78 CELASTRACEAE. [Byronia. 
Orper XX. ILICINEAE. 
Flowers regular, often polygamous. Calyx of 3—6 sepals or lobes. 
Petals 4—10 (generally 5), hypogynous, mostly united into a lobed corolla, 
imbricate in the bud. Stamens as many, inserted on the base of the 
corolla and alternate with its lobes, or rarely free and hypogynous, 
usually short. Ovary 2- or several-celled. Ovules usually solitary in each 
sag and suspended, anatropous. Stigma sessile, or nearly so, entire or 
it 
Embryo small, near the top of fleshy albumen. — Shrubs or trees. 
Leaves alte rnate or rarely opposite, without stipules. Flowers usually 
y: 
y 3 olnaes. distributed over the temperate and warmer regions of the globe. 
1. BYRONIA, Endl. 
Flowers polygamous. Calyx small, 3—4-lobed; corolla 5—10-parted, 
the lobes of both imbricate. Stamens as many or twice as many as lobes 
of the corolla and inserted on its tube, the filaments subulate, the anthers 
short oblong, introrse. Ovary globose, 10—20-celled, each cell with 1 pend- 
ulous ovule, the stigma sessile, discoid, with 10—20 r rays. Fruit a drupe 
with 10—-20 cartilaginous kernels. — Trees, with alternate simple leaves. 
Flowers in trichotomous cymes. 
A genus of 3 species, one in Australia, one in Tahiti, and the following. 
andwicensis, Endl. in Ann. Wien. Mus. I, 184. — A handsome 
Gen 20—40 ft. high, quite glabrous. Line elliptico- oblong or obovate, 
x 5“, obtus g 
pressed nerves. Flowers numerous in cymose panicles of 2—4‘ in length, 
the naked and compressed peduncle 1 j2—2‘, the pedicels 3’, bibracteolate 
below the middle, the bractlets 1—11/2”. Calyx 1, coriaceous, 4-lobed 
the lobes rounded, Corolla 2“, rotate, white, deeply 6—10-cleft. Stamens 
6—10, half the Jength of the corolla, with short ovoid anthers. Stigma 
of 12-20 rays. Drupe — fleshy, globose, compressed, 3—4‘ in 
diameter, many-ribbed when dey: containing 10—20 separable pyrenas. — 
Bi Bot. U. S. E. E. p. ace pl. 26. — Ilex anomala, Hook. & Arn. in 
t. Beech. p. 111, tab. 25. 
Not uncommon in the middle woods of all islands. In the mountains of oo there 
is a very small-leaved form with panicles in every axil. Nat. name: «Kaa 
Orper XXI. CELASTRACEAE. 
Sepals 5 or 4, small, united at the base, imbricate in the bud, Petals 
as many, “inserted on the margin of a perigynous disk. Stamens as many, 
alternate with the vas or 3 only, inserted on the margin of the disk 
or upon it. Ovary more or less immersed in the disk , 2—5-celled, with 
