606 XL. iLiciNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [ifep. 



Xenasseeim ; at Tayoy, Gomez. 



Branches woody ; bark as in J. ajmosa, but apparently less inclined to flake. Leaves 

 brown when dry, pale beneath, with about 10 pair of very faint-spreading nerves, nar- 

 rowed into a petiole J in. long. 



24. X. scleropbjrlla, Rook f. ; leaves 5-6 in. elliptic-oblong obtuse 

 quite entire glaucous beneath thickly coriaceous, petiole short very thick, 

 cymes ? short with a very stout peduncle and pedicels. 



Malacca, on Mt. Ophir, Griffith. 



A very remarkable species, of which I have seen only two fragments. The leaves are 

 polished above, extraordinarily thick, narrowed into a very thick petiole 4 in. long. 

 Cyme 1 in., sparingly branched, branches apparently 3-flowered ; pedicels J in. 

 Flowers ? only with the corolla. Calyx of 5 short rounded ciliolate lobes. Petals 

 many, very small, unequal, free. Ovary ovoid, truncate ; stigma sessile. 



UNKHOWN SPECIES. 



I. DAPHifEPHYLLOiDES, Kurz in JouiTi. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, ii. 72, from Tongloo in 

 Sikkim, is described as 10-androus and hence cannot be an Ilex. 



- I. AsiATicA, lAnn. Sp. PI. 125. This is undeterminable ; no specimen exists in the 

 Linnean Herbarium. 



Oeder XLI. CELASTRINCO:. (By M. A. Lawson, F.L.S.) 



Trees or shrubs, erect or climbing. Branches sometimqs spinescent. 

 Leaves opposite or alternate, usually coriaceous, simple, petioled, rarely 

 subsessile ; stipules caducous or 0. i''fozi;ers hermaphrodite or polygamous, 

 usually cymose. Calyx small, 4-5-lobed, imbricate, persistent. Petals 

 4r-5, rarely 0, inserted below the disk or continuous with its margin, 

 imbricate. Stamens^?), rarely 2, filaments subulate or flattened ; anthers 

 2-celled. Disk usually conspicuous, pulvinate or flattened, lobed or entire, 

 rarely 0. Ovary sessile, the disk free at the base or confluent with it, 

 3-5-ceUed ; style short or 0, stigma triangular rarely 3-partite ; ovules 2 in 

 each cell, anatropous, erect, rarely 1 and pendulous, or many ascending 

 attached to the axis : raphe in those ascending ventral, in those which are 

 pendulous dorsal. _ -PV?(i< capsular, baccate, drupaceous or samaroid. Seed 

 arillate rarely exarillate, sometimes winged, albumen fleshy or ; embryo 

 usually large, cotyledons foliaceous flat. — Distkib. Species about 400, 

 scattered over the tropical aud temperate regions of the whole world. 



Teibb I. Celastreae. Stamens 4 or 5, rarely more, inserted on or 

 beneath the margin of the conspicuous disk ; filaments subulate, often 

 incurved. Seed (Kokoona excepted) albuminous. 



StTBTELBE I. EuoNYMXaE. Leaves opposite (rarely alternate in Lopho- 

 petalum). 



* Fruit a capsule, dehiscent. 



a. Ovules 1-2 in the axis of each cell. 



Petals free, efoveolate. Ovules 2 in each 1. EnONVMua. 



Petals free, 2-fqveolate. Ovules 1 in each cell, pendulous . . 2. Gltptopetalcm. 

 Petals connate, efoveolate, rarely 0. Ovules 2 in eacK ceil . 3. Mickoteopis. 



b. Ovules 4 or more in each cell. 



Ovary 3-4-celled. Seeds arillate, rarely winged, albuminous . 4. LoPHOPETALnM. 

 Ovary 3-oelled. Seeds exarillate, winged, exalbuminoua . . 6. Kokoona. 



