314 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [Nov., 
peculiar plant, not rare in the West Indies, and, although early collected upon 
Key West in a shrubby state, often confounded in American collections with M. 
latifolia and M. pallens; referred to [ex by Kunth, and on account of its di- 
cecious flowers and suspended ovules made by Grisebach (Cat. Plant, Cub. p. 15) 
the type of his section Gyminda of the genus Myginda, Myginda integrifolia is 
truly arborescent upon Key West, reaching a height of 20 to 25 feet, with a 
straight slender trunk, not rarely six inches in diameter. It may be distin- 
guished from the other North Ameri peci e genus by its entire obo- 
vate leaves, rounded or often deeply emarginate at the apex, revolute, pale yel- 
low-green in color; its wide-spreading axillary and terminal cymes, diccious 
flowers, the staminate with long erect filaments (those of M. pallens become re- 
flexed between the petals upon the expansion of the flowers) surrounding a 
deeply-cleft pistillate process, the pistillate flower with two-lobed sessile stigmas 
with a singl pended anatroy lei h cell, and by its smal! dark blue 
or black ovoid drupe, the large embryo surrounded with a thin covering of 
albumen. 
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Terminalis Buceras Bentham & Hooker (Bucida Buceras L.). This well- 
known West Indian tree was first seen in the U. S. by Mr. Curtiss. It is com- 
mon in the hummocks, near a Mr. Farley’s house, towards the east end of EIl- 
iott’s Key, where we found it in full bloom on the 19th of April. It is here 
a fine tree, sometimes 50 feet in height, with a trunk 12 to 18 inches in diameter, . 
these tall, upright stems often springing from stout, short, prostrate trunks two 
to three feet in diameter. The wood is heavy, hard and moderately close- 
grained, but probably of little value except for fuel. 
PsrUDOPH@NIX SARGENTIL H. Wendland (in lit.) Dr. Wendland proposes 
light yellow-green, flattened and the latter thickened at the base, espe- 
cially on the upper side, with an ear-shaped process, and with three-lobed three- — 
seeded fruit or often one or two-lobed by abortion, one- half to three-fourths of 
an inch in diameter, in April bright orange or red, fleshy and very conspicuous. 
Unfortunately neither flowers nor pre 1d be found, so that Dr. Wend- 
land, to whom specimens were submitted, is unable to characterize the interest- 
ing addition to the North American sylva. 
The Pseudopheenix is a tree with the general habit and appearance 2a 
Oreodoxa, 20 to 25 feet in height, with a trunk 10 to 12 inches in diameter. Six 
individuals only, in two localities, two or three miles apart, were found. : 
It is perhaps worthy of remark that upon the island of Key West, which 1s 
less than four miles long by about three-quarters of a mile wide, there are 
rowing at the sea level 41 indigenous arborescent species, a greater number no 
doubt than can be found in any other area ef similar extent in the United 
‘States. Lysiloma latisiliqua, Colubrina reclinata, now the rarest of the Florida 
trees, and Clusia flava, not rediscovered in Florida during the last 40 years, 
