Mylocaryum
(from myle, a mill, and karyon, a nut; the dry seeds have four wings like a windmill). Buckwheat-tree. ORD. Cyrilleae. A monotypic genus, the proper name of which is Cliftonia. The species is a half-hardy evergreen shrub, thriving in a compost of sandy loam and dried leaf mould; it requires sheltered, warm border, but does best under cool greenhouse treatment. Propagated by cuttings of half-ripened shoots, inserted in sand, under a glass.
M. ligustrinum (Ligustrum-like). fl. white, fragrant; racemes spiked, terminal. May. l. cuneate-lanceolate, acute. h. 8ft. South United States. (B. M. 1625.) The proper name of this plant is now Clifornia ligustrina.