Hex.] XL. iLiciNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 599 



Drupe I in. long, broadly ovoid, mucli compressed, with a sessile transversely elongated 

 stigma on its broad truncate end, and 10-16 minute compressed coriaceous stones. — A. 

 very curious plant, which I assume to be Blume's /. spicata. Maingay's specimens are 

 in 6 flowers only, and I have described the drupe from Bomean ones collected by 

 Beccari. 



Sect. II. Mowers in very dense short axillary branched cymes, pedicels 

 very short, jj and ? 4-merous. Drupes subsessile in thp axUs, 1-4-ceIled 

 (pedicelled in /. odorata). 



2. I. insignls, Hook.f. ; branches very stout, leaves 6-9 in. elliptic- 

 lanceolate obscurely serrate very coriaceous young spiuous-toothed, drupe 

 subsessile large with a rugose 1-3-seeded stone. 



SiKKiM Himalaya ; at Darjeeling, alt. 7000 ft. 



A small evergreen erect tree; branchlets as thick as the little finger, grooved. 

 Leaves very thick, acute, narrowed into the stout petiole, which is f-1 in. ; nerves be- 

 neath very stout and much reticulated; young oblong-lanceolate, base rounded, margins 

 spinous, petiole shorter. Flowers 4Tmerou8, J in. diam., in subglobose clusters \ in. 

 diam., green ; pedicels very short, stout ; bracts opposite, small, ovate, acute. Caly^ 

 lohes broadly ovate, acute or obtuse. Petals crbicular-obovate, connate below in the 

 (J. Stamens equalling the petals, inserted on the corolla in the $ , filaments very 

 thick. Bvdimentary-ovary globose, with 4 minute papillae as stigmas. Ova/ry of $ 

 4-celled ; stigma sessile, discoid, 4-lobed. J^ritpe^ in. diam., globose, with a globose 

 1-3-celled 1-3-seeded grooved woody stone formed of 4 connate stones. — Closely allied 

 to I. dipyrena, but a very much larger plant in all its parts, with shorter stamens and 

 & very different structure of the drupe. Still more closely allied to the Japanese I, 

 htifolia, Thunb., which has 4 separate stones in the drupe. 



3. Z. dipyrena, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey , i. 473 ; PI. As. 

 Bar. iii. 68, t. 292 ; Cat. 4327 ; branches stout, leaves 3-4 in. elliptic- 

 lanceolate spinous-serrate very coriaceous, the old quite entire, drupe 

 subsessile with 2 rarely more plano-convex deeply-grooved stones. 

 Don, Prodr. 188 ; DC. Prpdr. ii. 15 ; Brandis For. Flor. 76. 



Tempekate Himalaya; from Simla, alt. 5-8000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 7-9000 ft., 

 WaUich, &c. 



An evergTcen tree 30-40 ft. ; trun^.c sometimes 17 feet girth ; shoots pilose. Leaves 

 shining, the young very spinous, the older with scattered mtoginal spines, the oldest 

 with a thickened quite entire border ; petiole J-^ in. Flowers 4-merous, i in. diam., in 

 axillary subglobose clusters, white ; pedicels very short ; bracts 2, opposite, ovate, 

 acute. Calyx-loles broadly ovate, acute, ciliate. Petals obovate, connate below in the 

 S, free in'the 9. Stamens of S inserted on the corolla, longer than the petals, of the 9 

 hvpogynous. Ovary of 9 ovoid, 2- rarely 3-4-oelled, stigma quadrate. Drupe J in. 

 diam., globose, scarlet, stones usually 2, rarely 3-4, deeply grooved longitudinally. 



4. Z. odorata, Ham. in Don Prodr. 189 ; leaves 5-7 in. elliptic-oblong 

 or lanceolate acute minutely serrate-toothed, $ fl. in short globose panicled 

 cymes, female cymes shorter, drupe pedicelled with 4 stones. DL. 

 Prodr. ii. 15 ; Brandis For. Flor. 77.— Ilex 1 Wall. Gat. 9023. 



Tempeeate Himalaya ; from Simla to Nipal, alt. 3-6000 ft. 



A small evergreen tree ; branches much less stout than in the preceding two species. 

 Leaves sometimes 9 in.; nerves rather slender; petiole J-| in. Flowers 4-merous, 

 about J in. diam., white ; g in very shortly peduncled spreading globose cymes i-1 m 

 diam. ; 9 in shorter cymes and with shorter pedicels ; bracts minute, at the base of 

 the pedicels. Calyx-lobes rounded. Petah of S connate below ; of ? -free, oblong, 

 obtuse. Stamens of <J inserted on the corolla, filaments slender, much longer than the 

 petals ; of 2 hypogynous. Ovary globose, 4celled ; stigma sessile quadrate. Drupe 

 i in. diam., pedicelled, globose (ovoid, Uack, Brandis); stones 4, small, trigonous, with 



