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1. Gymlnda latifdUa (Sw.) Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 80. 1904. 



Myginda latifolia Sw. Prodr. 39. 1788. 



Gyminda Griseiachii Sargent, Gard. & For. 4: 4. 1891. 



A shrub, or a tree with maximum heigcht of about 9 m., the thin bark 

 reddish brown, the trunk seldom over 1.5 dm. in diameter, the young twigs 

 4-angled, glabrous. Leaves oblong or oblong-obovate, subcoriaeeous, glabrous, 

 2-6 em. long, obtuse or emarginate at the apex, narrowed at the base, the 

 petioles very short; peduncles slender, 6-15 mm. long; petals about 2 mm. long; 

 drupe ellipsoid, obtuse, 4-8 mm. long. 



Scrub-lands and coppices, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Great 

 Bahama to Andi-os, Caicos, Grand Turk and Inagua : — Florida ; Cuba to St. Thomas 

 and to St. Vincent ; Jamaica ; Mexico. Gyminda. False Boxwood. Walla-ebeet. 



4. SCHAEFFEEIA Jaoq. Enum. 10, 33. 1760. 



Shrubs or trees, with alternate or fasdoled, entire, chartaceous or sub- 

 coriaceous leaves (in one species reduced to small scales), and small, mostly 

 dioecious, white or greenish flowers, solitary or clustered in the axils, the 

 peduncles short. Calyx 4-parted, the lobes rounded, imbricated. Petals 4, 

 obtuse. Stamens 4. Disc inconspicuous. Ovary sessile, ovoid, 2-celled; ovules 

 1 in each cavity, erect; style short; stigma 2-parted, large. Fruit coriaceous, 

 indehiscent. Seeds erect, exarUlate, with little endosperm and flat; cotyledons. 

 [Commemorates J. C. Sehaeffer, a German naturalist.] Five known species, of 

 tropical and subtropical America, the following typical. 



1. Schaefferla frutescens Jacq. Enum. 33. 1760. 



A tree, up to 14 m-. high, with a maximum trunk diameter of about 3 dm., 

 usually much smaller, commonly a shrub, the thin bark gray, the slender twigs 

 glabrous. Leaves obovate, spatulate or oblong, chartaceous, glabrous, veiny, 

 2.5-6 cm-, long, acute, obtuse or rarely emarginate at the apex, narrowed at the 

 base, the petioles 3-8' mm. long; flowers greenish, about 3 mm. wide; peduncles 

 slender, mostly somewhat longer than the petioles; fruit globose or oval, 

 orange-red, grooved, apiculate, 5-6 mm. long. 



Scrub-lands, Great Bahama, Andres, New Providence and Bieuthera to Mari- 

 guana and Inagua : — Florida ; Cuba to Virgin Gorda and Grenada ; Jamaica. 

 Common Schaeffekia. 



5. ELAEODENDRUM Jacq. f.; Murray, Syst. 241. 1784. 



Evergreen trees or shrubs, with opposite or alternate coriaceous leaves, the 

 very small stipules caducous, and small, often dioecious, greenish or white 

 flowers in small axillary clusters. Calyx 5-parted. Petals 5, spreading. 

 Stamens 5, inserted under the disk; filaments short; anthers globose. Ovary 

 adnate to the disk, 2-5i-eelled; style short; stigma 2-5-lobed, ovules 2 in each 

 ovary-cavity. Fruit a rather large drupe. [Greek, olive-wood; the fruit re- 

 sembles an olive in form.] About 35 species, natives of tropical regions. Type 

 species: Mlaeodendron orientale Jacq. 



1. Elaeodendrum attenuatum A. Eich. Ess. Fl. Cub. 2: 343. 1845. 



Cassine attenuata Kuntze, Eev. Gen. PI. 114. 18'91. 



Elaeodendron xylocarpum baliamense Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 88. 1904. 



A tree, with maximum height of about 16 m., usually much smaller and 

 often shrubby, the bark gray, the twigs and leaves glabrous. Leaves pale green, 



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