81 . ME. J. MTERS ON THE CERVANTES1EJE. 



bisinuata, angulis obtusis subinflexis, glabra, smaragdina, laciniis caly- 

 cinis alterna. Stamina 5, margini disci inserta, segmentis alterna et 

 sequilonga; filament a subulata,irao corapressa, apice subito inflexa; an- 

 therce didymae, loculis ovatis, sine connectivo paulum sub apice affixis, 

 post dehiscentiam applanatis. Discus epigynus, subconvexus, carno- 

 sus, intus vacuus, cavitate cum ovarii loculo continua ; stylus sub- 

 brevis, subulatus ; stigma cupulatum, margine subdentatum. Ova- 

 rium 1 turbinatum, parvum, viride, 1-loculare; ovula 3, minuta, ab 

 apice placenta centralis libera crassiuscubc suspensa. Drupa ovata, 



structura ignota. 

 Arbusculse demissce, in regione Argentina vigentes, iterum iterumque 

 ramosce, glaberrimce ; folia alterna^ brevissime petiolata, rhombiformia, 

 angulis spiniferis, rigidissima. Flores plurimi, parvi, supra pedun- 

 culum br event axillarem bifidum velutinum crebre congesti. 



1. Iodina cunlifolia, nob. — Ilex cuneifolia, Plum, hi Icon. 

 ined. v. tab. 152 ; Plum. PI. Amer. edit. Burm. ii. p. 109, tab. 118. 

 fig. 2 (1757); Linn. Sp. PI. 181 (1762); Lam. (in parte) Diet. 

 iii. p. 148 (1789) ; Willd. Sp. PL i. p. 712 (1797) ; DC. Prodr. 

 ii. p. 16 (1825). In regione Argentina, Rio Uruguay (Tiveedie 

 et Baird), lect. in 1830, sec. Hook. & Arn, : non vidi. 



A species first made known to us by Burmann in 1757, in his 

 edition of Plunder's ' Plant. Amer.,' the locality not being stated ; 

 this has since been found to be Monte Video. An earlier date than 

 the above must be assigned to this plant, as Burmann copied his 

 drawing from Plumier's inedited volumes. Who gathered the plant 

 thus figured is not known ; but it must have been some collector 

 prior to the time of Commerson, who visited Monte Video in 1767. 

 The only collector known to us prior to that date is Dampier, 

 who landed on that coast between 1680 and 1700, and who made 

 botanical collections at every place visited by him. Linnaeus 

 enumerated the plant in 1762, referring to Burmann as his 

 authority. It is next described by Lamarck in 1789, who coupled 







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quadrangular, with axils 4-6 lines apart ; leaves alternate, rigid, 

 rhomboidally oblong, very cuneiform from near the summit to 

 the base, the angles acute (not spinescent), horizontally many- 

 nerved, 2| in. long, If in. broad (the terminal leaf 3^ in. long, 2 in. 

 broad at the angles), on petioles ^ line long. According to 

 Lamarck, who saw Commerson's specimen, tlie flower is axillary, 



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Ovarium biloculare, loculis 1-ovulatis ' (Hook. & Arn.); "1-loculare; 



ovula 3, ex apice placentae libera; suspensa" (Baillon, Reieseck). 



