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Collett, Simla PI. Pig. -27. Himalayan Holly. Vera. Kanderu, Kalucho, 



North- West Himalaya. 



A middle-sized tree, nearly glabrous. L. shining, elliptic-lanceolate, gener- 

 ally with large strong spinescent teeth, some quite entire. Fl. bisexual, white, 

 4-merous, \ in. diam., in axillary subglobose clusters, pedicels very short, stout, 

 bracts small. Ovary 2- rarely 3-4-celled. Drupe L in. diam., stones usually 2. 



Himalaya, from the Indus eastward 5,000-9,500 ft. Fl. April-June. 2. I. Pemyi, 

 Franch. (China) var. manipurensis, L»s.. Manipur (Watt), Loesener, Monographia 

 Aquifoliacearum, i. 279. 3. J. insignia, Hook. f. i Lhn. N-p.i. Sikkim 6-8,000 ft. A small 

 t ree, branchlets stout. L. spinous-toothed or obscurely serrate, second, n., intra marginal 

 veins and tertiary nerves prominent beneath, blade 6-9, petiole \-\ in. Drupes bright 

 red, subsessile, stone 1-3-seeded. 



(6.) L. serrate or entire, not spinescent. 



4. I. odorata, Ham. : Brandis, F. Fl. 77. 



A small tree. L. elliptic-oblong, minutely serrate, blade 5-9, petiole \-\ in. 

 Fl. white, J in. diam., unisexual, J in short panicled cymes. $ in globose 

 sessile clusters. Drupes black, \ in. diam. on slender pedicels as long as 

 drupes. 



Outer ranges of North-West Himalaya. Simla to Nepal, ascending to 6.000 ft. Fl. 

 April. 5. I. sikkimensis, King, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 55 1887), p. 205. t. 13. sikkim. 

 6-10,000 ft.. Manipur at 8.000 ft., attains 50 ft., leaf buds envied by numerous large 

 imbricated broadly-ovate, blunt puberulous bracts (the lowest bract leaf-like). L. 

 minutely serrate, blade 5-7, petiole |-1 in. long. Fl. dioecious, in short rounded 

 corymbs at the ends of short woody branehlets. Drupes yellow, }. in. diam. on pedicels 

 longer than drupe. 6. I. Hookeri. King I.e. 266. t. 14, Tongloo, Chumbi valley, 

 Sikkim. 9 10,000 ft. A small deciduous tree. L. lanceolate, serrate, hlade 3-5, petiole 



J-l in. Fl. polygai s, in dense sessile clusters, covered when in bud by imbricate 



ovate orbicular bracts. Fr. J in. diam. on shori pedicels, in small clusters of 2 or 3. Two 



species found by Wat! in Manipur with coriaceous almost entire leaves and l-s led 



fruit are: 7. I. Clarkei, Loesener Monographia Aquifoliacearum i. 274, and 8. 1, mono- 

 pyrena, Watl : I s. ib. 275. 



B. Fl. ft, in panicled cymes, sometimes solitary or fasciculate. 5 solitary 

 or fascicled. 



(a. i I.. quite entire, or nearly SO. 



!». I. malabarica, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 143. 



A small tree, quite glabrOUS. L. lanceolate, blade 3-4, petiole '.-} iii. 

 Fl. ,',, iii. diam., f f in shortly panicled umbels, pedicels slender, ? solitary or 



fascicled. Calyx-lobes usually 6, br 1, filiate, petals t-6, ciliolate, style 



stout, cylindric. Drupe ^ in., crowned by persistent style, pedicel longer than 

 drupe. 



Western Ghats, from the Eonkan southwards, in evergreen forests and on the banks 

 of streams, Nilgiris, Anamalais. PI. Feb. March. 1". I. Walkeri, Wight iV Gard., 

 Palni hills, Ceylon. \\ small much branched tree. b. :, \\ in. Loesener en I Is the Palni 

 plant /. Tliwaiti iii. 



iii. I,, tool bed or .sen-ate. 



II. I. denticulata, Wall.: Wighl 111. t. 149; Bedd. Sylv. t. 142. 



A very large tree. L. rigidly coriaceous, senate, narrowed into a broad 

 marginate petiole, blade 2— 3,_petiole \-\ in. PI. 1-merous, j ' in short, sub- 

 sessile cymes, i Eascioled. Drupe \ in. diam.. stones I, trigonous, w ly, 



ped icels stont, as long as drupe. 



Nilgiris and Anamalais, 6-8,000 ft. Fl. Jan. Feb. Ceylon, upper mountain zone. 

 Closely all ied is 12. I. theaefolia, Wall. (J. gattlt herictfolia, Km/ . Khasi, Mishmi hills. 

 Tenasserim (Kurz). L. caudate-acuminate. Fl. 5-merous. Drupe j in. diam. 



18. I. Grifflthii, lb" i] red bj Loesener to /. triflora, Blume, from Java . Assam, 



Khasi hills, Malay Peninsula. A shrub or small tree, branchlets more or less pub- 

 escent. L. obtusebj serrulate, blade 2 8, petiole 1 in. Drupe 1 in. diam., generally 

 solitary, pedicel longer than drupe. 14. I. embelioides, Hook. t.. Khasi hills. A small 



