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the drupe is 3 lin. diam., with a prominent mammiform and 

 obsoletely 4-lobed stigma. In another specimen the leaves are 

 more pohshed, extremely smooth above, the margin showing a 

 disposition to become toothed ; they are pale brown above and 

 fuscous brown beneath, the petiole being thinner and 3-carinated 

 below *. 



4. Ilex amara, Bonpl. MSS. ; — ramulis rubellis, glaberrimis, 

 striato-angulatis ; foliis lanceolatis, imo longe cuneatis, versus 

 apicem cuneatis, et hinc obtusiusculis et emarginatis, ultra 

 medium integerrimis, hinc inde serratis, dentibus extus ro- 

 tundatis, apice glanduliferis, margine vix revoluto, glaber- 

 rimis, crassiusculis, supeme nitidis, pallide viridibus, nervis 

 costaque mediana rubella immersis, subtus flavo-opacis, epunc- 

 tatis, nervis tenuissimis, auastomosantibus, inconspicuis ; pe- 

 tiole flavo, angusto, canaliculato. — In sylvis cii-ca Missiones, 

 ad ripas fluvii Paranensis, et ad montem Santa Cruz in prov. 

 Rio Grande. 



This is a still more distinct species, with lanceolate leaves, 

 which are cuneate and entire for two-thirds of their length, their 

 summit being shortly attenuated and emarginated ; above, they 

 ai*e opake and very smooth, almost nerveless, with a reddish flat 

 midrib ; they are pale green, somewhat paler and yellowish be- 

 low, where their delicate nervures are scarcely prominent, and 

 their midrib, of an orange-red colour, is not much raised. They 

 are 2^2^ inches long, | inch broad, on a petiole 4 lines long. 

 The specimen has neither flower nor fruit. In form the leaves 

 somewhat resemble those of /. nigropunctata, but they want the 

 peculiar dotted glands so conspicuous in that species f. 



5. Ilex Humholdtiana, Bonpl. MSS. (stirps <S) ; — Ilex crepitans, 

 Bonpl. MSS. [stirps 2 ) ; — Ilex Paraguariensis, Reiss. (non 

 St.-Hil.), var. angustifolia, Flor. Bras, xxviii. p. 63. tab. 13. 

 fig. 1 7 ; — glabenima, ramulis rugulosis, subangulatis ; foliis 

 confertis, lanceolatis, utrinque gradatim attenuatis, summo 

 anguste obtusis, crassiusculis, obsolete dentatis, dentibus 

 glanduliferis, supeme nitidis, ohvaceo-viridibus vel atroviren- 

 tibus, laevissimis, fere enerviis, ad costam profunde sulcatis, 

 subtus flavescentibus aut pallide ferrugineis, nervulis sub- 

 patentibus paulo prominuhs inter se arcuatim nexis, hinc 

 remote nigro-punctulatis ; petiolo tenui, canaliculato ; pani- 

 culis axillaribus, e basi ramis 3-6, fasciculatis, ramis 3-floris, 

 floribus 4-meris, glaberrimis; drupis parvis, globosis, stig- 

 mate mammseformi sub-4-lobo coronatis, nucibus 3-4. — In 



* This species is represented in Plate 64 a of the ' Contributions.' 

 t A drawing of this species will be seen in Plate 64 b. 



