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XXXVIII. ILICINE^E. 
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Order XXXVIII. ILICINEtE 
Trees or shrubs with alternate coriaceous leaves. Flowers 
small white yellowish or pink on axillary cymes, fascicles or rarely 
racemes. Sepals 4 or 5 rounded connate at base often unequal. 
Petals 5 or 6 connate at base, rarely quite free, larger rounded. 
Stamens 5 shorter or longer than the petals adnate to them ; fila¬ 
ments subulate; anthers small. Ovary in female flower 2- to 
12-celled; ovules 1 or 2; style 0 or very short. Stigma capitate. 
Drupe globose small of 2 to 16 pyrenes. Genera 3, species 220, 
tropics and temperate zone. Petals connate at base; stamens as 
many; ovary 4- to 6-locular. Species about 150, whole world. 
1 . ILEX, Linn. 
Flowers of both sexes in simple racemes 
Flowers in axillary fascicles; leaves 1 to 2 in. 
long, coriaceous usually serrate . 
Leaves '5 in. long obovate 
Leaves *5 in. long ovate acute serrate at top 
Leaves 3 by 1*5 to 2 in. very coriaceous 
entire elliptic to obovate . 
Leaves elliptic acuminate 5 by 2’25 in. 
entire; flowers large .... 
Leaves elliptic acuminate undulate thin 4 
by 1'25 in.; flowers rather small . 
Leaves elliptic crenulate thick 7 by 3 in.; 
fruits ’4 in. through .... 
Flowers in peduncled cymes. 
Peduncles short - i to '2 in. long. 
Leaves elliptic blunt very coriaceous pale 
beneath entire 2 by 1 in. 
Leaves elliptic blunt, entire very cori¬ 
aceous 5 by 3 in. 
Leaves elliptic blunt-cuspidate entire 3 by 
1*5 in. 
Leaves thin coriaceous elliptic entire 6 by 
2- 5 in. 
Peduncle -5 in. long; pedicels as long 
3- flowered; leaves lanceolate; nerves 
depressed above 3 by 75 in. 
Peduncle, 6 in. long slender; branches 2 with 
short branchlets; leaves rather thin 
elliptic-lanceolate, 5 by 1*25 in. . 
Cymes panicled many-flowered umbelled; 
pyrenes 5 or 6; leaves ovate-elliptic 
cuspidate stiff ; 
Pyrenes 8; cymes lax; flowers and fruit 
small ...... 
Cymes compact; flowers and fruit larger 
(1) I. malaceensis 
(2) I. triflora 
( 3 ) I. myrtillus 
(4) I. polyphylla 
(5) I. epiphytica 
( 6 ) I. grandiflora 
(7) I. glomerata 
( 8 ) I. illustris 
(9) I. rupicola 
(10) I. sclerophylla 
(11) I. sclerophylloides 
(12) I. Maingayi 
{13) I. patens 
(14) I. pauciflora 
(15) I. venulosa 
(16) I. cymosa 
(17) I. macrophylla 
(1) I. malaceensis Loesener Monogr. Aquifol. 432. I. spicata 
Hook. fit. F.B.I. i. 508; King, l.c. 134, not of Blume. 
Shrub 10 to 18 ft. tall. Leaves coriaceous elliptic caudate- 
