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Ilex tolucana liebmannii Loesener, Nov. Act. Acad. Caes. Leop. Carol. 78: 

 302. 1901. 



Ilex tolucana calif omica Loesener, Nov. Act. Acad. Caes. Leop. Carol. 78: 

 302. 1901. 



Veracruz, Mexico, Hidalgo, and Oaxaca ; Baja California ; type from Toluca, 

 Hidalgo. 



Glabrous shrub ; leaves lanceolate or oblanceolate to oval, acute at base, 

 obtuse at apex, serrulate or crenulate, lustrous ; inflorescence glabrous ; fruit 

 globose, 4 to 6 mm. in diameter, with 4 nutlets, these 3-striate on the back. 

 " Limoncillo " (Hidalgo). 



The varieties described by Loesener differ only in leaf form. The writer has 

 not seen sufficient material of the species to be able to judge of their systematic 

 value. 



This species is closely related to /. paraguariensis St. Hil., the Paraguay 

 tea or mate of Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil, whose leaves are widely 

 used in South America for the preparation of a beverage, which largely re- 

 places tea and coffee in those regions. 



Ilex iiitkla (Vahl) Maxim, is reported from Veracruz by Loesener, but the 

 writer has seen no specimens. It is closely related to /. tolucana, and the 

 specimens reported may belong rather to the latter species. 



4. Ilex socorroensis T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 4: 90. 1910. 

 Known only from Socorro Island, the type locality. 



Leaves obovate, 2 to 3 cm. wide, rounded at apex, crenate-dentate, lustrous 

 above ; nutlets 4 or 5. 



No material has been seen by the writer. 



5. Ilex brandegeana Loesener, Nov. Act. Acad. Caes. Leop. Carol. 78: 148. 1901. 

 Ilex triflora T. S. Brandeg. Gard. & For. 7: 347. 1S94. Not 7. triflora Blume, 



1826. 



Baja California, Sinaloa, and Durango ; type locality, La Chuparosa, Baja 

 California. 



Tree, 4.5 meters high, with hirsutulous branchlets ; leaves elliptic or ovate- 

 lanceolate, 3 to 8.5 cm. long, acute, appresssed-serrulate, hirsutulous on the 

 upper surface or glabrate ; flov/ers 5 or 6-parted, sweet-scented ; fruit 7 to 9 

 mm. in diameter. " Junco serrano " (Sinaloa). 



6. Ilex pringlei Standi, sp. nov. 



Hidalgo ; type from Trinidad (Pringle 10003; U. S. Nat. Herb. No. 462069). 



Branchlets puberulent or glabrate ; leaves ovate or elliptic, 4 to 6.5 cm. long, 

 rounded to acute at base, acuminate or abruptly acute at apex, lustrous, with a 

 few appressed spinulose teeth or subentire ; pistillate pedicels 5 to 9 mm. 

 long ; flowers 6 or 7-parted ; fruit globose, 6 mm. in diameter ; nutlets 6, strongly 

 compressed, smooth. 



Some of the inflorescences are fasciculate, but the upper ones are solitary. 

 Pringle's 10004 from Trinidad is apparently of the same species. In it the 

 pistillate pedicels are all solitary. 



7. Ilex mexicana (Turcz.) Black; Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 1: 187. 1880. 

 rUeostegia mexicana Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou 32*: 277. 1859. 



Ilex cassine mexicana Loesener, Nov. Act. Acad. Caes. Leop. Carol. 78: 147. 

 1901. 



Veracruz. 



Small tree, nearly glabrous throughout ; leaves lance-elliptic or oblong- 

 elliptic, 6.5 to 9 cm. long, short-petiolate, acute or obtuse at base, abruptly 

 short-acuminate at apex, conspicuously spinulose-serrate ; fruit red, globose, 

 5 to 6 mm. in diameter, with 4 nutlets. 



