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3. Gomphandra, corolla campanulate 4 or 5-lobed, stamens 5, drape 

 surmounted by the remains of the disk. * G. axillaris. (Platea a. 

 D.) leaves lanceolate, flowers whitish in very short cymes, calyx 

 minute, fruit half an inch long, smooth. 



4. Mappia, calyx lobes, petals and stamens 5, disk cup-shaped. 



* M. oblonga. Leaves oblong pointed, flowers yellowish in panicles, 

 hairy and fetid, drupe small succulent, olive-shaped. Gur, kalgur, 

 gdnera. 



5. Sarcostigma, climbing shrubs with diaecious flowers, stamens 5, 

 drupe with corolla and calyx attached at the base. *S. kleinii, leaves 

 oblong, fruit oval, size of a large nutmeg, bright orange-red, wrinkled, 

 in log pendant racemes. 



ORDER 34. ILICINE-ffi. The holly family. 

 Flowers clustered, without disk, ovary free. 



Ilex, calyx lobes and stamens 4 or 5, corolla rotate, anthers oblong. 



* J. malabarica (L Wightiana, D.). Leaves oval or oblong, entire, 

 leathery, flowers white in very short umbels, drupe size of a pea, red, 

 with 5 or 6 etones. Ilex aquifolium is the holly of English woods 

 and shrubberies. The Ilex tree or evergreen oak, Quercus ilex, has 

 nothing to do with this order. From the leaves of various species 

 of this genus the liquor mate is produced, much used in S. America 

 as tea, called there the herb of Paraguay, and the Caa tree. The 

 Abbe Eaynal describes the process, and Southey speaks of the tree 

 as more fatal than the Upas, owing to the great mortality which 

 took place among the natives sent, "through many a land of mines 

 and slavery," to pick the leaves. 



The next three orders form a very natural group, having all 

 woody stems, small greenish flowers and conspicuous disk, and 

 (except tribe Hippocrateae) 4 or 5 petals and stamens. Many 

 of the species are of a climbing habit. 



Order 35. CELASTBINEJE. 



Trees or shrubs, leaves simple, petals sometimes wanting, 

 inserted below the disk ; seeds usually with an aril. 

 Tribe 1. Celastreae. Stamens 4 or 5. 



1. CELASTRUS. Climbing shrubs with alternate leaves and 

 polygamous flowers : disk broad concave, ovary free from the 

 disk, stigma 3-lobed, capsule roundish. 



2. GYMNOSPORIA. Leaves alternate, stamens inserted 

 below the broad disk with which the ovary is united, style 2 

 or 3-lobed, capsule roundish. 



