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6- or 7-celled ; stigma discoid, dotted in the middle. Drupe ovoid, 

 •2 to '25 in. long, crowned by the persistent style and stigma ; pyrenes 6 

 or 7, trigonous. Male flowers not known, 



Perak ; at elevations of about 5,000 feet, Wray, No. 381 J ; King's 

 Collector, No 7413. 



3. Ilex GtRiffithii, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 601. A bush or 

 small tree ; young branches stout, pubescent or glabrescent. Leaves 

 coriaceous, elliptic, rarely elliptic-rotund, acute, the edges serrulate, the 

 base slightly narrowed ; upper surface glabrous, except the depressed 

 puberulous midrib ; lower surface puberulous or glabrescent, the midj'ib 

 prominent and pubescent •, main nerves about 8 pairs, spreading, inter- 

 arching far from the edge; length 1 to 2*5 in., breadth '5 to 1'3 in., 

 petiole '15 to "25 in. jP/oiyers 4-nierous ; the males fascicled, less than 

 •2 in. in diam., on pedicels longer than themselves. Female floivers 

 lai'ger than the males, in smaller fascicles, and sometimes solitary. Calyx 

 a shallow cup, with 4 broad shallow ciliolate lobes. Petals broadly 

 oblong, obtuse, finally re-curved, connate near the base. Ovary globose ; 

 stigma sessile, 4-lobed, Drupe globose or ovoid-globose, glabrous or 

 glabrescent, '15 in, in diam., the pulp scanty; pyrenes 4, coriaceoas, 

 rounded at the back ; pedicel '35 to '6 in, long. 



Malacca : Griffith, Maingay. Perak : Wray, King's Collector. — 

 DisTRlB. : Sumatra, Java, Khasia Hills and Cachar, Assam. 



4. Ilex glomeeata, King, n. sp. A glabrous shrub or small tree ; 

 young branches, slender, dark-coloured. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong 

 or elliptic-oblong, acuminate, the edges entire sliglitly wavy and recurved 

 when dry, the base cuneate ; main nerves 6 or 7 pairs, curving, ascend- 

 ing, forking, obsolete on the upper, faint on the lower surface ; length 

 3 to 4-5 in., breadth 1-3 to 1-75 in., petiole -3 to -4 in. Male flowers 

 '2 in. in diam., in axillary fascicles of 6 to 12, their pedicels '15 in. long. 

 Calyx minute, with 4 shallow rounded teeth. Petals 4, very much 

 longer than the calyx, broadly ovate, membranous, slightly coherent 

 by their bases, hypogynous. Stamens alternate with and longer than 

 the petals, slightly adherent to them at the base ; filaments subulate, 

 much longer than the broad shortly ovoid suturally dehiscent antheis ; 

 Rudimentary ovary ovoid, compressed, stigma sessile. Female flowers 

 not known. Drupes globular, '3 or "35 in, in diam,, the pulp copious ; 

 pyrenes 4, trigonous. 



Perak: King's Collector, Curtis, No. 2091, Scortechini. 



5. Ilex Maingayi, Hook, fil, FI. Br. Ind. I, 605. A glabrous tree 

 20 to 30 feet high (60 to 80 fldo Kunstler); young branches stout, len- 

 ticellate, dark-coloured. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic, narrowly elliptic- 

 oblong or oblanceolate-oblong, sub-acuminate, the base narrowed ; upper 



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