AQUIFOLIACEAE. — ILEX 81 



florae, sub lente valida brevissime et minute pulvereo-puberulae, 

 pedicellis 3-4 mm. longis, basi biprophyllatis, prophyllis deltoideis 

 acutis, dorso medio plus minusve carinatis et sub lente brevissime 

 pilosulis, circ. 1 mm. longis; flores ex drupa 4-meri; calyx sub drupa 

 4-lobus, 2-2.5 mm. diam., lobis late deltoideis obtusis vel rotundatis, 

 integris, 0.5-0.75 mm. longis, circ. 1.5 mm. latis. Drupa late ellipsoidea, 

 stigmate discoideo, obscuro, 4-lobo coronata, in vivo rubra, i. s. griseo- 

 fusea et obsolete rugosa, circ. 5 mm. longa, 4-4.5 mm. lata, exocarpio 

 tunicato extrinsecus sub lente valida tenuissime subtuberculato- 

 ruguloso, mesocarpio tenui carnoso, 4-pyrena, pyrenis circ. 3.5 mm. 

 longis, 1.75 mm. latis, trigonis, longitudinaliter paucistriolatis et 

 impresso-subsulcatis, tenacibus, lignescentibus. 



Western Szech'uan: Mt. Wa-wu, Hong-yah Hsien, alt. 1200 m., 

 September 1908 (No. 3099). 



This species is perhaps better referred to the section Microdontae, but this 

 must remain undecided, until the $ inflorescence is known. The lustrous leaves 

 with the midribs impressed on their upper surface, the nearly obsolete veins and 

 the plicate-rugulose epidermis of the lower surface indicate, however, that it may 

 belong with the section Rugosae. 



Ilex macrocarpa Oliver, var. a genuina Loesener in Nov. Act. Leop.- 

 Carol. LXXVIII. 491 (1901). 



Western Hupeh: Chang-yang Hsien, alt. 600-1000 m., November 



1907 (No. 151, in part); north and south of Ichang, alt. 600-1000 m., 

 May 3 and October 1907 (No. 151, in part); Patung Hsien, roadsides, 

 etc., alt. 300-900 m.. May 1907 (No. 3089, in part). 



Ilex macrocarpa, var. (3 trichophylla Loesener, I. c. (1901). 



Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, alt. 600-1000 m., 

 May 3 and October 1907 (No. 151, in part); Patung Hsien, roadsides, 

 etc., alt. 300-900 m.. May 1907 (No. 3089, in parte). 



The specimens distributed under Nos. 151 and 3089 represent partly the typical 

 form and partly this variety, which differs in its longer pedicels and in the leaves 

 being pubescent beneath from the typical form with its shorter pedicels and glabrous 

 leaves. 



Ilex Henryi Loesener in Nov. Act. Leop.-Carol LXXVIII. 491 (1901). 

 Western Szech'uan: near Wa-shan, alt. 600-900 m., June 1908 

 (No. 3088). 



Ilex fragilis Hooker f., a genuina Loesener in Nov. Act. Leop.-Carol. 

 XXVIII. 493 (1901). 

 Western Szech'uan: Wa-shan, woods, alt. 2400 m., September 15, 



1908 (No. 892). 



