Jacquinia

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Read about Jacquinia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Jacquinia (Nicholas Joseph de Jacquin, 1727- 1817, collector and painter of West Indian plants). Myrsinaceae; by some separated, with Clavija and Theophrasta, in Theophrastaceae. Tropical American trees and shrubs, seldom cultivated far South for ornament. Leaves opposite or somewhat verticillate, rigid, margined, entire: fls. white, purple or orange, borne in racemes, umbels or singly; corolla 5-fid, wheel- to salver-shaped, crowned at the throat and between the lobes with 5 roundish appendages (staminodia); stamens 5, inserted far down in corolla-tube, the filaments subulate: berry leathery, few to several-seeded. In the allied genus Theophrasta the corolla is cylindrical, shortly 5-lobed, the appendages are fastened at the base of the corolla instead of the throat, and the berry is many-seeded.By the latest monographer (Mez, Engler's Pflanzenreich, hft. 15, 1903), 33 species are described, of the warm parts of Amer. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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