lode*] XXXIX. OLACINE.E (OLIVER). 359 



Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto and Cazeugo, Angola (female flowers), Dr. Welwitsch ! 



I Pll ^ tocrene : Imperfect specimens of perhaps 2 species of this genus were sent 

 home by Dr. Kirk from Sierra Leone and S. tropical Africa. They are insufficient for de- 

 scription. 



Order XL. ILICINE-ffi (by Prof. Oliver). 



Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or subdicecious. Calyx 3-6-toothed or 

 -partite, usually persistent. Petals 3-6, free or connate below, hypogynous, 

 imbricate. Stamens as many as the petals, alternate with them, free or ad- 

 herent to the petals. Anthers rotundate or subcordate, dehiscing longitu- 

 dinally. Ovary ovoid or globose, free, 3-6-celled ; style terminal or 0. 

 uvules 1 or 2 in each cell, pendulous. Fruit drupaceous, with 3 or more 

 bony 1-seeded pyrenes. Seeds with a fleshy albumen ; embryo minute, 

 apical, with a superior radicle." — Trees or shrubs, usually glabrous and ever- 

 green. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, petiolate, coriaceous, entire dentate or 

 sinuous-spinose. Flowers small, in axillary cymes or umbels, often pedun- 



A small Natural Order chiefly American and Asiatic, with a few outliers in the N. tem- 

 perate zone. By far the greater number of species belong to the genus Ilex. The only 

 Topical African representative appears to be peculiar to the continent. 



1. ILEX, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 356. 



Petals usually connate at the base. Stamens as many as petals. Ovary 

 *-6-celled. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves usually shining. Inflorescence axil- 

 lary. 



A large genus widelv dispersed in tropical and temperate regions, represented by the com- 

 m, "i Holly in Britain." 



1 I. capensis, Sond. and Harv. FL Capensis, i. 473. A glabrous 

 shrub or tree, attaining sometimes 30-40 ft. Leaves rather coriaceous, ob- 

 ong-elliptical or oval, acute, mucronate, occasionally broadly acute or rather 

 , tuse > m ore or less acute at the base, rather remotely serrulate or denticu- 

 ate-serrate towards the apex or entire, 2|-4 in. long, f-li in. broad ; pe- 

 ' ole 4-1 in. Flowers in shortly pedunculate umbels, 5-merous or 6-merous. 

 etas connate below. Berries ovoid-globose, crowned by the sessile or sub- 

 jssile obtuse stigma (in the Cape specimens).— For synonymy, see 'Flora 



^Pper Guinea. Camaroons mountain, 4000-8000 ft., Mann ! 



ower Guinea. Angola, prov. Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch ! 

 4180 »t the Cape. 



Order XLI. CELASTRACE51 (by Prof. Oliver). 



Jlowers small, regular, usually hermaphrodite. Calyx 4-5-lobed or -par- 



e > Persistent. Petals 4-5, usually spreading, sessile or subsessde around 



elow ^e margin of the disk, imbricate. Stamens as many as petals or 



