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Ilex lormosana MAXIM. Coriar. Ilic. Monochas. in Mem. A cad. So. 

 Petersb. T serie. XXIX. (1881) p. 46 ; FOKBES et HEMSL. lucl. Fl. Shi. I. 

 p. 11(5; HENRY List PI. Formos. p. 27; MATSTJM. et HAY ATA Enum. PI. For- 

 inos. p. 81 ; HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 54. 



HAB. Koketsuzan, Bankiusiug, Uraislia. 



DISTRIB. Au endemic plant. 



OBSERV. Brandies blackish ; leaves elliptical, acute at the base, acumi- 

 nate or cuspidate at the apex, obtuse at the very tip, 7-8 cm. long, 2-3 cm. 

 broad, margin obscurely creuulate, veins not very distinct on the upper sur- 

 face, reticulated and dotted on the under surface, somewhat pale beneath, 

 petioles about 1 cm. long. Flowers on a very short raceme, almost contracted 

 to a cluster. 



Ilex goshiensis HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 54. 

 Branches strong, cinerascent, brauchlets fusco-rubesceut, angulate. Leaves 

 alternate, petiolate, coriaceous, obovately oblong or oblong, 2(5 mm. long, 16 mm. 

 broad, retusely acute at the apex, quite entire, opaque above, veins not vi- 

 sible, very pallid beneath, venose, petioles 4 mm. long. Drupes clustered at 

 the axils of the leaves, peduncles 5 mm. long, pedicels 3 mm. long, globose, 

 4 mm. in diameter, fusco-rubescent with 4-sepals at the base. 



HAB. Shiutiku : Goshizaii. 



Near Ilex, Cliainpioni LCES. ; but differs from it in having shortly cuspi- 

 date leaves. The leaves of /. Chcunpioni are very rounded or even emar- 

 ginate at the apex. It is also near Ilex inemeydifolia CHAMP, from which it 

 differs in -having leaves which are retused at the apex. There is in the 

 Herbarium at Tokyo a specimen from the Loo-choo islands which has been 

 identified with L Hanccana MAXIM, by Dr. T. ITO in his " Tent. Fl. Lutch. 

 p. 367." The specimen is very like, or even the same as, the plant just 

 described, and I have wondered if the Loo-chooau plant be really identical 

 with /. Ilanccana. As is described by MAXIMOWICZ in his " Coriar. Ilic, 

 Monoch. p. 33," /. Hanceana has " Cymulcie J breve pedunculate, 5-6- 

 flora), petiolum bis vel ter superantes, pedicelli calyce aoquilongi, nores 4-meri 

 circ. linam longi. Calyx puberulus, lobis ciliatis ovatis." But, in the Loo- 



