Other Evergreen Hollies 



religiosa have been given to the plant. I. 

 Cassine was introduced to English gardens in 

 1700, and is sometimes called the " South Sea 

 Tea." 



I cornuta, Lindley and Paxton = " Horned 

 Holly." Although this is one of the most curious 

 and interesting of the hardy species, and at the 

 same time a very ornamental Holly, it is still 

 very uncommon in gardens, though it was 

 introduced upwards of half a century ago. It 

 was first brought to notice by Robert Fortune in 

 1846, who discovered it in April of that year in 

 the neighbourhood of Shanghae when collecting 

 for the Horticultural Society. Greater promi- 

 nence was given to it three years later, when it 

 was put into commerce by Messrs Standish & 

 Noble of Bagshot ; and a year later, 1850, a good 

 figure of it was given in Paxtoris Flower Garden^ 

 Vol. I. p. 43. This was followed shortly after 

 by figures and descriptions in the Gardener s 

 Chronicle for 1850, /. 311, and in Moore and 

 Ay res Magazine, Vol. II. p. 277, / 3. In 1858 

 it was figured in the Botanical Magazine, t. 



5059. 



Collectors of more recent dates than Fortune 

 have found it in various parts of China, Dr A. 

 Henry and Mr E. H. Wilson reporting it as 

 growing in Ichang and the immediate neighbour- 

 hood, and cultivated in low lying districts. 



When mature, it forms a low, bushy-headed 

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