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Var. B. usitata, nob. ; — foliis c medio ad basin cuneatis, breviter 

 et remote dentatis, dentibus glandula mncronulatis, margine 

 paulo reflexis ; corymbo petiolo 2-plo longiore, e basi ramoso, 

 ramis 3-4-floris, pedicellis longiusculis, tenuissimis, umbel- 

 lato-fasciculatis, imo bracteolatis ; floribus 4-rceris, glaberri- 

 mis, parvulis ; drupa piperiformi. — Prov. San Paolo (Gaudi- 

 chaud, no. 57). — An species distincta ? 



The leaves are 3-3i inches long, If inch broad, on a petiole 

 of 5 lines ; they are more finely toothed than the preceding : 

 the primary branch of the axillary corymb is 2 lines long, the 

 five or six fasciculated branchlets 3 lines, and the three pedicels 

 at the extremity of each 2 lines long ; the expanded flower is 

 2 lin. diam. Both the ovary and ripe fruit are crowned with a 

 flat sessile stigma, as in the Paraguayan species ; the drupe is 

 globular, and nearly 3 lines in diameter*. 



2. Ilex Curitibensis, nob.; — Ilex Paraguariensis, St. -Hit. (in 

 parte) Mem. Mus. ix. 351; Voy. Diam. i. 273; DC. Prodr. 

 ii. 15 ; — Ilex Mate, St.-Hil. PI. Remarq. i. 41 ; — glaberrima, 

 ramulis teretibus, angulato-striatis, fuscis, lenticellis notatis, 

 junioribus subcompressis, acute 4-6-gonis ; foliis elliptico- 

 oblongis, imo cuneatis, apice breviter et repente acuminatis, 

 acumine obtuso aut emarginato, grosse dentatis, dentibus 

 paucis obtusis valde gibbis et apice glandula mucronatis, 

 subcoriaceis, rigidulis, supra fuscescentibus, nitidis, costa 

 nervisque omnino immersis, subtus pallidioribus, subferru- 

 gineis, opacis, epunctatis ; petiolo longiusculo, canaliculato ; 

 floribus $ paucis, in axillis fasciculatis, 4-meris; drupa ovata, 

 stigmate pulvinato 4-lobo coronata, nucibus 4. — Prov. San 

 Paolo, v . s. ex sylvis prope Curitiba ; etiam in lib. Delesscrt, 

 Sorocaba (Sellow). 



This must be the plant collected by St.-Hilairc at Curitiba, 

 and considered by him to be identical with the Paraguay species, 

 which he does not appear to have seen ; the two plants, however, 

 are manifestly different. Here the branchlets are very angularly 

 sulcated, shining, and, as well as the leaves, grow nearly black 

 in drying ; the leaves are more distinctly cuncate, the dentations 

 are fewer in number, and consequently larger, deeper, very 

 obliquely rounded, each tooth having near its sinus a short acute 

 mucronate gland ; the opacity on the lower side is caused by 

 the presence of very minute and crowded granulations, which 

 arc very manifest under a lens : they have no immersed black 

 glands, as in Reisseck's second section of the genus ; the midrib 

 is somewhat prominent below, polished, and very dark. The 



* This variety is shown in Plate 62 b of the * Contributions.' 



