IleJC- T^TRAKDIUA TtTllAeVNIA, 4^3 



Spikes solitary in the fork of the branches, rather long-peduncled, 

 from four to eight-flowered, when in blossom emerged, afterwards 

 ininieiged. — Corol, stamina, and germ as in the genus, but here there 

 certainly is a style with four large, obliquely tiuncated stigmas. — 

 Seed as in P. nalans, Gaert. sem. ii. 23 tab. 84. 



ILEX. 



Calyx four-toothed. Corolla rotate, four-cleft. Style none. Ber- 

 ry from two-to four-seeded. 



1. 1. dipyrena, fVall. 



Leaves oblong, accuminate, sliort-petioled, smooth, scarcely un- 

 dulated, rem jtely serrate, seiratuies spinous ^Jiozcers sessile in axil- 

 lary fascicles ^ berries two-seeded. 



A very large tree, native of Nepala, where it is called Caulah. 

 Blossoms fiom April to July, and product^s fruit during the rainy 

 season. 1 have also received specimens gathered by Dr. Govau 



about Saharunpore, and by Capt. W, S. Webb, on the confines of 

 Chinese Tarlaiy, where he informs me the tree is called Kundar. 



Branchlets angular, with cinereous bark ; young shoots pube- 

 scent. — Leaves alternate, copious, approximated, oblong, sometimes 

 lanceolate-oblong, attenuated into an acumen, sharp at the base; 

 margins slightly undulated, while young repand-serrate with strong 

 spines, when old more remotely and slightly serrated, sometimes 

 almost entire ; of a firm and leathery texture, perfectly smooth and 

 polished ; rib very prominent, furrowed above ; nei ves short, nearly 

 transversal, divided towards the margin into rediculated veins ; from 

 three to nearly five inches long, one to one and a half broad. — Peti- 

 oles not above two lines long, pubescent, deeply furrowed. —I'low- 

 ers subsessile, collected into rounded axillary subsessile fascicies.— 

 Pedicels very short, each supported by a counle ol mii.ute rounded 

 concave ciliated bractes. — Calyx divided into four broad-ovate, acute, 

 ciliate teeth.— Coro//a deeply four-cleft. Hat and spr a iing ; segments 

 ovate, four times longer than the calyx, obtuse, smooth. —I'ilaments 



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