54 7 ART. I.—B. HAYATA?’ . 
Ilex formosana Maxim.; Marsvum. et Hayara lc. p. 81. 
Has. Uraisha, leg. N. Kontsni, Aprili. 1908, (No. 78). 
Osseryv. Branches blackish ; leaves elliptical acute at the base, 
acuminate or cuspidate at the apex, obtuse at the very tip, 
7-8 em. long, 2-3 em. broad, margin obscurely crenulate, veins not 
very distinct on the upper surface, reticulated and dotted on the 
under surface, somewhat pale beneath, petioles about 1 cm. long. 
Flowers on a very short raceme which is almost contraeted to a 
cluster. , 
Ilex goshiensis. Hayara sp. nov. Rami validi, cinerascentes, 
ramulis fusco-rubescentibus angulatis. _ Folia alterna petiolata, 
coriacea, obovato-oblonga, vel oblonga, 26mm. longa, 16 mm. lata, 
apice retuso-acuta basi acuta, integerrima, supra opacissima, venis 
non visis, subtus pallidissima tenuiter venosa, petiolis 4 mm. longis. 
Drupz ad axillas foliorum fasciculatze, pedunculis 5 mm. longis, 
pedicellis 3 mm. longis, globose, 4 mm. in diametro, fusco-rubescen- 
tes, basi sepalis 4 persistentibus instructe. 
Has. Shintiku : Goshizan, leg. T. Kawakami, (No. 1258.) 
‘Near Ilex Championi Las.; but differs from it in having shortly 
cuspidate leaves. The leaves of the other plant are very rounded 
or even emarginate at the apex. This is also near Ilex memecylifolia 
Cuamp., 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 
Hanceana Maxm., by Dr. T. Ito in the: Tent. FI. Lutch p. 367. 
The specimen is very like, or even the same as, the plant 
just described, and I have wondered if the Loo-chooan plant 
be really identical with I. Hanceana. 1 have seen the 
latter species at Kew and have noticed that it is differ- 
