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ILICINEA. (HoLLyY FAMILY.) 
Trees or shrubs, with simple mostly alternate leaves, small white or 
greenish axillary 4 to 9-merous flowers throughout, and a berry-like 
drupe. 
1. ILEX L. (HOLLY.) 
Shrubs or small trees, with short-petioled leaves and minute pointed 
stipules, persistent calyx, somewhat gamopetalous corolla with oblong 
and very obtuse lobes, and stamens adnate to the base of the short 
tube. 
* Leaves coriaceous, evergreen : flowers 4-merous: drupe red or occasionally yellow. 
1. I. opaca Ait. (AMERICAN HOLLY.) Tall shrub or tree as much as 12 to 15 m. 
high: leaves broad, 5 to 10 em. long, elliptical to obovate-oblong, pungently acumi- 
nate, mostly spinosely dentate: flowers in loose clusters along the base of the young 
branches and in the axils: calyx-segments acute, ciliate: drupes spheroidal or ovoid, 
8 to 10 mm. long.—A holly of the Atlantic and Gulf States, extending into Texas to 
the valley of the Colorado. 
9. I. Cassine Walt. (CasseNA. YAUPON.) Shrub or occasionally arborescent: 
leaves 12 to 36 mm. long, elliptical or elliptical-oblong, very obtuse, coarsely crenate- 
serrate: flower clusters nearly sessile: calyx-segments rounded, scarcely ciliate: 
drupes round, 4 to6 mm. in diameter.—A holly of the Southern States, extending into 
Texas to the valley of the Colorado. 
* = Leaves deciduous : flowers 4 to 6-merous : drupe red or purple, about 6 mm. in diameter. 
8 I. decidua Walt. Shrub or small tree with glabrous gray twigs: leaves 5 to 
6.5 mm, long, wedge-oblong or lance-obovate, obtusely serrate, glossy above, downy 
on the midrib beneath: calyx-segments broadly triangular, mostly dark-pointed and 
scarcely ciliate.—A species of the Southern States and extending in Texas to the 
valley of the San Antonio. 
4. L Caroliniana Trelease. Shrub or smail tree: leaves 2.5 to 5 em. long, ovate 
or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, sparingly serrate with low sharp teeth, slightly 
glossy, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs: calyx-segments rounded, usually 
strongly ciliate. (J. ambigua Chapman.)—A species of the Gulf States, and extend- 
ing into Texas, but whether as far west as our eastern limit is uncertain. 
CELASTRINEH. (STAFF-TREE FAMILY.) 
Shrubs, with simple and undivided leaves, no stipules (or hardly any), 
smal) dull-colored or white (chiefly perfect) regular flowers, imbricated 
calyx and corolla, stamens as many as petals and alternate and inserted 
on the surface or margin of a broad disk, and mostly arillate seeds. 
* Fruit dehiscent. 
1. Buonymus. Leaves opposite: filaments very short, with didymous anthers 
having subglobose cells: ovary immersed in the disk: pod more or less lobed, colored, 
the seeds enclosed in a scarlet or orange aril. 
2, Maytenus. Leavesalternate: filaments longer than the round-cordate anthers: 
ovary confluent with the disk below and narrowed to the slightly lobed stigma: pod 
obovoid, triquetrous, the seeds with a red aril open above. 
** Fruit indehiscent: leaves alternate or opposite: seeds not arillate. 
3. Scheefferia. Flowers diccious, 4-merous: calyx shallow: anthers round-oval: 
stigma 2-cleft, with large incised or fimbriate divisions: ovary 2-celled, becoming a 
spheroidal (compressed or grooved when immature) 2-celled 2-seeded drupe. 
