370 
pedunculo communi breévissimo fere sessilibus, pedicellis basi bi- 
bracteolatis simplicibus, floris 4—5-meris, calycis lobis latis. 
Arbuscula; rami cinerascenti-fusci rugulose substriati pulvinis 
foliorum prominentibus, glabri; petiolus 8—-12 mm. lg. ob laminam 
decurrentem utrinque subtus sulcatus; lamina 47 )0erd 421249 
—5 cm. lt., in siceo glaucescenti-viridis; costa media supra im- 
. pressa subtus prominens, laterales et costulæ subtus prominulæ. 
Bracteolæ minimæ ovatæ.  Pedicelli 4—6 mm. Ig. pilosi apicem 
versus crassiores. Calyx diam. 2—3 mm. Fructus subglobosus c. 
3 mm. diam. — Ad Lagoa Santa in silvis' (W.). 
8. Ilex psaltorioides Reiss. 1. c. 61. — ,,Congonha". — 
Serra da Piedade; in campestribus saxosis frutex paucipedalis 
"+ fronde viridissima; fl. Nov., fr. Jan Febr. et Maio: Lund, W. 
9. Hex dwurética Mart., Reiss, 1: c, 61..— Serra da Ita- 
bira do campo, m. Febr. fi.: Lund. Specimina mea paullum a 
descriptione Reissekii differunt.  Lamina sæpius exacte elongato- 
elliptica medio latissima, petiolo brevissimo in nonnullis ce. 2 mm. 
longo, margine dentato-serrato haud serrulato-crenulato, subtus crebre 
punctulata; pedunculus petiolum multo superans 6—7 mm. lg., 
cymam trifloram v. florem solitarium gerens. — Huc certe etiam 
referenda sunt specimina in campis alpestribus Serra do Caraca 
a Patre Dom. Musci collecta et mihi communicata. 
10. Tlex Curitibenses Miers, in Ann. and Magazine of natural 
history, 3 Ser., vol. VIII, 1861, p. 393 et. Contributions to botany, 
vol. II, 1860—69, p. 103, tab. 63 (,,On the history of the Maté- 
Plant and the different species of Ilex. employed in the Prepara- 
tion of the Yerba de Maté or. Paraguay. Tea")... Ex Miers — 
I. Paraguariensis St. Hil. (pro parte) Mém. Mus. IX, 351; Voy. 
Diam. I, 273; DC. Prodr. II, 15. — Ilex Maté St. Hil. Pl. Re- 
marq. I, 41. — In silvis prope Curitiba, Sorocaba (ex Miers). 
j Var. Gardneriana Miers, ll. cc.  Ilex Paraguayensis Hook. 
(pro parte) Lond. -Journ. Bot. I, 35, tab.1. — ,,An species di- 
stincta?” — In montibus Organensibus (Gardner n. 346)". — Huc 
