Tas. 5059. 
ILEX cornuvuta. 
Horaed-leaved TTolly. 
Nat. Ord. In1cINEZ.—TETRANDRIA MonoGyNIA. 
Gen. Char. Flores hermaphroditi v. rarius polygami. Calyx parvus, urceo- 
“latus, quadridentatus, rarius 5—6-dentatus, persistens. Corolla hypogyna, rotata, 
4-partita, rarius 5—6-partita, laciniis obtusis estivatione imbricatis. Stamina 
ime corolle inserta, ejusdem laciniis numero «qualia et alterna; jilamenta fili- 
formia; anthere introrse, biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium 
sessile, 4-loculare. Ovuda in loculis solitaria v. interdum gemina, collateralia, 
ex apice anguli centralis pendula, anatropa. Stigmata 4, sessilia, distincta v. 
coalita. Drupa baccata, subglobosa, stigmatibus coronata, tetrapyrena, pyrenis 
ossels venosis monospermis. Semina inversa, subtriquetra, testa tenuissime mem- 
branacea. Hméryo in apice albuminis carnosi, sulco longitudinali bipartiti, mimi- 
mus, subglobosus, bilobus; radicuda supera.—Arbuscule v. frutices in America 
tropica et boreali, in Asia calidiore, et in insulis Canariis obvie, una species etiam 
in Europa media et boreali-occidentali indigena ; foliis alternis, coriaceis, crenatis 
. Paneer ; pedunculis azilaribus, uni-multifloris, bracteatis ; floribus aldis. 
Rat. ¥ 
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ILEX cornuta; foliis oblongis coriaceis marginatis basi obtusis apice truncatis, in 
planta vegetiore grosse sinuato-dentatis spinosis in adultis tricornis integris- 
que, umbellis axillaribus sessilibus, baccis tetrapyrenis. Lindl. et Pact. 
Inex cornuta. Lindl. et Paxt. Fl. Gard. v. 1. p. 48. f. 27 (woodcut only). 
Gard. Chron. 1851, p. 311. Walp. Ann. Bot. Syst. v. 2. p. 265. 
This extremely handsome-leaved species of Holly was detected 
by Mr. Fortune, when he was in the service of the Horticultural 
Society, in northern China, somewhere in the vicinity of Shang- 
hai, flowering in April; and, upon another visit, at a place called 
Kin-tang. It was apparently on the latter occasion that this 
fine evergreen was sent living to Messrs. Standish and Co., 
Bagshot Nursery, to whom the merit of its introduction is due. 
It promises to be quite hardy ; but it is only our young plants 
kept under glass, in a cool frame, that have shown any disposi- 
tion to flower, and these flowers are produced in April. 
Descr. Our flowering specimens are quite young and small, a 
foot and a half high; but to what size the species ultimately 
attains in its native country we have no information. In 
JULY Ist, 1858. 
