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1. M. phyllanthoid.es, Benth. Leaves fleshy, alternate, oblong-obovate, 

 obscurely crenate and reticulate, glabrous ; flowers minute, clustered, appar- 

 pareiitly perfect; capsule obovate, 3-angled, 1 -celled, 1-3-seeded. South 

 Florida. Leaves 1' - \\' long. 



7. PACHYSTIMA, Raf. 



Calvx 4-lobed. Petals and stamens 4, inserted on the edge of the disk 

 that fills the throat of the calyx. Style very short ; stigma obscurely 2-lobed. 

 Capsule 2-celled, loculicidally 2-valved, 2-4-seeded, the seed arillate. Low 

 shrubs, with opposite persistent leaves, and minute axillary flowers. 



1. P. Canbyi, Gray. Leaves oblong-linear, denticulate near the tip; 

 flowers single, or clustered on the common peduncle ; petals oblong-ovate. - 

 Rocky cliffs on the mountains of North Carolina and Virginia. Shrub 1 or 

 more high. 



8. HIPPOCRATEA, L. 



Calvx small, 5-parted. Petals spreading, valvate or imbricate. Filaments 

 recurved ; anthers 1 - 2-celled. Disk expanded. Ovary free. Style short, 

 subulate, 3-cleft. Ovules 2 -6 in each cell. Carpels 3, united at the base, 

 2-val\ed, or indehiscent, few seeded. Seeds mostly winged. Climbing 

 .shrubs. Cymes or panicles dichotomous. 



1. H. OVata, Lam. Leaves elliptical-oblong, serrulate; panicles rusty- 

 pubescent, mostly longer than the leaves; petals oblong; carpels oval or 

 roundish. Borders of the Everglades (Curtiss). 



ORDER 40. ILICINE^E. (HOLLY FAMILY.) 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate simple leaves, and small white or 

 greenish flowers. Calyx 4 - 9-toothed. Corolla hypogynous, rotate, 

 4-9-parted, imbricated in the bud. Stamens 4-9, alternate with the 

 lobes of the corolla, and inserted on its base : anthers opening length- 

 wise. Ovary free from the calyx, 4 - 9-celled. Stigma lobed, nearly 

 sessile. Drupe berry -like, composed of 4-9 one-seeded nutlets. 

 Seeds anatropous, suspended. Embryo minute, in fleshy albumen. 



1. ILEX, L. HOLLY. 



Flowers perfect or diceciously polygamous, of 4 - 9 parts. Drupe containing 

 4-9 nutlets. Leaves evergreen or deciduous. Fertile flowers commonly 

 solitary on the young branches, the sterile ones mostly in sessile or peduncled 

 dusters or cymes. 



1. AQriFOLirM. Parts of the flotrer 4 : drupe red : nutlets ribbed or vein ij 



on t/ie back: leaves evergreen. 



1. I. opaca, Ait. ( HOLLY.) Smooth; leaves oval, concave, wavy and 

 spin v on the margins; sterile flowers cymose, on slender peduncles; calyx 

 Lilies acute. Sandv snil. April-May. A small tree. 



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