Mappia,'] 



27. OLACTNE^. 



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shrub or small tree easily recognised when in flower by the strong foetid 

 smell. I have specimens of both M. ovata, Miers, and M. foetida, Miers, 

 hut cannot find that they differ much from M. ohlonga, Miers. I am 

 inclined to think that there is only one species and not three. Elowera 

 at different times, usually during August. Fruit | in. ovoid, purple, 1-2- 

 seeded, endocarp brittle, rugose or tuberculate ; ripe two months after 

 flowering. Leaves used medicinally in cattle disease. 



Order 28. ILICINE^. 



Trees or s^nrubs usually evergreen. Leaves alternate, simple^ 

 extipulate or with two minute stipules. Flowers small^ in axillary 

 cymes, fascicles or umbellules, usually dioecious. Male with imperfect 

 ovary and female with imperfect stamens. Calyx 3-6-lobed. Petals 4-5, 

 connate at the base, sometimes free in the females, deciduous, imbricate 

 in bud. Stamens as many as petals, alternating with them, hypogy- 

 nous, free or adhering to the petals. Disk 0. Ovary free, 3-5-celled, 

 with a short style or sessile stigma ; ovules 1-2 in each cell, pendulous. 

 Drupe with two or more 1 -seeded free, rarely connate, stones. Seed 

 with a membranous testa, fleshy albumen and minute embryo. 



ILEX, L. 



Calyx 4-5-lobed or partite. Corolla rotate, petals free or connate 

 at the base. Stamens 4-5, adhering to the base of the corolla in the 

 male, sometimes hypogynous in the female. Ovary 2-12-celled ; 

 styles ; stigmas free or confluent on the top of the ovary. Drupe 

 globose, with 2-16 stones. 



I. malabarica, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 143 ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 600. I. Wighh 

 iawa,Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb.-Fl. 143; not of Wall. 



Western Peninsula from the Konkan southwards. On the Belgaum 

 and North Kdnara ghats, in evergreen forests; along the banks of streams 

 near Anmode, Supa sab-division of North Kanara. Fl. Feb.-Apl. Fr. 

 R. S. 



A large glabrous tree. Wood hard, yellowish- white. 



Order 29. CELASTRACE^. 



Shrubs or trees erect or climbing, branches sometimes spinescent. 

 Leaves simple, opposite or alternate. Stipules caducous or 0. Flowers 

 small, hermaphrodite or polygamous. Calyx 4-5-lobed. Petals 4-5, 

 inserted below the disk or continuous with its margin. Stamens 3-5, 

 alternate with petals. Disk usually conspicuous pulvinate or flattened, 

 lobed or entire, rarely 0. Ovary 3-5-celled, more or less immersed in 

 the disk, • ovules 2, erect, 1 pendulous, or many in each cell ; style 

 short or ; stigma triangular, rarely 3-partite. Fruit various. Albu- 

 men fleshy or ; embryo usually large ; cotyledons foliaceous, flat. 



