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1. ILEX, Liun. 



Trees or slu-ubs. Leaves alternate, often shiuiug. Flowers axillary, 

 white. Calyx small, persistent, 4-6-lobed or 4-6-partite. Corolla rotate, 

 4-6-partite ; lobes obtuse. Stamens isomerous with the corolla-lobes, 

 slightly adherent to the short tube ; anthers oblong. Ovary sessile, 

 subglobose, 2-12-celled ; ovules 1-2 in each cell; style short, thick, 

 or ; stigmas free or confluent. Drupe globose, rarely ovoid, with 

 2-1(5 stones. — Distrib. Tropical and terrperate regions of the world, 

 most numerous in N. America, rare in Africa and Australia ; species 

 more than 200. 



1. Ilex malabarica, Bedd. Flor. St/lvat. (1871) t. 143. A large 

 tree quite glabrous. Leaves 2-4 by -r--1| in., elliptic or lanceolate, 

 acute or acuminate, often mucronate, usually entire but sometimes with 

 one or two spinulose teeth towards the tip, glabrous on both surfaces, 

 dark green and shining above, very pale beneath, base acute ; petioles 

 ^-\ in. long. Flowers in axillary fascicles or very shortly peduncled 

 umbellate cymes, rarely solitary ; pedicels 3-8, slender. Calyx puberu- 

 lous outside ; lobes usually 0, broadly ovate, acute, ciliate. Petals white, 

 united at the base into a deciduous corolla about -^^ in. long; lobes 4-6, 

 oblong, rounded at the apex. Stamens 4-6, inserted at the base of the 

 corolla ; tilaments short. Ovary in the female globose ; style short, 

 thick ; stigma large, obsoletely 6-lobed. Ovary in the male imperfect, 

 Avith 4 minute stigmas. Drupes small, globose, ^ in. in diam., usually 

 6-celled, crowned by the thirk style and supported by the persistent 

 calyx. FL B. I. v. 1, p. 600; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 46: Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 270 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, 

 p. 328. Ilex Wiyhtiana, Dalz. ife Gibs. p. 143 {not of Wall.).— Flowers: 

 Feb .-Apr. 



Konk\n: Grlmts, Bahell S^- Gibson, Stocks I, Be Crespignt/ ex JVoodrotv ; in eTevgreen 

 forests, Talbot; Ghats near Sivapur (Wiiri country), Dalzelll Kanaka: along the 

 banks of streams near Amod, Supa subdivision of N. Kanara, Talbot. — Distrib. India 

 (\V. Peninsula). 



Okder XL. CELASTRACE^. 



Trees or erect or climbing shrubs, sometimes spinescent. Leaves 

 opposite and alternate, usually coriaceous, simple, never lobed ; stipules 

 very caducous or 0. Flowers small, hermaphrodite or polygamous, 

 usually cymose. Calyx small, 4-5-lobed or -partite, imbricate, per- 

 sistent. Petals 4-5 (rarely 0), inserted under the edge of the disk or 

 continuous with its margin, imbricate. Stamens 5, 4 or 3 (rarely 2), 

 inserted under, on, or within the edge of the disk ; filaments subulate, 

 usually short ; anthers short, muticous, 2-celled. Disk usually con- 

 spicuous, pulvinate or flattened, lobed or entire, rarely 0. Ovary sessile 

 on the disk, free or adherent at the base, 2-5-celled ; ovules 1-2 in each 

 cell, anatropous, erect, rarely 1 and pendulous, or many ascending and 

 attached to the axis ; raphe ventral in the ascending, dorsal in the 

 pendulous ; style short, thick or : stigma simple or lobed. Fruit 

 capsular, baccate, drupaceous or samaroid. Seeds usufllly arillate, some- 

 times w-inged ; albumen fleshy or ; embryo usuallv large ; cotvledons 



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