262 XXXV. ILICINE^. Vlex. 



1. I. peduncularis (pedunculate), F. v. M. Fragm. vii. 105. A small glab- 

 rous tree, perhaps dioeceous. Branchlets nearly terete. Leaves ohartaceous, 

 ovate or lanceolate-ovate, quite entire, short-acuminate, 2 to 4in. long, IJ to 

 Ifin. broad, here and there very minutely denticulate. Petiole 6 to 8 lines long. 

 Peduncles often 2in. long or now and then shorter, bearing umbels or little 

 corymbs. Pedicels 2 to 4 lines long. Flowers S-merous. Calyx scarcely 1 Une 

 high. Lobes semi-rotund, very thinly ciliate. Corolla white ; lobes H to 2 

 lines long, broad-ovate. Filaments free, subulate-eapillare, about 1 line long. 

 Anthers yellow, dorsifixed. Style short. 



Hab.: Eockingham Bay, J. Dallachy (F. v. M., I.e.) 



Oeder XXXVI. CELASTRINE^. 



Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or polygamous. Calyx small, persistent, 4 or 

 5-oleft, rarely 3 or 6-cleft. Petals as many as calyx-segments, spreading, imbricate 

 or rarely valvate in the bud. Stamens as many as petals and alternate with them, 

 inserted round the base or on the margin of the disk, or upon the disk itself ; 

 filaments usually short, incurved ; anthers short, 2-celled, the cells in a few 

 genera confluent into one. Disk usually conspicuous, more or less fleshy, flat or 

 broadly cup-shaped, or thick and conical, nearly free, or adnate to the base of the 

 calyx or confluent with the ovary. Ovary sessile on the disk, 2 to 5-celled, taper- 

 ing to a short style with an entire or lobed stigma ; ovules usually 2 in each cell, 

 ascending with a ventral raphe, occasionally several, rarely 1 only, or pendulous 

 with a dorsal raphe. Fruit a capsule, berry, drupe or samara, rarely divided into 

 distinct carpels. Seeds usually enveloped in an arillus, sometimes winged ; albumen 

 fleshy or almost horny or none ; embryo usually rather large, with flat cotyledons 

 and a short radicle next to the hilum. — Trees or shrubs, occasionally thorny, or 

 woody climbers. Leaves opposite or alternate, entire or toothed. Stipules 

 minute and very deciduous or none. Flowers small, white or greenish, in axillary 

 cymes or small racemes or in terminal panicles. 



A considerable Order, dispersed over the greater part of the globe, more abundantly within the 

 tropics than in temperate regions. Of the eleven Australian genera three only are endemic, the others 

 are all Asiatic, one extends to Africa and S. Europe but is not American, one is also tropical 

 American but not hitherto found in Africa, and two are both in America and Africa. The 

 peculiar disk readily characterises the greater number of genera, where that is wanting the 

 insertion of the ovules and inferior radicle are the chief points separating Celastrinea from 

 Ilicinece ; from . RJiamnece, with which the real affinity is much closer, the stamens alternating 

 with the petals is a constant distinctive mark. The majority of Gelastrineos assume also when 

 dry a peculiar pale-green colour, very rare in allied Orders. — Benth. 



Tribe I. Euonymese. — Leaves opposite (in the genus represented in Queensland). Fruit a 

 capsule, dehiscent. 

 Petals free, efoveolate. Ovules 2 in the axis of each cell 1. EttouYMUS. 



Tkibe II. Cela.streee. — Stamens the same number- as petals, inserted round the disk or on its 

 margin. Seeds albuminous. 

 Leaves alternate. Ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule loculicidal, coriaceous. 



Flowers in racemes or panicles. Stamens on the margin of the disk . . 2. Celastrus. 



Flowers in cymes. Stamens under the disk .3. Gymnospohia. 



Leaves alternate. Ovules 3 or more in each cell. 



Flowers few, axillary or terminal. Peduncles filiform. Anthers sessile . 4. Hedkaiaktheka. 

 Leaves alternate or opposite. Ovules many. 



Flowers in short axillary cymes. Filaments short. Anthers reniform . 5. Hypsophila. 

 Leaves alternate. Ovules 3 or more in each cell. Capsule loculicidal, 

 woody or bony. 



Flowers in cymes. Stamens on the margins of the disk (i. Denhamia. 



Leaves alternate. Flowers 5-merous. Petals valvate. Fruit a small 



globose berry, 2 — 4-celled, 2 to 4-seeded 7. Cabyospermdm. 



Leaves mostly opposite. Ovules 2 in each cell. Drupe indehiscent, 2 or 



3-celled . . . . .... 8. ELiEODENDROx. 



