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ILEX DENTICULATA. (Nat. ord. Ilioinea.) 



ILEX. Linn. — GEN. CHA.R. Flowers unisexual or hermathrodite, calyx small persistent 4 6 cleft, petals 4-6 connate at the base into a 

 rotate corol hypogynous imbricate, stamens as many as the petals and alternate with them and inserted on the corol, anthers oblong, ovary sessile sub globose 

 4-6 (rarely 7-8) celled, style none or short thick, rarely elongate, stigmas as many as the ovary cells, distinct or combined, ovules 1-2 in each cell collateral, 

 drupe globose, putamen 4-5 celled, or with 4-8 long or crustaceous pyrenes. Trees or shrubs, leaves alternate generally shining entire or toothed or spinose, 

 inflorescence axillary. — Pseudehretia, Tuxes. 



ILEX DENTICULA.TA. (Wall.) A. very large tree glabrous or the young parts minutely puberulous, leaves very 

 coriaceous glabrous and rather shining above, paler beneath ovate to oblong, acute- acuminate or obtuse at the apex serrated, 2£ to 

 3| inohes long by 1-lf broad, petioles £ to | an inch long channelled above, peduncles axillary very short, pedicels numerous minutely 

 puberulous 3-4 lines long simple or again bearing 3 pedicels, flowers tetramerous, petals only connate at their very base at least in the 

 male flowers (I have no fertile flowers for dissection), stamens inserted at the very base of the oorol on to the connate portion between 

 the petals. Wight III. lab. 1 42* 



This large timber tree is nat uncommon oil the higher ranges of the Nilgiris and Anamallays at 6000 8000/««tf, and at similar eleva- 

 tions in Ceylon, its timber is much valued and is said not to warp or crack, it is at once distinguiihed from the other species by its serrated- 

 leaves and 4 merous flowers. 



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