I. Aquifolium Varieties 



obovate, bluntish, rounded at the apex, i \ inch 

 to 2 inches long, and f inch to i inch broad, 

 leathery, the margins entire, thickened, wavy, the 

 apex usually blunt, but occasionally with a short 

 spine, or with a cup-like thickening, and the margin 

 moreover bears an occasional but very rare erratic 

 spine. 



I. A. Smithiana. A distinct variety, with 

 narrow leaves, forming the green counterpart of 

 donningtonensis. The bark is green or some- 

 times tinged with reddish purple ; the leaves are 

 lanceolate, from 2 to 2j inches long, by f to an 

 inch in width, of a bright glossy green colour, 

 with distant, irregular, weakish spines, which are 

 moderately divaricate. The leaves are com- 

 paratively thin in texture. 



I. A. whittingtonensis. A small - leaved 

 and very elegant Holly, with purple bark, and 

 lanceolate or elliptic-ovate, thinnish leaves, averag- 

 ing 2 \ inches long and -f inch in width, but some- 

 times as much as 3 inches long, and about an 

 inch wide ; these are furnished with numerous 

 stiff, divaricate spines, the spines being often un- 

 equally disposed. The leaves are of a dark 

 shining green, and are sometimes rather recurved. 

 It is one of the Handsworth varieties, and quite 

 distinct in character, though apparently occasion- 

 ally mixed up with donningtonensis, which is 

 altogether a much darker-hued plant. 



