Myginda
(named after Francis Von Mygind, 1710-1789, a German botanist). SYN. Rhacoma. ORD. Celastrineae. A genus comprising about eight species of stove or hardy, glabrous or pilose shrubs, natives of tropical America (Brazil excepted) and Chili. Flowers small or minute, at the tips of the very short or elongated, subcymose peduncles, or sub-solitary, often in fours; calyx small; petals four or five, reflexed. Leaves opposite, alternate, or whorled (in one species distichous), variable in form, entire or crenated. M. latifolia, the species best known to gardeners, thrives in almost any moderately good light soil. Propagated in autumn, by cuttings of the ripened shoots, placed in sand, under a glass, in heat.
M. latifolia (broad-leaved). fl. white, small; peduncles trifid, few-flowered. April and May. l. elliptical, crenate, smooth, shortly stalked, coriaceous. h. 3ft. West Indies, 1795. Stove.
M. myrtifolia (Myrtle-leaved). A synonym of Pachystima Myrsinites.