Drawn from an old greenhouse specimen in the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens of Kew, which has gone under the name 

 of Perado, and supposed to come from the Canary Islands, 

 but which is also probably the Ilex Perado of Hortus Kew., 

 ed. 1., stated to be a native of Madeira. Be that as it 

 may, no such plant is known to inhabit Madeira ; and I 

 have the authority of Mr. Webb himself, for saying it is 

 his Ilex platyphylla, so well figured in his invaluable 

 Natural History of the Canaries, Botanical portion, above 

 quoted. According to that author, it grows abundantly at 

 Aqua Garcia, in Teneriffe, and is introduced into the land- 

 scape of Webb and Berthelot, " Vue Phytostatique," tab. 

 4 and tab. 9. The species appears identical with what is 

 commonly cultivated as Ilex Perado; but that seems to be 

 an inhabitant exclusively of Madeira, and is, probably, the 

 same as I. Balearica. The present, Mr. Webb considers 

 peculiar to the Canary Islands. It forms a very beautiful 

 small tree, with copious handsome, evergreen foliage, and 

 with more abundant flowers in cymes than is common 

 in the Hollies. It is in reality quite hardy in this country, 

 and not at all injured by our severest frosts. 



Descr. A pyramidal tree, of twenty feet in height, ac- 

 cording to Mr. Webb, with leaves, as in other species of 

 Ilex, extremely variable, generally broadly ovate, approach- 

 ing to orbicular, thick and coriaceous, quite entire, or 

 more or less serrated, and of the size represented in our 

 figure : but sometimes, as in our native specimens from 

 Mr. Webb and Dr. Finlay, three or four times as large. 

 Cyme many- flowered, much longer than the thickened 

 petioles. Pedicels with two small bracts below the middle, 

 thickened upwards. Calyx-segments ciliated. Lobes of the 

 corolla very concave, obovate. Stamens shorter than the 

 lobes. Ovary globoso-pyramidal. 



Fig. 1. Calyx and Ovary. 2. 3. Flowers. 



