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long time unable to do. The leaves ol liallota have always a tendency 

 to assume a round rather than an elliptic form, toothed and entire 

 leaves are mingled on the same branch , and the down with which 

 they are cloathed is much thicker and of a different quality, the 

 branches are stiffer, and the fruit besides being sweet is very long 

 and cylindrical. It is of a much less hardy nature than the Ilex 

 which becomes a large forest tree when cultivated in England, whilst 

 a Ballota which I preserved for near 20 years -in a warm exposure 

 had scarcely reached 6 feet during that time. 



COCCIFER/E. 



Quercus coccifera. Linn. 



Q. foliis ovatis, undulatis , echinato-dentatis , basi rotundatis ; cupula 

 subsessili, pedunculo crasso, squamis spinulosis, spinis laxis, apice 

 subulatis, recurvis ; glande elongata cylindracea. 



Hab. In provincial Bsetica, et praesertim Tarraconensi vul- 

 garis. 



Quercus pseudo-coccifera. 



Q. foliis elongato-ovatis, planiusculis, nervosissimis, mnrgine spinosis, 

 spinis sursum spectantibus, basi cordatis; cupula breviter pedun- 

 culata , pedunculo crasso , squamis adpressis , margine undulato- 

 revolutis, nervo dorsali eminente, apice incurvis; glande brevius- 

 cula, conica. 



Q. pseudo-coccifera Desf. Fl. All. pag. 349. Labill. 



Dec. 5. tab. 6. fig. 2. fructus, excl. fig. 1. 

 Hab. In montosis Baeticee, in Lusitania circa Olisiponem , 



Cintram , Caldas da Rainha , et alibi. In monte Tingidis 



Djibbel Kibir. 



Quercus Calliprinos. 



Q. foliis ellipticis, planiusculis , margine spinulosis, spinis ascenden- 

 tibus ; cupula breviter pedunculata , pedunculo crasso , clavulato , 

 squamis elongatis, laxis , planis, apice subincurvis, ultra glandem 

 brevem , giobosulam , porrectis. 



Q. pseudo-coccifera Labill. Dec. S.pag. 9. tab. 6. fig. 1 . 



excl. fig. 2. et synon. Desf. 

 Hab. In montibus Djibbel Dersd Tetuanensium. 



Obs. The samples which I refer on account of the form of their 

 leaves, thongh with some doubt, to the Syrian plant of Labillardiere, 

 were collected in the mountains of Tetuan. Their leaves are downy 

 on both sides , but the fruit is in a very imperfect state. The des- 

 cription of the Calliprinos, which is very distinct from the African 

 species described by Desfonlaines under the somewhat barbarously 

 compounded name of pseudococcifera, has been framed from the 



