Ilex. 



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Order XXXVIII. ILICINEiE 



Trees or shrubs with alternate coriaceous leaves. Flowers 

 small white yellowish or pink on axillary cymes, fascicles or rarely 

 racemes. Sepals 4 or 5 rounded connate at base often unequal. 

 Petals 5 or 6 connate at base, rarely quite free, larger rounded. 

 Stamens 5 shorter or longer than the petals adnate to them ; fila- 

 ments subulate; anthers small. Ovary in female flower 2- to 

 i2-celled ; ovules i or 2 ; style o or very short. Stigma capitate. 

 Drupe globose small of 2 to 16 pyrenes. Genera 3, species 220, 

 tropics and temperate zone. Petals connate at base ; stamens as 

 many ; ovary 4- to 6-locular. Species about 150, whole world. 



1. ILEX, Linn. 



Flowers of both sexes in simple racemes 

 Flowers in axillary fascicles; leaves i to 2 in. 



long, coriaceous usually serrate 

 Leaves '5 in. long obovate 

 Leaves "5 in. long ovate acute serrate at top 

 Leaves 3 by 1-5 to 2 in. very coriaceous 



entire elliptic to obovate 

 Leaves elliptic acuminate 5 by 2-25 in. 



entire ; flowers large .... 

 Leaves elliptic acuminate undulate thin 4 



by I "25 in.; flowers rather small . 

 Leaves elliptic crenulate thick 7 by 3 in. ; 



fruits '4 in. through .... 

 Flowers in peduncled cymes. 



Peduncles short "i to -i in. long. 



Leaves elliptic blunt very coriaceous pale 



beneath entire 2 by i in. 

 Leaves elliptic blunt, entire very cori- 

 aceous 5 by 3 in. 

 Leaves elliptic blunt-cuspidate entire 3 by 



1-5 in 



Leaves thin coriaceous elliptic entire 6 by 



2-5 in 



Peduncle '5 in. long; pedicels as long 



3-flowered ; leaves lanceolate ; nerves 



depressed above 3 by '75 in. 

 Peduncle, 6 in. long slender; branches 2 with 



short branchlets; leaves rather thin 



elliptic-lanceolate, 5 by 1-25 in. . 

 Cymes panicled many-flowered umbelled; 



pyrenes 5 or G; leaves ovate-elliptic 



cuspidate stiff ..... 

 Pyrenes 8 ; cymes lax ; flov/ers and fruit 



small ...... 



Cymes compact ; flowers and fruit larger 



(i) I. malaccensis 



(2) I. triflora 



(3) I. myrtillus 



(4) I. polyphylla 



(5) I. epiphytica 



(6) I. grandiflora 



(7) I. glomerata 



(8) I. illustris 



(9) I. rupicola 



(10) I. sclerophylla 



(11) I. sclerophylloides 



(12) I. Maingayi 



(13) I. patens 



(14) I. pauciflora 



(15) I. venulosa 



(16) I. cymosa 



(17) I. macrophylla 



(i) I. malaccensis Loesener Monogr. Aquifol. 432. I. spicata 

 Hook. fil. F.B.I, i. 508; King, I.e. 134, not of Blitme. 



Shrub 10 to 18 ft. tall. Leaves coriaceous elliptic caudate- 



