He,v.] XL. ILICINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 599 



Drupe | in. long, broadly ovoid, much compressed, with a sessile transversely elongated 

 stigma on its broad truncate end, and 10-16 minute compressed coriaceous stones. A 

 very curious plant, which I assume to be Blume's /. spicata. Maingay's specimens are 

 in $ flowers only, and I have described the drupe from Bornean ones collected by 

 Beccari. 



SECT. II. Flowers in very dense short axillary branched cymes, pedicels 

 very short, $ and ? 4-merous. Drupes subsessile in the axils, 1-4-celled 



SECT. 



very shoru, 3 auu % <-m 

 (pedicelled in /. odorata}. 



2. X. insignis, Hook.f.; branches very stout, leaves 6-9 in. elliptic- 

 lanceolate obscurely serrate very coriaceous young spiuous-toothed, drupe 

 subsessile large with a rugose 1-3-seeded stone. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; at Darjeeling, alt. 7000 ft. 



A small evergreen erect tree ; branchlets as thick as the little finger, grooved. 

 Leaves very thick, acute, narrowed into the stout petiole, which is f-1 in. ; nerves be- 

 neath very stout and much reticulated ; young oblong-lanceolate, base rounded, margins 

 spinous, petiole shorter. Flowers 4-merous, ^ in. diam., in subglobose clusters in. 

 diarn., green ; pedicels very short, stout ; bracts opposite, small, ovate, acute. Calyx- 

 lobes broadly ovate, acute or obtuse. Petals orbicular-obovate, connate below in the 

 <J. /Stamens equalling the petals, inserted on the corolla in the $ , filaments very 

 thick. Rudimentary-ovary globose, with 4 minute papillae as stigmas. Ovary of ? 

 4-celled ; stigma sessile, discoid, 4-lobed. Drupe f in. diam., globose, with a globose 

 1-3-celled 1-3-seeded grooved woody stone formed of 4 connate stones. Closely allied 

 to /. dipyrena, but a very much larger plant in all its parts, with shorter stamens and 

 a very different structure of the drupe. Still more closely allied tp. the Japanese /. 

 latifolia, Thunb., which has 4 separate stones in the drupe. 



3. I. dipyrena, Wall, in Roxb. Fl Ind. ed. Carey, i. 473 ; PL As. 

 Ear. iii. 68, t. 292 ; Cat. 4327 ; branches stout, leaves 3-4 in. elliptic- 

 lanceolate spinous-serrate very coriaceous, the old quite entire, drupe 

 subsessile with 2 rarely more plano-convex deeply-grooved stones. 

 Don Prodr. 188 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 15 ; Brandis For. Flor. 76. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Simla, alt. 5-8000 ft., to Sikkim, alt, 7-9000 ft., 

 Wallich, &c. 



An evergreen tree 30-40 ft. ; trunk sometimes 17 feet girth ; shoots pilose. Leaves 

 shining, the young very spinous, the older with scattered marginal spines, the oldest 

 with a thickened quite entire border; petiole \-^ in. Flowers 4-merous, | in. diam., in 

 axillary subglobose clusters, white ; pedicels very short ; bracts 2, opposite, ovate, 

 acute. Calyx-lobes broadly ovate, acute, ciliate. Petals obovate, connate below in the 

 $ , free in the ?. Stamens of $ inserted on the corolla, longer than the petals, of the ? 

 hypogynous. Ovary of 9 ovoid, 2- rarely 3-4-celled, stigma quadrate. Drupe % in. 

 diam., globose, scarlet, stones usually 2, rarely 3-4, deeply grooved longitudinally. 



4. I. odorata, Ham. in Don Prodr. 189 ; leaves 5-7 in. elliptic-oblong 

 or lanceolate acute minutely serrate-toothed, <$ fl. in short globose panicled 

 cymes, female cymes shorter, drupe pedicelled with 4 stones. DC. 

 Prodr. ii. 15 ; Brandis For. Flor. 77. Ilex 1 Wall. Cat. 9023. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Simla to Nipal, alt. 3-6000 ft. 



A small evergreen tree ; branches much less stout than in the preceding two species. 

 Leaves sometimes 9 in.; nerves rather slender; petiole ^-f, in. Flowers 4-merous, 

 about fe in. diam., white ; $ in very shortly peduncled spreading globose cymes 4-1 in. 

 diam. ; ? in shorter cymes and with shorter pedicels ; bracts minute, at the base of 

 the pedicels. Calyx-lobes rounded. Petals of $ connate below ; of ? free, oblong, 

 obtuse. Stamens of $ inserted on the corolla, filaments slender, much longer than the 



rtals ; of $ hypogynous. Ovary globose, 4-celled ; stigma sessile quadrate. Dra^ 

 in. diam., pedicelied, globose (ovoid, black, Brandis}} ; stones 4, small, trigonous, with 



