Ilex 1713 



Leaves broadly ovate or oval, 3 to 5 in. long, 2^ in. wide, flat or slightly 

 concave and shining above ; conspicuously reticulate beneath ; margin with numerous 

 regular spiny teeth directed towards the apex, ^ in. long, and lying in the plane of 

 the blade. 



This is one of the most ornamental hollies, and is a pistillate form, producing 

 abundance of large berries. /. Wilsoni was exhibited in 1899 by the Handsworth 

 Nurseries (where there is now a specimen 13 ft. high) as a new kind of seedling 

 origin ; but is apparently identical with var. princeps, from the same firm, described 

 by Moore ^ a few years earlier. It seems also to be the same as var. latifolia, sold 

 by Lawson in Loudon's time. 



2. Ilex Mundyi, Dallimore, Holly, Yew, and Box, 142 (1908). 

 Q)Ilex AquifoHum, var. nigra, Moore, in Gard. Chron. ii. 433 (1874). 



This differs mainly from /. Wilsoni in the dull and not shining upper surface of 

 the leaf, the marginal spines of which are directed outwards rather than towards the 

 apex. This is a male plant, which was sent out about twenty years ago by the Hands- 

 worth Nurseries, where the tallest specimen is now about 10 ft. 



3. Ilex Lawsoniana, Dallimore, jYc/i^, Yew, and Box, 141 (1908). 



Ilex Aquifolium, var. Lawsoniana, Moore, in Gard. Chron. v. 624, fig. no (1875). 



A variegated form, like /. Mundyi in the shape and texture of the leaf, which 

 is, however, often sub-entire in margin ; the centre of the blade is marked with 

 broad irregular blotches of yellow. It is one of the handsomest of the golden hollies,^ 

 but often reverts to the green state. 



II. Leaves not conspicuously reticulate beneath. 



4. Ilex altaclerensis, Dallimore, Holly, Yew, and Box, 139 (1908). 



Ilex Aquifolium, var. altaclerensis, Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. ii. 507 (1838); Moore, in Gard. 

 Chron. ii. 752 (1874). 



Leaves broadly ovate, 3 to 3^ in. long, and 2 to i\ in. wide, sub-entire, or with 

 short spiny sinuate teeth variable in number and mostly near the apex of the blade • 

 margin slightly undulate ; petiole purplish, often f in. long, with the base of the blade 

 decurrent on it for a short distance. 



This is a very fine male tree with purplish branchlets which originated at 

 Highclere in the early part of the nineteenth century. 



5. Ilex Hodginsii, Dallimore, Holly, Yew, and Box, 140(1908). 



Ilex Aquifolium, var. Hodginsii, Moore, in Gard. Chron. ii. 433 (1874). 



{^)Ilex Aquifolium, var. Shepherdii, Goeppert, in Gartenflora, iii. 318 (1854) (not Moore s). 



Leaves ovate or elliptic, 3 to 4 in. long, 2^ to 3 in. broad, dark green and very 

 shining above ; margin undulate and with rather distant regular large triangular 



1 Moore states that var. princeps was raised from " the seed of /. Aquifolium nigrescens crossed with a male seedling 

 from /. balearica." 



2 Gumbleton, in Gard. Chron. iii. S9S (i888), states that /. Lawsoniana originated in " Hodgen's nursery at Clough- 

 jordan in Tipperary," whence grafts were sent to Messrs. Lawson at Edinburgh. This is an error, and should read " Hodgins's 

 nursery at Dunganstown. '' 



3 Ilex Aquifolium, var. Shepherdii, Moore, in Gard. Chron. ii. 751 (1874), judging from the description and Moore's 

 specimen in the Kew Herbarium, was identical with /. Hendersoni, or only differed from it in the yellowish green leaves being 

 shining and not dull above. 



