif.) 



5. G-YMINDA, Sargent. (Name by transposition from Mi/riinda.) — Shrub 

 or small tree with more or less 4-angled glabrous twigs, opposite nearly entire 



