Holly, Yew and Box 



Specimens showing both fruit and leaves were 

 collected by Dr Augustine Henry in Patung and 

 also in the province of Hupeh, Central China. 

 It was however left to Mr E. H. Wilson when 

 collecting in Central China for Messrs Veitch to 

 send home seeds from which plants, now in 

 Messrs Veitch's Nursery at Coombe Wood, were 

 raised. 



When mature, I. Pernyi usually forms a bush 

 anything from 6 to 1 2 or 1 5 feet high ; but accord- 

 ing to Dr Henry, when growing under favourable 

 conditions it sometimes attains a height of 30 

 feet. Under cultivation it has so far proved to 

 be a rather slow grower, of bushy habit and 

 dense leafage. The type is recognised by its 

 small, deep green, glossy, coriaceous leaves which 

 are from i to ij inches long with recurved 

 margins and strong divaricate spines, the upper 

 side being deep green, the under surface of quite 

 a pale shade. The spines are from five to seven 

 in number, the lower ones short, the upper ones 

 long, the terminal one being lengthened out into 

 an acuminate point, the whole being arranged 

 in a similar manner to those of I. cornuta, in fact 

 the whole leaf bears a striking resemblance to a 

 diminutive form of that species. The fruits are 

 the size of those of the smallest forms of the 

 " Common Holly," red, sessile on the branches 

 and borne in the leaf axils. If pulled off the 

 branches a leaf is usually detached at the same time. 



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