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^•^•] XL. iLiciNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 699 



J^upe I in. long, broadly ovoid, much compressed, with a sessile transversely elongated 



sti<;tua on its broad truncate end, and 10-16 minute compressed coriaceous stones.— A 



very c^nous plant, which I assume to be Blume's /. spicata. Maingay's specimens' are 



m 6 flowers only, and I have described the drupe from Bomean ones collected by 

 iieccari. , ^ 



Sect. II. Flowers in very dense short axillary branched cymes, pedicels 

 very short, ^ and ? 4-merous. Drupes subsessile in the axils, 1-4-celled 

 (pedicelled in /. odorata). 



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Hook, f. 



anceolate obscurely serrate very coriaceous yo 

 ubsessile large with a rugose 1-3-seeded stone. 



ung spinous-toothed, drupe 



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SiKKJM Himalaya; at Darjeeling, alt. 7000 ft. . 



A small evergreen erect tree ; branchlets as thick as the little finger, grooved* 

 vcope^ very thick, acute, narrowed into the stout petiole, which is f-1 in.; nerves be- 

 eath very stout and much reticulated; young oblong-lanceolate, base rounded, margins 

 Bf'inous, petiole shorter. Floicers 4-merous, ^1n. diara., in subglobose clusters Jin. 

 ZoL^'V^*^^"' P^^^^^'^ "^'CJ^y short, stout; bracts opposite, small, ovate, acute. Calyx- 

 &e« broadly ovate, acute or obtuse. Petals orbicular-obovate, connate below in the 

 th' r'^^'"^^^. equalling the petals, inserted on the corolla in the cf , filaments very 

 ,^^^'^'*^}^entary'Ovaryg\o\)Q^Q, with 4 minute papillee as stigmas. Ovary oi ? 

 •ceued; stigma sessile, discoid, 4-lobed. Drwpe | in. diam., globose, with a globose 

 -o-celled l-3-8eeded grooved woody stone formed of 4 connate stones. — Closely allied 

 ' ^^Ptjrena^ but a very much larger plant in all its parts, with shorter stamens and 

 ^T®^J. different structure of the drupe. Still more closely allied to the Japanese L 

 JoLm^ Thunb., which has 4 separate stones in the drupe. 



a I._ dipyrena, Wallin Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed.'Carey, i. 473; Fl. As. 



^'^- 111. 68, t. 292; Cat. 4327; branches stout, leaves 3-4 in. elliptic- 



^nceolate 



snK- • spmous-serrate very coriaceous, the old quite entire, drupe 

 ^"Sessile with 2 rarely more plano-convex deeply-grooved stones, 

 ^wi Prodr. 188 ; DC. Frodr. ii. 15 ; Brandis For. Flor. 76. 



nr%^ERATE HiMALATA ; from Simla, alt. 5-8000 ft., to SIkkim, alt. 7-9000 ft., 



slin*^ ^^^^Sroen tree 30-40 ft. ; trun\ sometimes 17 feet girth ; shoots pilose. Leaves 

 with ^\^-'^^ young very spinous, the older with scattered marginal spines, the oldest 

 aill ^ ^"^^kened quite entire "border ; petiole {-^ in. Flowers 4.merous, i in. diam., in 

 ^"^a?7 subglobose clusters, white; pedicels very short; bracts 2, opposite, ovate, 

 ^y^ palyx-loles broadly ovate, acute, ciliate. Petals obovate, connate below in the 

 ^<|»iree m the ?. Stamens of $ inserted on the corolla, longer than the petals, of the ? 

 jj/^Sjnou8. Ovary of ? ovoid, 2- rarely 3-4-celled, stigma quadrate. Drupe \ in. 

 *^-» globose, scarlet, stones usually 2, rarely 3-4, deeply grooved longitudinally. 



".f- I. odorata, Uam. in Don Frodr. 189 ; leaves 5-7 in. elliptic-oblong 

 1^ lanceolate acute minutely serrate-toothed, S A- in short globose panided 



, ^s, female cymes shorter, drupe pedicelled with 4 stones. DC. 



'^'•- ii- 15; Brandis For. Flor. 77.~Ilex? Wall. Cat. 9023. 



^>»imATE Himalaya ; from Simla to NIpal, alt. 3-6000 ft. 

 icfl evergreen tree ; branches much less stout than in the preceding two species. 



»Un?l .'sometimes 9 in. ; nerves rather slender ; petiole ^-l in. Flowers 4-merou8 , 

 diam * ^^- ^^*™-' ^l^it^e ; <? in very shortly peJimcled spreading globose cymes 4-1 in. 

 rt "'•; 9 in shorter cymes and with shorter pedicels; bracts mmutc, at the base of 

 «l)t„f c'^- Galyxlobes rouudea. Petals of c? connate below ; of ? free, oblong, 

 PeL^l r"'»e«« of (J inserted on the corolla, filaments slender, much longer than the 

 i in A- ? l^ypogynous. Ovary globose, 4celled ; stigma sessile quadrate. Drupe 



'"••aiam., pedicelled, globose (ovoid, XAack, Brandis) ; stones 4, smaU, trigonous, with 



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