576 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PRODLX'TIOXS. 



One of tlie best known species of this Order is the Holly {Ilex aquifolium), the 

 bark of ■which yields birdlime, and the wood of which is close-gniiued and hard. 

 Ilex Paragimensis yields Puruguay tea, and several species are cultivated as ornamental 

 plants. This Ilex must not be confounded with the tree which afforded so noble 

 a simile to Horace in his ode to the lloman people, who had in view the Holm oak 

 ( Qitercus ilex] : 



"Duris ut Ilex, tonsa bipennibus 

 Kiftra? feraci frondis in Algido, 

 Per damna, jjer casdos, ab ipso 

 Ducit opes, animumque ferro." 



Cann. IV. 4. line 57. 



Order OLACIXE^. 



Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or rarely unisexual. Ctili/x small, 4-6-toothed, 

 free or adnate to the disk. Petals 4-6, free, or more or less united, valvate. Stamens 

 as many, or twice as many as (rarely fewer than) the petals, adnate to the base of 

 the petals, or free and hypogynous. Anthers 2-celled, versatile, or rarely adnate. Bisk 

 free or adnate to the ovary or to the calyx, rarely divided into scale-like glands. 

 Ovary free, or immersed in the disk, 1 or imperfectly 2-3-celled, with 2-3, or rarely 

 a Bolitai-y pendulous ovule in each cell. Sti/le simple. Frjdt usually an indehiscent 

 drupe. Seeds solitary, pendulous, or spuriously erect. Albumen present, or none. 

 Trees or slu'ubs with usually alternate, simjile leaves. 



Sub-order OLACi:^. 

 Stamens as many or twice as many (rarely fewer) as petals and opposite to them. 



Sub-tribe EU-OLACIE^TI. 

 Stamens anisonierous, or isomeruus. Ovarij '2-b-eelled at the base, \-efllcd at the 

 apex or completely \-celled, the placenta central with 2-3 pendulous orules. 



* Sti>me7is twice as many as pdiils, or if fewer, accompanied by staminodes. 



XiMExiA, linnceus. 

 Cali/x not enlarging after flowering. Stamens all perfect. 



X. Americana, L. S. Coasts of Tenasserim, the Andamans, 



X subscandens, Gritf. Car Xicobar and Katchall. 



Pynleh-si or Pynleh-ku-yin (Kurz). 

 Drupe about an inch long, red, smooth, edible, containing a large not very hard 

 nut. Wood of a yellow colour. 



Olax, Linnaus. 

 Calyx inclosing the fruit. Perfect stamens 3, rarely 5. Staminodes 6 or fewer. 



X Enlaiyed calyx in fruit membranous, dry. 

 0. SCANDENS, Eoxb. <S'..S'. Ava. Chittagong and Tenasserim. 



O. obtusa, Bl. 

 Toung-leh-lu or Lai-loo (Kurz). 



Branchlets terete, like the under surface of the leaves and the racemes, puberulous. 

 0. AcrniNATA, "Wall. S. Ava, Mogoung River, and Khakyen Hills. 



All parts also the racemes quite glabrous. Branchlets angular. 



X X Enlarged fruiting calyx coriaceous {fleshy in afresh state). 

 O. iiiBEUATA, Eoxb. C. Chittagong. Tenasserim. KatehaU. 



Glabrous, the branchlets terete. Flowers 4-5 lines long. 



