to the other of the two divisions into which Reiss has 
divided the sixty-three Brazilian species, namely the 
punctate and impunctate leaved, the former of which 
includes I. conocarpa. | 
Of the true Maté, a good figure is given at tab. 3992 
of this work, and a very full description of the plant 
and its uses, in the London Journal of Botany, vol. 1. p. 
35. It differs from J. conocarpa, in the broader leaves, and 
especially in the smaller panicled greenish flowers, and in 
the globose fruit ; and it has a more southern range, from 
Rio to Paraguay, where it abounds wild, and has been 
cultivated by the Jesuits. 
I. conocarpa belongs (as stated above) to the punctate- 
leaved section of the genus, of which Reiss describes no 
less than twenty-nine species (including I. paraguensis) 
which are so nearly allied that he has not been able to 
subdivide them sectionally. Its distinctive character 1s 
the conical fruit, of which I have seen no example, and 
. Without which its identification cannot be considered abso- 
lutely determined; but the plant here figured being in all 
respects identical with that collected by Gardner in bushy 
hills about Ouro Preto in Piauhy (N. 5004) and which is re- 
garded by Reiss as typical of his J. conocarpa, I see no 
reason for doubting its being correctly named. : 
The plant here figured was sent from the Botanical 
Gardens of Rio to those of Kew by Monsieur A. Glaziou, 
in 1889, and flowered in a stove in March of the present 
year. Only male flowers were produced.—J. D. H. 
- Fig. 1, Cluster of flowers 
laid All enlarged. ; 2, section of calyx and imperfect ovary ; 3, corolla 
open :— All enlarged, : 
