53 , AQUlEOLlACEAl OR ILiCACEJE. 
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bility, and was said on tlie spot to be as hard as but less heavy 
than that of the u Carrisco ” or u Palo branco ” ( Notelcea excelsa 
(Ait.)). 
Webb relates that in the Canaries a syrup is made from the 
fr. and occasionally used as an astringent medicine. In Mad. 
the fr. is quite neglected and scarcely eaten even by children, 
being dry with little sweetness and merely an astringent 
flavour. 
Visnea has assuredly, as remarked by Mr. Johnson, some 
affinity with Cldlira ; but certainly not enough to warrant its 
removal from Ternstroemiace^e to Ericaceae. 
Ebexace.k. Distinguished from Ternstra rn iaccce by little but the 
normally diclinous or rarely perfect gamopetaious 3-7-lobed 
fl. and mostly straight or slightly hooked embryo with folia - 
ceous ovate cot. and cartilaginous alb. — A Mad. spec, of 
Diospyros Lotus L. from the garden of the S ta Clara Convent 
occurs in the Banks. Herb, and is included in Fydell’s MS, 
Mad. List though not mentioned in Von Buell’s. There was 
also, in 1830, a small pi. of it in the garden of the late Rob. 
Page Esq. K.T.S. at the Mount. But there is no ground at 
all for supposing it to have ever been indigenous to Mad. 
Order LIII. AQUIFOLIACEiE or ILICACE^E. 
The Holly Tribe or Family. 
Fl. regular perfect or imperfect (diclinous or polygamous). 
Cal. 3-0- (mostly 4-5-)lid or toothed, imbricate in bud, mostly 
persistent. Cor. hypogynous deciduous, mostly gamopetaious, 
lobes or pet. 4-0 mostly 4 or 5 and connate at the base, rarely 
free, imbricate. Stam. definite 1-seriate, as many or rarely 
twice as many as, alternate with, and mostly adnate to the pet. 
at their base or subperigynous. Anth. erect introrsal exappen- 
diculate. Hypogynous disk 0. Ov. free 2-many-celled ; style 
0 or very short; stigma sessile or subsessile, lobed, discoidal or 
capitate ; ovules anatropal 1-2 in each cell, pendulous, funicle 
sometimes cup-shaped. Fr. a thinly fleshy 2-many-pyrenous 
pome ; pyrenae 1 -seeded bony. Seed pendulous anatropal ; em- 
bryo very small straight at the top of the abundant fleshy albu- 
men ; cot. small ; radicle superior. — Evergreen mostly smooth 
tr. or shr. with aqueous astringent viscid juices and hard or at 
least close w. wood. L. coriaceous alternate simple, with- 
out stip. Fl. small w. dicbotomously cymose or single on 
solitary or aggregate axillary ped. Fr. small berry-like glo- 
bose. 
