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ANACARDIACEAE. 



Spondias Mombin L., Hog Plum, West Indian, a large or middle-sized 

 tree, rough-barked when old, the alternate pinnate leaves of 7-17 ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate leallets 2'-4' long, the small, yellowish-white 

 flowers in large terminal panicles, the fruit a yellow ovoid large-stoned drupe 

 l'-2' long, is occasionally planted. [S. Ivtea L.] 



Anacardium occidentale L., Cashew-nut, of Tropical America, recorded 

 by Jones in 1873 as grown in Bermuda, is not mentioned by other authors. 

 It is a tree up to 25° high, with spreading branches, obovate or elliptic, 

 simple, entire, petioled leaves 4'-6' long, panicled small greenish flowers, and 

 leathery fruits, deeply notched, about 1' long, on greatly enlarged pedicels. 



Family 2. ILICACEAE Lowe. 

 Holly Family. 



Shrubs or trees, with watery sap, and alternate petioled simple leaves. 

 Flowers axillary, small, white, mainly . polygamo-dio€cious, regular. Stip- 

 ules minute and deciduous, or none. Calyx 3-6-parted, genei'ally persistent. 

 Petals 4—6 (rarely more), separate, or slightly united at the base, hypogy- 

 nous, deciduous, imbricated. Stamens hypog^mous, as many as the petals, 

 or sometimes more; anthers oblong, cordate. Disk none. Ovary 1, 

 superior, 3-several-celled ; stigma discoid or capitate; style short or none; 

 ovules 1 or 2 in each cavity. Fruit a small berry-like drupe, enclosing 

 several nutlets. Seed pendulous ; endosperm fleshy ; embryo straight. 



Three genera and about 300 species, of temperate and tropical regions. 



1. ILEX L. 



Leaves minutely stipulate. Flowers cymose or solitary, perfect or polyg- 

 amous. Calyx small, 4-5-cleft or 4-5-toothed. Petals 4-9, somewhat united at 

 the base, oblong, obtuse. Stamens of the same number, adnate to the base 

 of the corolla. Berry-like drupe globose, with 4-8 bony or crustaceous nutlets. 



[Ancient name of the Holly Oak.] 

 About 280 species, mostly of America. 

 Type species: Ilex Aquifolium L. 



1. Ilex vomitoria Ait. Cassexa. 

 Yaupon. Holly. Box. South Sea 

 Tea. (Fig. 247.) A shrub, or small 

 tree up to 20° high, the bark smooth. 

 Petioles and young twigs puberulent; 

 leaves ovate-oblong or elliptic, ever- 

 green, *'-lA' long, 4"-9" wide, ob- 

 tuse at both ends, crenate, glabrous, 

 pale beneath, dark green above; 

 petioles l"-2" long; staminate cymes 

 several-flowered, short-peduncled; fer- 

 tile Cannes sessile, 1-3-flowered; drupe 

 red, 2"-3" in diameter. [Ilex Cassine 

 of Lefroy, H. B. Small and Verrill.] 



Hillsides and borders of marshes, 

 especially in the central parishes. Nat- 

 uralized. Native of the southeastern 

 United States. Recorded as introduced 

 from Virginia in the 18th century. 

 Used for decorations at holiday time. 



Ilex Aquifolium L., European or English Holly, with evergreen ovate 

 spiny-serrate leaves and red fruit, was in a garden at St. George 's about 1875. 



