. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 632 False Boxwood leaves are opposite or in whorls, ovate, obovate, oblong or elliptic, i to 4 cm. long, blunt or acutish or notched at the apex, narrowed and tapering at the base, the margin bluntly toothed at least toward the apex; they are light green and smooth above, paler with promi- nent midrib beneath; the leaf-stalk is about 2 mm. long. The flowers are very small, perfect, in the axils of the leaves, in slender-s
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 632 False Boxwood leaves are opposite or in whorls, ovate, obovate, oblong or elliptic, i to 4 cm. long, blunt or acutish or notched at the apex, narrowed and tapering at the base, the margin bluntly toothed at least toward the apex; they are light green and smooth above, paler with promi- nent midrib beneath; the leaf-stalk is about 2 mm. long. The flowers are very small, perfect, in the axils of the leaves, in slender-stalked clusters, appearing in spring; their um-shaped calyx has 4 roundish lobes; petals 4, inserted under the flattened 4-lobed disk, oval and re- flexed; stamens 4, inserted between the lobes of the disk; ovary 4-celled, merging into the disk; stigmas 4; ovules sohtary and erect in each cavity. The fruit is a red, slightly oblique drupe 5 to 6 mm. long, with a bony stone. The genus consists of 10 or more species, mostly shrubs, of the warmer portions of the New World. One other species, a small, straggling, or prostrate shrub, with spiny-toothed leaves, also grows in southern Florida. The name is supposed to be from Rha, the old name of the Volga, and was used by Pliny for some Old World Fig. 583. — Rhacoma. III. FALSE BOXWOOD GENUS GYMINDA [GRISEBACH] SARGENT Species Gyminda latifolia (Swartz) Urban Myginda latifolia Swartz. Gyminda Grisebachii Sargent YMINDA, as now known, consists of 2 species, one here de- scribed, the other Costa Rican. They are evergreen trees with simple opposite leaves, and small greenish imperfect flowers, in small axillary clusters, the pistil- late on one plant, the sterile on another. The calyx has 4 small lobes; there are 4 petals much longer than the calyx; the stami- nate flowers have 4 stamens about as long as the petals and a minute abortive ovary; the fertile flowers Fig. 384. — False Please note that these images are e
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