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XXXVII. 0LACINE2E. 
[Olax. 
i. Olacace.®. Trees or shrubs; flowers small usually white; stamens 
twice as many, or as many as petals and opposite them; ovary 2- to 5-celled, 
at last 1-celled at tip. 
Ovary superior. 
Stamens 3 to 5 free . . . . . 
Stamens 4 in a tube; calyx in fruit forming a 
large coloured disc ..... 
Tree; stamens 12 to 15; flowers in a long 
raceme; fruit a simple drupe 
Trees; stamens 10; fruit capsular; leaves 
opposite . . . . . . . 
Spiny shrub; stamens 8 to 10 free; fruit a 
drupe; leaves alternate .... 
Big tree; stamens 10 attached to petals; fruit 
a drupe ....... 
Stamens 6 in concavities of petals . 
Ovary inferior or partly inferior; stamens 5 
1. Olax 
2 . Harmandia 
3. OcHANOSTACHYS 
4. CXENOLOPHON 
5. XlMENIA 
6. SCORODOCARPUS 
7. Anacolosa 
8. SXROMBOSIA 
ii. Icacineje. Trees or shrubs; flowers white or green, unisexual or 
bisexual; stamens as many as petals and alternate with them; ovary rarely 
2-celled; fruit a drupe. 
Ovary and fruit 1-celled. 
Tree unisexual; sepals 5 distinct; flowers in 
short spikes ...... 
Shrubs unisexual; calyx cup-shaped 4-toothed; 
flowers cymose ...... 
Trees low; flowers bisexual rather large . 
Ovary and fruit 2-celled ; shrub; flowers bisexual; 
racemose corolla gamopetalous 
9. Plaxea 
10. Gomphandra 
11. SXEMONURUS 
12. Gonocaryum 
iii. Phyxocrene® . Climbing shrubs, unisexual or bisexual 4- to 5-merous, 
parts imbricate; ovary 1-celled; ovules 2. 
Monochlamy deous. 
Flowers 4-merous large lianes; flowers in 
racemed heads; fruit, head very large, bristly 
Flowers 5-merous slender climber; fruit not 
bristly ....... 
Dichlamydeous. 
Flowers unisexual; cymose panicled; fruit a 
drupe ....... 
Flowers unisexual in long cymes; fruit linear- 
oblong ....... 
Flowers bisexual; ovary half immersed in disc; 
fruit pericarp splitting in 4 valves red; seed 
dark blue ....... 
Doubtful plant ....... 
13. Phyxocrene 
14. Miquelia 
15. IODES. 
16. Lophopyxis 
17. Eryxhropalum 
18. Canxleya 
1. OLAX, Linn. 
Shrubs or trees sometimes scandent and thorny. Leaves altern¬ 
ate. Racemes axillary simple or branched, short. Calyx minute 
cup-shaped truncate accrescent. Petals 4 to 5 hypogynous valvate 
connate. Fertile stamens 3 opposite the petal-edges attached to 
base. Staminodes 5 or 6 opposite petals. Ovary free, usually 
surrounded by a cup-shaped disc, i-celled above, 3-celled below; 
ovules 3 linear; style simple; stigma 3-lobed. Drupe half 
