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Orper XXXV. ILICINE. 
Flowers regular, bisexual. Calyx 3-6-parted, imbricate. 
Petals 4-5, rarely more, free or combined in a rotate corolla, 
hypogynous, deciduous, imbricate. Stamens as many as the 
petals, free or attached to the base of the corolla; filaments 
subulate; anthers introrse. Disk 0. Ovary free, 38-5- or 
many-celled; style 0 or terminal; ovules 1-2, pendulous. 
Fruit a fleshy drupe, containing 3-18 bony, 1-seeded cells.— 
Trees or shrubs, mostly evergreen, with shining leaves. 
1. ILEX, Linn. 
Flowers perfect. Calyx small, 4—6-toothed, persistent. 
Corolla rotate, 4—6-parted, the segments obtuse, imbricated. 
Stamens alternate with the lobes of the corolla; filaments su- 
bulate; anthers introrse, erect. Ovary sessile, 4—6-celled ; 
ovules 1-2, pendulous ; stigmas 46, sessile. Drupe fleshy, 
subglobose, crowned with the stigmas.—/V. Cap. 1. p. 473. 
Evergreen shrubs or trees, widely dispersed. J. Capensis, our only spe- 
cies, found throughout the colony, is a large shrub or small tree, with ob- 
long or lanceolate, shining, entire leaves, and axillary, fascicled, white 
flowers. 
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Orper XXXVI. CELASTRINEZ. 
Flowers mostly bisexual. Calyx small, 4—5-lobed or parted, 
imbricate, persistent. Petals 4-5, short, spreading, sessile 
under the margin of the disk, imbricate. Stamens 3-5 (rarely 
2-10), inserted at the base, on the margin, on the surface, or 
on the lobes of the disk; filaments mostly short; anthers 2. 
celled. Disk conspicuous, convex or expanded or lobed. 
Ovary sessile on or partly immersed in the disk, 3—5-(rarely 1-) 
celled ; style short, simple or 2-3-fid; ovules commonly 2, 
mostly erect, rarely pendulous. Fruit a capsule drupe or 
berry, or winged (samara) ; seeds with or without albumen.— 
Trees and shrubs, often spinous. Leaves opposite or alternate, 
mostly leathery, simple. Flowers axillary, small. 
Tribe 1. CELASTREm. Stamens inserted on or beneath the margin of a 
conspicuous, fleshy disk. Anthers introrse. 
Fruit capsular, dehiscent. 
Leaves alternate. 
Ovules about 6 in each ovarian cell . . . . 1. PUTTERLICHIA. 
Ovules 2 in each ovarian cell. 
Valves of capsule not winged . . . . . 2. GYMNOSPORIA. 
Valves of capsule dorsally winged. . . . 3. PreROCELASTRUS. 
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