CELASTRINEA. 5327 
Order XXXVII. ILICINEZ. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, simple, usually coriaceous 
and evergreen; stipules 2 minute, or Flowers regular, ae 
usually 1-sexual, dicecious, ¢ with im pephest ovary, ? wit 
perfect stamens, in axillary cymes fascicles or small abet. 
Disk 0. Sepals united in a 3—6-partite or -lobed calyx; segments 
imbricate. Petals 4-5, rarely 6-8, connate below in both sexes or 
in ¢ only, citar at ee e. Stamens 4-5, adhering to the 
bases of the petals, o ? the imperfect stamens sometimes free 
and hypogynous ; Pena subulate; anthers versatile ; dehiscence 
longitudinal, lateral. Carpels connate as a free 3-16-locular ovary ; 
style 0 or very short, rarely long, stigma capitate or discoid; ovules 
lor 2 collateral in each loculus, pendulous, with raphe dorsal and 
funicle often cu upular. Fruit a drupe with 2 or more free rarely 
connate 1-seeded stones. Seed witha membranous testa; albumen 
fleshy ; embryo minute. 
476. Ilex Linn. 
Shrubs or trees; leaves alternate, usually coriaceous and ever- 
green, sometimes deciduous; stipules minute or 0. Flowers small, 
in axillar cymes fascicles or umbellules, dicecious or polygamo- 
ae Calyx 4-lobed or -partite ; lobes imbricate. Petals free 
sbieey apica 
. Inex Gis agzam Colebr.; F. B. I. i. 604; E. D. I. 17. 
Chittagong; N. Bengal, Dua: 
A tree with pale ashy bark; sence deciduous. 
Order XXXYIII. CELASTRINEZ. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or ma small, 
ey opiate, Disk generally conspicuous, 
