94 TETRANDRIA, TETRAGYNIA. 



ORDER IV. TETRAGYNIA. 



88. ILEX, Gen. pi. 232. (Rhamni.J 



Calix minute, 4, 5 toothed. Corolla rotate, 

 4- parted. Style 0. Stigmata 4. Berry 

 4- seeded. 



opaw. 1. I. leaves oval, with rigid, spreading, spinous 



teeth ; fascicles of flowers lax, on compound pe- 

 duncles ; calices somewhat acute, smooth j fruit 

 ovate. — Mich, 



Icon. Mich. f. Arbres forest, t. 11. 



A beautiful evergreen tree, bearing scarlet berries. In 

 Jersey, near Haddonfield, rare. June. 



W. TIL Lit A, L. ( Sempet viva. J 



Calix 3 or 4-parted. Petals 3 or 4, equal. 

 Capsules 3 or 4, two or many -seeded. Sta- 

 mina sometimes 8, 4 sterile. — Nutt, 



simplex, i, T. stem erect, simple ; leaves connate, oblong- 

 linear, somewhat acute ; flowers alternate, sessile ; 

 petals erect, twice the length of the calix. — Nutt. 



Stem generally simple, erect and terete, (two or three inches 

 high) sometimes decumbent near the base, and sending out 

 whitish radical fibres, tinged with red, similar to the proper 

 root. Leaves connate, succulent, convex on the under side, 

 fragile, very entire, and without visible nerves or veins (three 

 or four lines long, and about a line wide) Flowers sessile, 

 axillary, solitary, and alternate. Calix four-toothed, segments 

 alternating with the petals, two of the exterior dentures some- 

 what larger and obtuse. Petals four, ovate, erect, and persist- 

 ent, never apparently expanding, whitish and membranaceous, 

 embracing the capsules with which they are almost exactly 

 equal in length. Stamina four, fertile, alternating with the 

 petals, a little shorter than the germs ; anthers very small. 



