246 CELASTRACEAE. 



2. Ilex repanda Griseb. Mem. Am. Acad. II. 8: 172. 1860. 



A shrub or small tree up to 8 m. tall, the leaves and twigs glabrous. 

 Leaves obovate or elliptic-obovate, 4-7 cm. long, 2-4 em. wide, rounded, obtuse 

 or emarginate at the apex, acute at the base, dark-green and shining above, dull 

 beneath, sparingly repand-dentate or entire, the petioles 3-5 mm. long; cymes 

 several-flowered; pedicels 3-5 mm. long, glabrous; calyx obtusely 4-lobed; 

 drupes subglobose or obovoid, about 5 mm. in diameter. 



Coppices and scrub-lands, Abaco, Great Bahama, Andros, New Providence and 

 Eleuthera : Cuba. Recorded by Dolley as Ilex montana Griseb. Cuban Holly. 



3. Ilex Krugiana Loes. Bot. Jahrb. 15: 317. 1892. 



A tree, attaining a height of 15 m. and a trunk-diameter of 3 dm., usually 

 smaller, and sometimes shrubby, the slender twigs gray, becoming nearly white, 

 the bark thin, smooth, nearly white. Leaves elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, ehar- 

 taceous, 5-10 cm. long, acuminate at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the base, 

 entire, revolute-margined, glabrous, shining above, dull beneath, the slender 

 petioles 1-2 cm. long; flowers few or several in axillary clusters; peduncles 

 about 1 cm. long; pedicels very short; calyx-lobes triangular, acute; corolla 

 about 2.5 mm. broad, its lobes ovate; drupes purplish, usually containing 4 

 nutlets, about 4 mm. in diameter. 



Coppices, pine-lands and scrub-lands, Abaco, Great Bahama. Andros and New 

 Providence : Florida ; Hispaniola. Recorded by Dolley as Ilex Macoucoua Pers. 

 Kedg's Holly. 



Sehoepf records a New Providence plant as Ilex etmeata, giving the name only 

 without description or reference, therefore not identified. 



Family 4. CELASTRACEAE L. 



Staff-tree Family. 



Trees or shrubs, some species climbing. Leaves simple. Stipules, when 

 present, small and caducous. Flow T ers regular, generally perfect, small. 

 Pedicels commonly jointed. Calyx 4-5-lobed or -parted, persistent, the 

 lobes imbricated. Petals 4 or 5, spreading. Stamens inserted on the disk. 

 Disk flat or lobed. Ovary sessile, mostly 3-5-celled; style short, thick; 

 stigma entire or 3-5-lobed; ovules 2 in each cavity, anatropous. Fruit 

 drupaceous or capsular. Seeds with or without an aril; embryo large; 

 cotyledons foliaeeous. About 45 genera, and 375 species, widely distributed. 



Fruit a dehiscent capsule; seeds arillate. 1. Maytenus. 



Fruit indehiscent ; seeds not arillate. 

 Cells of the ovary 1-ovuled. 



Sepals connate near the base. 2. Rhacoma. 



Sepals distinct or nearly so. 



Leaves opposite ; ovule pendulous. 3. Oi/minda. 



Leaves alternate ; ovule erect. 4. Schaefferia. 



Cells of the ovary 2-ovuled. 5. Elaeodendrum. 



1. MAYTENUS Molina, Sagg. Chile 177. 1782. 



Unarmed, evergreen shrubs or trees, with alternate petioled coriaceous 

 serrate leaves, and small polygamous axillary flowers, solitary or in clusters. 

 Calyx 5-lobed. Stamens 5, the filaments subulate. Disk orbicular, undulate. 

 Ovary immersed in the disk, 2-4-celled; ovules 1 or 2 in each cavity, erect; 

 style slender or none; stigma 2-4-lobed. Fruit a small coriaceous capsule, 

 1-S-celled, loculicidally 2-3-valved. Seeds erect, the testa crustaceous; the aril 

 fleshy; cotyledons foliaeeous. [From the Chilean name.] Type species: 

 Maytenus Boaria Molina. 



Leaves suborbicular to broadly elliptic, cordate at base. 1. M. lu cay ana. 



Leaves obovate to oblong-spathulate, narrowed or cuneate at base. 2. If. buxifolia. 



