130 ILICINE^E. 



(6) Leaves lanceolate, not cuspidate 7. parvifdia. 



Leaves elongately oblong, distinctly cuspidate I. formosana. 



(7) leaves smaller and thinner T. Kmanoi. 



Leaves larger and thicker 7. taiwaniana. 



(8) Leaves obovate, obtuse at the apex 7. noJccensis. 



Leaves ovate or lanceolate, acute at the apex. (9) 



(9) Leaves broadly ovate, shortly cuspidate, thinner 7. aspretta. 



Leaves lanceolately ovate, acuminate at the apex /. iaisanensis. 



Ilex asprella CHAMP. ; BENTH. Fl. Hongk. p. 65 ; MAXIM. Coriar. Ilic. 

 Monochas. in Mel. Acad. 8c. Petersb. 7 e ssrie, XXIX. (1881) p. 49 ; FORTIES 

 ot HEMSL. Ind. FL Sin. I. p. 115 ; HENRY List PI. Formos. p. 26 ; MATSUM. 

 ot HAYATA Enum. PL Formos. p. 81. 



Prinos asprellus HOOK, et ARN. Bot. Beech. Toy. p. 170, t. 86. 



HAB. Koshun, Daibohosho, Toseikaku, Holisha, Pachina, Maruyama, 

 So/an, Kokei, Tamsui, Kelung, South Capo. 



PKTRIB. China : Kiangsi, Hongkong. 



Ilex bioritsensis HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 53. 

 Branches strong, straight; bark cinerascent, brauchlets straight, divaricate, 

 triquetrous. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, thick coriaceous, obovately 

 rhomboid, 3| cm. long, 2 cm. broad, margin 1-2-spiiiosely-dentate on 

 both sides, central lobes triangular, acute at the apex or strongly 

 aristate, aristas straight, lateral lobes acute, strongly aristate, rounded 

 at the base or cordate, polished above, pallid below, costas and veins 

 slightly impressed above, slightly elevated beneath, petioles 3 mm. long, 

 nigricant. Drupes axillary, solitary, sessile, obovoid, 8 mm. long, obtuse at the 

 apex (sepals persistent, triangular,) irregularly minutely punctate and slightly 

 2-3 cornute. Stones 2, dorsally compressed, convex on the back, nearly 

 8-sulcate, face flat, nearly 6-sulcate, 5 mm. long, 4 mm. broad. 



HAB. Bioritsu : Taizan, by T. KAWAKAMI and U. MORI, Oct. 1908, (No. 

 7185). 



Very like Ikx Pernyi FEANCH. var. Manipurensis LCES.; but differs from 

 it in the shape /of the drupes in which there are alwavs two stones. 



