1886.] G. King — On two new Species of Ilex. 2G5 



at the lower end. The hind tibieo are clothed with very long dark 

 brown aj^pressed scales (not hairs) . At their end a pair of spines, and 

 also two singular follicular appendages resembling the husk of oats, 

 acicular, scaly, hollow, dark-brown, membranous, loosely attached, and 

 about two millimetres in length. On the middle of the tibia is a single 

 somewhat longer spine with an accompanying follicle. 



XIV. — On hvo neiv species of Ilex from the Eastern Himalaya. — By 

 George Kixg, M. B., LL. D., F. L. S., Stiperintemletit of the Boyal 

 Botanic Garden, Calcutta. 



[Received May 8th ;— Read June 2nd, 1886.] 



(With Plates XIII. & XIV.) 



Both the species described below fall into the section of the genus 

 Ilex which is characterised by having the flowers in very dense short 

 axillary branched cymes, and with the fruit never more than 4- celled. 



Ilex Sikkimensis, King. A glabrous evergreen dioecious tree 30 to 

 60 feet high, the young branches rather stout, their terminal buds 

 covered by niimerous large imbricated broadly-ovate blunt puberulous 

 bracts, their bark pale yellowish ; leaves thinly coriaceous, 5 to 7 inches 

 long, narrowly elliptic- oblong or oblanceolate, the apex acute, the edges 

 finely serrate, the midrib very prominent, primary lateral nerves 10 to 

 12 pairs, distinct but not prominent ; flowers in shortly pedunculate 

 glomeruli from the axils of the older leaves, bracts broadly acute, each 

 bract with a 3-flowered, 2 to 3-bracfceolate, cytne in its axil; flowers of 

 both sexes pedicillate 4-merous, the sepals ovate blunt, the petals broadly 

 ovate connected by their bases ; stamens in the male flowers about 

 as long as the petals, the anthers broadly ovate, in the female flower 

 absent ; ovary, absent in the male flowers, in the female 4-celled with 

 1 ovule from the inner upper corner of each cell ; ripe fruit globose, 2 in. 

 in diam., yellow, succulent, crowned by the remains of the quadrate 

 stigma ; pyrenes 4, trigonous, grooved, each 1-celled and 1-seeded. 



Sikkim, at elevations of from 6,000 to 10,000 feet, collected by 

 Kurz, Gamble, Lister, King. 



This species falls into the section with I. insignis, dipyrena, and 

 odor at a. It is the plant referred to by Sir J. D. Hooker in the Flora 

 of British India, Vol. I, p. 599, as a possible new species near odorata, 

 of which, when working up the genus Ilex for that work, he had seen 

 only a single imperfect specimen collected in Sikkim by Mr. Brandis. 



