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Order XXXV. ILICINE^. 



Flowers regular, bisexual. Calyx 3-6-parted, imbricate. 

 Petals 4-5, rarely more, free or combined in a rotate corolla, 

 hypogynous, deciduous, imbricate. Stamens as many as the 

 petals, free or attached to the base of the corolla ; iilaments 

 subulate ; anthers introrse. Disk 0. Ovary free, 3-5- or 

 many-celled ; style or terminal ; ovules 1-2, pendulous. 

 Fruit a fleshy drupe, containing 3-18 bony, 1-seeded cells. — 

 Trees or shrubs, mostly evergreen, with shining leaves. 



1. ILEX, Linn. 



Flowers perfect. Calyx small, 4-6-toothed, persistent. 

 Corolla rotate, 4-6-parted, the segments obtuse, imbricated. 

 Stamens alternate with the lobes of the corolla ; filaments su- 

 bulate ; anthers introrse, erect. Ovary sessile, 4-6-celled ; 

 ovules 1-2, pendulous ; stigmas 4-6, sessile. Drupe fleshy, 

 subglobose, crowned with the stigmas. — Fl. Cap. i. p. 473. 



Evergreen shrubs or trees, widely dispersed. /. Cci'pensis, our only spe» 

 cies, found throughout the colony, is a large shrub or small tree, with ob- 

 long or lanceolate, shining, entire leaves, and axillary, fascicled, white 

 flowers. 



Order XXXVI. CELASTRINE^. 



Flowers mostly bisexual. Calyx small, 4-5-lobed or parted, 

 imbricate, persistent. Petals 4-5, short, spreading, sessile 

 under the margin of the disk, imbricate. Stamens 3-5 (rarely 

 2-10), inserted at the base, on the margin, on the surface, or 

 on the lobes of the disk ; filaments mostly short ; anthers 2- 

 ceiled. Disk conspicuous, convex or expanded or lobed. 

 Ovary sessile on or partly immersed in the disk, 3-5- (rarely 1-) 

 celled ; style short, simple or 2-3-fid ; ovules commonly 2, 

 mostly erect, rarely pendulous. Fruit a capsule drupe or 

 berry, or winged (samara) ; seeds with or without albumen. — 

 Trees and shrubs, often spinous. Leaves opposite or alternate, 

 mostly leathery, simple. Flowers axillary, small. 



Tribe 1. Celastee^. Stamens inserted on or beneath the margin of a 

 conspicuous, fleshy disk. Anthers introrse. 



Fruit capsular, dehiscent. 

 Leaves alternate. 



Ovules about 6 in each ovarian cell .... 1. Putteelichia. 

 Ovules 2 in each ovarian cell. 



Valves of capsule not winged 2. Gtmnospoeia. 



Valves of capsule dorsally winged .... 3. Pteeocelastefs. 



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