2G6 G. King — On two new Species of Ilex. [No. 3, 



Altliougli resembling I. insignis, Hook. fil. & Th., in many respects, 

 this species is readily distingmshed from tliat species by its longer- 

 stalked smaller fruit, and from insignis, as well as from every other 

 Indian Ilex, by the great broad bracts which cover the terminal bnds of 

 its young branches. This has moreover yellow fruit, while the fruit of 

 insignis and dipyrena is red, and that of odorata is nearly black. Like 

 odorata the fruit of this has 4 pyrenes. 



Plate XIII. 1, Apex of branch of Ilex Sikkimensis, King ; 2, cluster 

 of ripe fruits ; 3, bract of inflorescence, of natural size ; 4, apex of ripe 

 fruit ; 5, base of the same, slightly enlarged ; 6, male flower ; 7, the same 

 with the stamens removed ; 8, the same dissected to shew the calyx ; 

 9, stamens ; enlarged. 



Ilex Hookeri, King. A small deciduous glabrous tree, the young 

 branches rather thin, their bark pale yellow ; leaves coriaceous, from 3 

 to 5 inches long, narrowly oblong or lanceolate, the apex acuminate, 

 the edges serrate and slightly recurved when dry, midrib prominent, 

 lateral primary veins 6 to 10 pairs, prominent, as also are the nerves ; 

 flowers in dense small sub- sessile axillary glomeruli which are covered 

 when young by ovate- orbicular bracts ; flowers pedicillate, the pedicels 

 winged, 0'2 inch long, and with 2 or 3 lanceolate bracteoles near their 

 bases ; flowers unisexual or hermaphrodite, 4-merous, the sepals short, 

 triangular, united by their bases, as also are the broadly-ovate petals ; 

 stamens short incurved, anthers broadly ovate ; ovary surrounded at its 

 base by a thin inconspicuous disc, fleshy, 4-celled, the stigma large thick 

 discoid; ripe fruit globular, 0*2 inch across, crowned by the discoid 

 stigma : pyrenes 4, obtusely trigonous. 



On Tongloo in the Sikkim Himalaya, at elevations of from 9,000 to 

 10,000 feet ; also in the Chumbi valley: Gamble, King, and Calcutta Bo- 

 tanical Garden native collectors. 



This species also falls into the section with insignis, dipyrena, and 

 odorata. It had not been collected when Sir J. D. Hooker worked up 

 the genus for the Flora of British India. It is distinguished from all 

 these by its smaller narrower leaves, but especially by the small glomeruli 

 from each of which only 2 or 3 fruits are produced. 



Plate XIV. 1, Branch of Ilex Hookeri, King ; 2, ripe fruits; of na- 

 tural size ; 3, hermaphrodite flower seen from below ; 4, 4, the same 

 seen from above ; 5, single petal and stamen ; 6, stamens ; enlarged. 



