1895.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 133 
the facts that, although there are two cells in the ovary of Pteleocarpa , 
there is only 1 ovule in each ; and that both genera have two stigmas 
which are to some extent persistent in the fruit. The fruits of the two 
are strikingly alike, both being samaroid; and in this respect differing 
from all the other Asiatic genera which it has ever been proposed to in¬ 
clude in Olacinese. So great are the affinities of the two genera with each 
other, and so great their divergence from the other genera in the order, 
that I think they ought either to be separated as a tribe of Olacinece or 
that the Natural family Gar diopter idese first suggested by Blume, partially 
approved of by R. Brown, and adopted by Baillon, should be kept up, and 
that Pteleocarpa should be added to it. 
Order XXX.—Ilicinejj. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, simple, exstipulate, or with 2 
minute stipules, usually coriaceous and evergreen. Flowers small, in 
axillary cymes fascicles or umbellules, usually dioecious ; cT with imper¬ 
fect ovary, and $ with imperfect stamens. Calyx 3-6-partite or -lobed ; 
segments or lobes imbricate, persistent. Petals 4-5, rarely 6-8, connate 
at the base, or connate in the c? and free in the $ , deciduous, imbricate. 
Stamens 4-5, adhering to the bases of the petals, sometimes free and 
hypogynous in the $ : filaments subulate; anthers shortly oblong, dorsi- 
fixed. Disk 0. Ovary free, 3-16-celled; style 0, or very short, rarely 
long, stigma capitate or discoid ; ovules J , or 2 collateral, pendulous, 
raphe dorsal, micropyle superior, funicle often cupular. Drupe with 2 or 
more 1-seeded, free, rarely connate stones. Seed with a membranous 
testa, fleshy albumen and minute embryo. —Distrib. Three genera, and 
about 220 species, chiefly tropical. 
1. Ilex, Linn. 
Calyx 4-5-lobed or -parted. Corolla with petals free or connate at 
the base and rotate. Stamens 4-5, adhering to the base of the corolla 
in the d 1 , sometimes hypogynous in the 9. Ovary 2-J2-celled ; styles 
0 or very short, stigmas free or confluent on the top of the ovary. 
Drupe globose, very rarely ovoid, with 2—16 stones.— Distrib. Of the 
Order; species about 220. 
Blowers of both sexes in simple axillary 
racemes ... ... ... 1. I. spicata. 
Blowers in axillary fascicles. 
Pyrenes 6 or 7 
Leaves very obtuse, entire ... ... 2. I. epiphytica , 
Pyrenes 4 
Leaves acute, serrulate ... ... 3. I. Grijfithii . 
