Iode8.^ XXXIX. OLACINEiE (OLIVLK). :j5y 



Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto and Cazerij^o, Angola (feinak flowers) , iJr. Wt/^iltck .' 



Pbytocrene: Imperfect specimens of perhaps 2 species of this lieniis wen- not 

 home by Dr. Kirk from Sierra Leone and S. tropical Africa. They are insufficient for de- 

 scription. 



Order XL. ILICINE^ (by Truf. Olivor). 



Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or subdiciioious. Calyx 3 fi-loothcd or 

 -partite, usually persistent. Petals 3 6, free or conunte h.low, hyporrvnouH. 

 imbricate. Stamens as many as the petals, alternate with thrm, fr^eor ad- 

 herent to the petals. Anthers rotundate or subcordate, dehisririf^ lonf^ilii- 

 dinally. Ovary ovoid or globose, free, 3 6-celled ; style terminal or 0. 

 "Ovules 1 or 2 in each cell, pendulous. Fruit dnipaceous, with 3 or more 

 bony 1-seeded pyrenes. Seeds with a fleshy albumen ; embryo minute, 

 apical, with a superior radicle." — Trees or shrubs, usually glabrous and ever- 

 green. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, petiolate, coriaceous, entire dentate or 

 •sinuous-spinose. Flowers small, in axillary cymes or umbels, often pedun- 

 culate. 



A small Natural Order chiefly American and Asiatic, with a few outliers in the N. tem- 

 perate zone. By far the greater number of species belong to the genus I/ex. The only 

 tropical African representative appears to be peculiar to the continent. 



1. ILEX, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 356. 



Petals usually connate at the base. Stamens as many as petals. Ovary 

 4-6-celIed. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves usually shining. Inflorescence axil- 

 lary. 



A large genus widely dispersed in tropical and temperate regions, represented by the com- 

 mon Holly in Britain. 



L I. capensis, Sond. and Harv. Fl. Capensis, i. 473. A glabrous 

 shrub or tree, attaining sometimes 30-40 ft. Leaves rather coriaceous, ob- 

 long-elliptical or oval, acute, mucronate, occasionally broadly acute or rather 

 obtuse, more or less acute at the base, rather remotely serrulate or denticu- 

 late-serrate towards the apex or entire, 2^-4 in. long, f-l^ in. broad; pe- 

 tiole ^-| in. Flowers in shortly pedunculate umbels, 5-merous or 6-mcrous. 

 Petals connate below. Berries ovoid-globose, crowned by the sessile or sub- 

 sessile obtuse stigma (in the Cape specimens). — For synonymy, see ' Flora 

 Capensis.' 



Upper Guinea. Camaroons mountain, 4000-8000 ft., Mann! 



Ijo-wer Guinea. Angola, prov. Huilla, Dr. irelwitsch ! 



Also at the Cape. 



Order XLL CELASTRACE^ (by Prof. Oliver). 



Flowers small, regular, usually hermaphrodite. Calyx 4 5-lobe<i or -par- 

 tite, persistent. Petals 4-5, usually spreading, sessile or subsessile around 

 or below the margin of the disk, imbricate. Stamens as many as petals or 



