154 XXXII. ICACINACE^ [Sarcostigma 



sessile clusters along a long slender rachis. Calyx small 4-5-lobed, petals 

 5, nearly free. Stamens 5, alternating with, petals, filaments flat, glabrous. 

 Ovary hairy, stigma sessile, conical. Fr. 1~H' in., bright orange-red, albumen 

 0, cotyledons fleshy, wrapping round the short superior radicle. 



Western Ghats, in evergreen forests, from the Konkan southwards. Fl. Nov. Closely 

 allied is : 2. S. Wallichii, Baillon. (£'. eclule, Kurz.) L. downy beneath, spikes rusty 

 tomentose. Drupe clothed with orange-coloured down, pulp edible. 



Natsiatum herpeticum, Ham. Sikkim Terai and outer valleys. Assam, Khasr hills, 

 Chittagong, Pegu Yoma. A large climber, with thin wiry branches; branchlets, 

 petioles, leaves and inflorescence rough with short stiff hairs. L. cordate, basal nerves 

 5-7, blade 4-6 in., petiole 2-5 in. long. Fl. dioecious, pentamerous, in long slender 

 bracteate spiciform hirsute racemes. Sepals and petals hairy, linear-lanceolate, fertile 

 stamens alternating with staminodes, which are opposite to petals, filaments very 

 short, anthers sagittate. Drupe J in., black, cotyledons fleshy, orbicular, in a fleshy 

 albumen. 



7. IODES, Blnme ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 505. 



Shrubs climbing by means of woody axillary or extra-axillary tendrils 

 L. opposite. Fl. dioecious, small, in short cymes on thick pedicels or in ample 

 cymose axillary or extra-axillary panicles. Calyx small, cup-shaped, 5-toothed, 

 corolla 3-5 lobed, outside densely clothed with long hairs. Stamens alternating 

 •with segments of corolla. Stigma sessile, 5-lobed. Drupe supported by the 

 persistent calyx, cotyledons flat leafy, radicle superior, in fleshy albumen. 

 Species about 8. Tropical Africa and Indo-Malayan region. 



1. I. Hookeriana, Baillon ; Kurz F. Fl. i. 244. 



Branchlets and underside of leaves tawny-strigose. L. elliptic-oblong, base 

 acute or slightly cordate, 4-8 in., petioles |-§ in. long, venation conspicuously 

 reticulate beneath. Cymes short few fid. Drupe l-l| in., yellowish-red. 



Assam, Khasi hills, Chittagong. Fl. C. S. Closely allied and perhaps not specifically 

 distinct is 2 : I. Thomsoniana, Baillon, Chittagong, an immense climber, 1. obovate 

 acuminate, narrowed into a cordate base. 3. I. ovalis, Blnme (J. tomentella, Kurz F, 

 Fl. i. 243). Tenasserhn, Malay Peninsula. L. ovate acuminate, panicles ample, drooping, 

 much longer than leaves. /. Brandisii, Kurz, Thoungyeen, is probably not distinct. 



Order XXXIII. ILICINE^l. Geu. PI. i. 355. 



(Aquifoliacece, Engler u. Prantl iii. 5. 183.) 



ILEX, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 598. 



Shrubs or trees, wood white, close-grained. L. alternate, simple, usually 

 coriaceous and (in Indian species, with few exceptions) evergreen, stipules 

 minute. At the base of the current year's internode are frequently imperfect 

 bract-like leaves which had enveloped the leaf buds. Fl. usually dioecious, some- 

 times bisexual, in axillary cymes. Calyx 4-5 lobed, corolla rotate, petals free 

 or connate at the base, deciduous, imbricate. Stamens 4-5, alternating with 

 petals, adhering to the base of corolla, the imperfect stamens in the ? some- 

 times hypogynous. Ovary 2-12-celled. Stigmas 2-12 sessile or nearly sessile, 

 free or confluent. Drupe globose, supported by the persistent calyx, stones 

 2-16, 1-seeded, embryo minute in a fleshy albumen. Species over 20.0, cosmo- 

 politan, the majority tropical. 



A. Fl. 4-merous, in dense short axillary, frequently branched cymes. 



(a.) L. generally spinescent. 



1. I. dipyrena, Wall. PI. As. Bar. t, 292; Brandis, F. Fl. 76 t. 15. 



