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CALYCI FLORAE. 
l-celled, 1 -seeded: seed pendulous from the apex of 
the cell, albuminous. 
Shrubs, natives of the West- India Islands and South America: 
brancldets 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, FI. hid. Occ. 340. 
HAB. 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-flowered : 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 Occidentals. THest- India Holly. 
Leaves obovato-elliptic rounded and usually emar- 
