. 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. Florida Boxwood 633 have a 2-celled ovary with i pendulous ovule in each cavity. The fruit is a small drupe. The name Gyminda is an anagram of Myginda, to which genus the following species was first referred. Gyminda laiifolia, the type of the genus, grows in southern Florida, the Baha- mas, Cuba, and Porto Rico. It attains a maximum height of about 9 meters, with a trunk 2 dm. in diameter or less. Its bark is reddish bro
. 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. Florida Boxwood 633 have a 2-celled ovary with i pendulous ovule in each cavity. The fruit is a small drupe. The name Gyminda is an anagram of Myginda, to which genus the following species was first referred. Gyminda laiifolia, the type of the genus, grows in southern Florida, the Baha- mas, Cuba, and Porto Rico. It attains a maximum height of about 9 meters, with a trunk 2 dm. in diameter or less. Its bark is reddish brown and thin. The young twigs are sharply 4-angled and smooth, becoming round and gray. The leaves are obovate-oblong, thick, slightly toothed or entire-margined, blunt or sometimes notched at the apex, narrowed at the base, very short-stalked, 2 to 5 cm. long, paler green on the under side than on the upper. The flowers open from February to June. The drupe is nearly black, oblong, 6 to 8 mm. long. The wood is dense, very dark brown, with a specific gravity of about IV. FLORIDA BOXWOOD GENUS SOH^FFERIA JACQUIN Species ScheeSeria frutescens Jacquin CH^FFERIA contains 5 species, one a low shrub of Texas and adjacent Mexico, a tree of subtropical America, here described, which, how- ever, also grows commonly as a shrub, and three other West Indian shrubs. They have alternate persistent entire-margined leaves and small imperfect flowers, clustered or solitary in the axils, the staminate on one. Fig. 585. — Florida Boxwood. plant, the pistillate on another. The 4-lobed calyx is very much shorter than the 4 petals; there are 4 slender stamens and a rudimentary ovary in the staminate flower; in the pistillate flower the 2-celled ovary has one erect ovule in each cavity, and is surmounted by a short style and a 2-lobed stigma. The fruit is a small. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - colora
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