134 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Leaves shortly acuminate, entire ... 4. I. glomerata. 



Flowers of both sexes in branched pedunculate 

 cymes. 

 Pyrenes 4 to 6 ; nerves of leaves 10 to 12 



pairs ... ... ... 5. I. Maingaiji. 



Pyrenes 8 



Cymes dense, capituliform ; nerves of 



leaves 7 or 8 pairs ... .,, Q. I. macrophylla. 



Cymes branched, often paniculate, rather 



lax; nerves of leaves 6 to 8 pairs ... 7. I. cymosa. 

 Imperfectly known ... ... ... 8. J. sclerophylla. 



1. Ilex spicata, B1. Bijdr. 1149. A glabrous shrub (sometimes 

 epiphytal, fide Blume) ; young branches rather stout, pale, glabrous. 

 Leaves coriaceous, elliptic, shortly and abruptly caudate-acuminate, the 

 base rounded or slightly cuneate ; the midrib stout, prominent beneath, 

 depressed above ; main nerves 7 to 12 pairs, faint, spreadiiig (not much 

 more prominent than the secondary) straight, interarching within the 

 edge ; length 3'5 to 6 in., breadth 1'5 to 2 in., petiole "2 in. Racemes soli- 

 tary or in paii'S, axillary, *75 to 1'5 in. long, sub-erect or spreading, pube- 

 rulous, the bracts minute, pedicels 1 in. long. Flowers, shorter than the 

 pedicels. Calyx rather flat, with 4 or 5 broad rounded lobes. Petals 

 broadly oblong, united at the base, finally reflexed. Stamens as many as 

 the petals, inserted at their edges near the base ; filaments longer than 

 the corolla, anthers small. Female flowers like the male, but the petals 

 and stamens smaller. Ovary broadly ovoid, compressed, 16-celled; the 

 stigma large, sessile, elongate. Drupe '15 in. long, broadly ovoid, com- 

 pressed, the stigma persistent; pyrenes 10 to 16, compressed. Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 598. Prinos spicata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat., I, Pt. 2, 594. 



Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 390. Perak : King's Col- 

 lector, No. 2463. — DiSTEiB. Java, ( ?) Borneo, Sumatra. 



A species readily distinguished by its compressed fruit which has 

 moreover many pyrenes (from 10 to 16). 



2. Ilex epiphytica, King, n. sp. A small glabrous epiphytic shrub ; 

 young branches rather stout, pale brown, striate. Leaves coriaceous, 

 oval or elliptic, sometimes sub-obovate, very obtuse, the edges entire 

 recurved when dry, the base slightly narrowed ; main nerves 5 or 6 

 pairs, rather straight, spreading, not prominent ; length 2 to 2-75 in., 

 breadth 1 to 1-35 in., petiole *15 in., stout. Female flowers in axillary 

 fascicles of 5 to 7, -15 in. in diam., their pedicels '15 in. long. Calyx with 

 5 to 7 broadly ovate concave obtuse imbricate teeth, puberulous at the 

 edges. Petals 6, oblong, sub-obtuse, longer than the calyx, free, nearly 

 equal, imbricate. Ovary broadly ovoid, tapering to the vei-y short style, 



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