ILICACEAE. 2i5 



1. Mangifera indica L. Sp, PI, 200. 1753. 



A large tree, sometimes 20 m. high or more, with a trunk up to 2.5 m. in 

 diameter, the branches spreading, the stout twigs glabrous. Loaves coriaceous, 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 15-25 em. long, acute, acuminate or sometimes 

 blunt at the apex, narrowed at the base, glabrous, dark green above, the 

 petioles about 2.5 cm, long; panicles large, terminal, puVjescent, the flowers 

 very numerous, green, about 4 mm. wide; fruit pendulous, usually 8-12 cm. 

 long, smooth, greenish or yellowish, the flesh soft and juicy, 



Wood-lands, New rrovidence. Naturalized. Native of tropical Asia. Widely 

 naturalized in the West Indies and tropical continental America. Man.;.".. 



COMOCLADIA iNTEGitiFOLiA L., recorded by Dolley, lias not been found 1)V us on 

 any of the cays or islands of the archipelago; it is only known to inhabit Jamaica 

 and Hispaniola. 



AxACARDiuM occidentAle L. and Spondias li'tea T>., recorded as Bahamian by 

 Dolley, have not been found by us in a wild state within the archipelago. 



Family 3. ILICACEAE Lowe. 



Holly Family. 



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

 Flowers axillary, small, white, mainly polygamo-dioeeioiis, regular. Stip- 

 ules minute and deciduous, or none. Calyx 3-6-parted, generally per- 

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

 hypogynous, deciduous, imbricated. Stamens hypogynous, 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, enclos- 

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

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



1. ILEX L. Sp, PI, 125. 1753, 



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

 amous. Calyx small, 4-5-cleft or 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. [An- 

 cient name of the Holly Oak,] About 280 species, mostly natives of America. 

 Type species: Ilex Aquifolium L. 



Leaves dark green above, pale beneath. 1. I.Cassinc. 

 Leaves dark green above and beneath. 



Leaves obovate. obtuse or emarginate. 2. /. nitamUi. 



Leaves ovate-elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. W. I. Krugiana. 



1. Ilex Cassine L. Sp. PL 125. 1753. 



A shrub, or small tree. Twigs pubescent; leaves oblanceolate or oblong- 

 obovate, 5-10 cm. long, 1.25-2.5 cm. wide, acute at the base, glabrous and dark 

 green above, pale and usually pubescent beneath; petioles (i-S mm. long; 

 staminate cymes several- or many-flowered; peduncles and jiedicels pubescent; 

 fertile cymes commonly 3-flowered; calyx-lobes ciliate; drupes re.l, globose, 

 4-6 mm. in diameter. 



I'almetto-lands, and coppices, Great Bahama, at Barnett's Toint : Andros. near 

 Staniard Creek : — Virginia to Florida and Louisiana ; Cuba. Dahoon IIollv. 



