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with Viburnum obovatum Walter, cannot stand as a valid name in the 

 genus Ilex and for the same reason Ilex peragua Trelease based on Cassine 

 Peragna Linnaeus (Mant. n. 220 [1771 ] which also represents V. obovatum 

 Walt., must be rejected. These two names being excluded from the genus 

 Ilex, Ilex vomitoria Aiton of 1789 remains the valid name for the species 

 if we consider Miller's Cassine paragua a homonym of C. peragua Linnaeus. 



Ilex Macfadyenii, comb. nov. — Prinos montana Swartz, Prodr. 58 

 (1788); Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 622 (1797).— Prinos lanceolatus Macfadyen, 

 Fl. Jam. I. 206 (1837).— Prinos Macfadyenii Walpers, Rep. I. 541 (1842).— 

 Ilex montana Grisebach in Mem. Am. Acad. Sci. Arts, n. ser. vni. 171 

 (PI. Wright, i) (1860); Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 187 (1864), not Torrey & Gray.— 

 Loesener in Nov. Act. Leop-Carol. Akad. lxxviii. 118 (Monog. Aqui- 

 fol.) (1901). 



West Indies. 



Ilex montana Grisebach is preoccupied by /. montana Torrey & Gray 

 (apud Gray, Man. 276 [1848] ) which is the oldest name for /. monticola 

 Gray (Man. ed. 2, 264 [1856] ). Gray changed the earlier name /. montana 

 on account of Prinos montanus Swartz but as at that time the combi- 

 nation under Ilex had not yet been made, the change was not necessary 

 and is not in accordance with our present rules, therefore, /. montana 

 Torr. & Gray remains the correct name for the species which is called 

 generally J. monticola Gray. If, however, /. montana Gray and /. mollis 

 Gray are considered varieties of the same species, Ilex montana becomes 

 J. dubia var. monticola Loesener (in Nov. Act. Leop. -Carol, lxxviii. 

 485 [Monog. Aquifol.] [l90l] ), as Prinos dubius G. Don. (Gen. Syst. n. 

 20 [1832] ) is the oldest valid name for I. mollis Gray. 



Euscaphis japonica var. ternata, var. nov. 



A typo recedit foliis trifoliolatis foliolis ovatis majoribus. 



China. Chekiang: South Yentang, H. H. Hu, No. 129, August 24, 1920. 



As I have seen of this new form only a single fruiting branch with one 

 pair of leaves which presents no other marked differences from typical 

 Euscaphis japonica Dipp. except the 3-foliolate leaves and the larger 

 ovate leaflets which are rounded at base and measure 7-9.7 cm. in length 

 and 3.5-4.8 cm. in width, I hesitate to base a new species on such incom- 

 plete material, though the specimen presents a very distinct appearance. 

 The leaflets are glabrous beneath except a few scattered hairs near the 

 base of the midrib and a minute pilose pubescence on the petiolules of the 

 lateral leaflets. The inflorescence is very large, about 15 cm. long exclud- 

 ing the peduncle which is 8 cm. long. Among the 43 specimens examined 

 of E. japonica from China, Korea and Japan there is not a single specimen 

 with 3-foliolate leaves except that occasionally the lower branches of 

 the inflorescence are supported by one to 3 small leaflets. 



