244. ILICINER. [ Ilex. 
slender about 4 lin. long pedicels, forming lax cymes arranged in 
slender flexuose pubescent panicles arising by pairs from between 
the opposite petioles, sometimes the one or other panicle or branch 
of it reduced to a pubescent twisting tendril ; petals pale tawny 
hirsute, about 4 lin. long ; calyx none. 
Has.—Tenasserim, Thounggyeen.—Fl. March. 
3-4 lin. long appre tawny hirsute petiole, cuspidate, entire or 
nearly so, membranous, much net-veined between the prominent, 
female flowers on short thick pedicels, forming rather short dicho- 
tomous pubescent leaf-opposed cymes ; corolla unequally 4-5-cleft, 
hirsute ; ovary ovoid-oblong, up to $ densely tawny-setose, further 
up simply pubescent, l-celled, with a solitary erect ovule ; drupes 
elliptically oblong, somewhat narrowed at base, about 1-14 in. long, 
glabrous, the pericarp fleshy ; seed solitary, erect. 
ILICINEZ. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or unisexual. Calyx 3-6-parted 
or- lobed, imbricate. Petals 4 or 5, rarely more or wanting, free or 
united at the base, hypogynous, imbricate. Stamens hypogynous, 
as many as petals or rarely more, free or slightly adhering to the 
petals ; filaments subulate ; anthers opening inwards, Disk none. 
( ee, 3-5- rarely many-celled, with 2 or 1 pendulous ovule 
in each cell ; style none or terminal ; stigma discoid or capitellate. 
Fruit a drupe containing a 2-5-celled stone or 4-8 crustaceous 
1-seeded pyrenes. Testa membranous. Albumen copious, fleshy.— 
Trees or shrubs, with alternate simple leaves. Stipules none- 
Flowers small, in axillary and terminal cymes or clusters. 
A small order differing from O/acinee simply in the more-celled 
ovary, and from Célastrinea in the absence of the disk and pendu- 
lous ovules. The berries of some are emetic, and the wood of Ive# 
aquifolium is much esteemed by European cabinet-makers. The 
Paraguay tea is the produce of Ilex Paraguayensis from South 
America. 
Petals present ; ovary 4-8-celled ; stamens 5 ‘ ‘ . . Ilex. 
No petals; ovary 2-celled . . . . « «4 ~~. « Daphniphyllum 
ILEX, L. 
. Flowers often hermaphrodite. Calyx persistent, 4- or 5-cleft. 
Corolla rotate, 4-6-parted. Stamens as many or twice as many 9 
