472 AQUIFOLIACEZ (Sond.) [Tlen. 
2. 8. angustifolium (Sond.); twigs sub-angular ; leaves lanceolate, 
obtuse, narrowed into a petiole; peduncles panicled, much shorter than 
the leaf. Elwodendron angustifolium, Presl, Bot. Bem. p. 34. 
Has, Mountains near Capetown, Ecklon / Albany, Mrs. F. W. Barber! (Herb. 
T.C.D., Sond.) : 
A shrub, with the aspect of S. Jawrinum, with erecto-patent branches, and mostl 
wdery twigs. Leaves very short-petioled, about 14-1} inches long, 4-§ im 
= ad, paler underneath, obsoletely veined, tipped with a short, often inflexed point. 
Peduncles 4-6 together, 1-2 lines long. Flowers white, like those of S. laurinum. 
Fruit wanting. 
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Orper XLIV. AQUIFOLIACEZ, DC. 2 
(By W. Sonver.) : 
(Aquifoliacex, DC. Theorie, 1813. Lindl. Veg. Kingd. No, ccxxx. 
Tlicinee, A. Brongniart, 1826. Endl Gen. No. ccxxxviii.) 
Flowers mostly perfect, regular. Calyx small, 4-6 cleft or parted, H 
persistent, with imbricate zstivation. Corolla mostly monopetalous % 
(in Monetia pleio-petalous), regular, 4—6-cleft, with a very short tube, 
the segments imbricate or sub-valvate in wstivation. Stamens alternate ~ 
with the lobes of the corolla and inserted on its tube (in Monetia in- 
serted on the margin of a perigynous disc); filaments subulate, short ; 
anthers introrse, 2-celled, the cells adnate. Ovary sessile, fleshy, sub- 
globose, 2-6-8 or many celled ; ovules solitary, pendulous or erect, 
anatropous ; stigma sub-sessile. Drupe fleshy and juicy, with 2 or more 
indehiscent, one-seeded stones. Seed (except in Monetia) with copious, 
fleshy albumen, and a small or minute embryo. 
Evergreen trees or shrubs, natives of North and South America, and of the tem- 
perate regions of Europe and Asia, rare within the tropics. Leaves alternate or 
opposite, petioled, simple, coriaceous, glabrous and shining, penninerved, entire or 
spinous-toothed, exstipulate. Flowers small, white or greenish, axillary, either soli- 
tary, clustered, or in cymes or fascicles. The common Englsh Holly is the type of 
=. Order, which is nearly allied to Celastrinee, but known by its usually monopeta- 
— corolla, small embryo and copious albumen ; characters which do not apply to 
Moneta, a genus placed here provisionally until some better place may be found fo 
it. The Paraguay Tea (Ilex paraguayensis), so largely used in South America, 16 
the most famous plant of the Order. The wood of most, as of the English holly, is 
very ‘er ved and fine grained, well suited for turning and for ornamental cabinet 
work, stained black it is a cheap substitute for Ebony. 
TABLE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN GENERA. 
Sub-Order 1. Inictinex.—Corolla monopetalous. Ovules pendulous. 
eds with copious, fleshy albumen and a minute embryo. 
| _T. Mex.—Ovary 4-6 celled, with sessile sti 
Cel FE Cassinopsis.— Ovary cow sella with — 
a elaine Cortlls polypetalous, Ovules erect. Seeds 
III. Monetia.—Flowers unisexual, Spines axillary, spreading. 
