ILICACEAE. 2-15 



1. Mangifera indica L. Sp. PI. 200. 1753. 



A large tree, sometimes 20 m. high or more, with a trunk up to 2.5 m. in 

 diameter, the branches spreading, the stout twigs glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 15-25 cm. long, acute, acuminate or sometimes 

 blunt at the apex, narrowed at the base, glabrous, dark green above, the 

 petioles about 2.5 cm. long; panicles large, terminal, pubescent, the flowers 

 very numerous, green, about 4 mm. wide; fruit pendulous, usually 8-12 cm. 

 long, smooth, greenish or yellowish, the flesh soft and juicy. 



Wood-lands, New Providence. Naturalized. Native of tropical Asia. Widely 

 naturalized in the West Indies and tropical continental America. MANGO. 



COJIOCLADIA IXTEGRIFOLIA L., recorded by Dolley. has not been found by us on 

 any of the cays or islands of the archipelago : it is only known to inhabit Jamaica 

 and Hispaniola. 



AXACAKDIUM OCCIDENTALE L. and SPONDiAS i.UTEA L., recorded as Bahamian by 

 Dolley, have not been found by us in a wild state within the archipelago. 



Family 3. ILICACEAE Lowe. 

 HOLLY FAMILY. 



Shrubs or trees, with watery sap, and alternate petioled simple leaves. 

 Flowers axillary, small, white, mainly polygamo-dioecious, regular. Stip- 

 ules minute and deciduous, or none. Calyx 3-6-parted, generally per- 

 sistent. Petals 46 (rarely more), separate, or slightly united at the base, 

 hypogynous, deciduous, imbricated. Stamens hypogynous, as many as 

 the petals, or sometimes more; anthers oblong, cordate. Disk none. Ovary 

 1, superior, 3-several-celled ; stigma discoid or capitate ; style short or 

 none; ovules 1 or 2 in each cavity. Fruit a small berry-like drupe, enclos- 

 ing several nutlets. Seed pendulous; endosperm fleshy; embryo straight. 

 Three genera and about 300 species, of temperate and tropical regions. 



1. ILEX L. Sp. PI. 125. 1753. 



Leaves minutely stipulate. Flowers cymose or solitary, perfect or polyg- 

 amous. Calyx small, 4-5-cleft or toothed. Petals 4-9, somewhat united at the 

 base, oblong, obtuse. Stamens of the same number, aduate to the base of the 

 corolla. Berry-like drupe globose, with 4-8 bony or crustaceous nutlets. [An- 

 cient name of the Holly Oak.] About 280 species 1 , mostly natives of America. 

 Type species: Ilex Aqui folium L. 



Leaves dark green above, pale beneath. 1. I. Cassine. 

 Leaves dark green above and beneath. 



Leaves obovate. obtuse or emarginate. 2. /. rcpanda. 



Leaves ovate-elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. 3. /. Kruyiana. 



I. Ilex Cassine L. Sp. PL 125. 1753. 



A shrub, or small tree. Twigs pubescent; leaves oblanceolate or oblong- 

 obovate, 5-10 cm. long, 1.25-2.5 cm. wide, acute at the base, glabrous and dark 

 green above, pale and usually pubescent beneath; petioles 6-8 mm. long; 

 staminate cymes several- or many-flowered; peduncles and pedicels pubescent; 

 fertile cymes commonly 3-flowered; calyx-lobes ciliate; drupes red, globose, 

 4-6 mm. in diameter. 



Palmetto-lands, and coppices. Great Bahama, at Barnett's Point ; Andros, near 

 Staniard Creek : Virginia to Florida and Louisiana ; Cuba. DAHOON HOLLY. 



