Ap.iJ,i9«] T . MAKINO.— OBSERVATIONS OFTHE FLORA OF JAPAN. 



■educed. 



Ilex Mutchagara Makino, sp. nov. (Fig. II. A.) 



Ilex crenata Ito et Matsum. Tent. Fl. Lutch. in Journ. Sc. 

 Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, XII. (1899), p. 367, non Thunb. 



Ilex crenata Matsum. Ind. PI. Jap. II. 2 (1912), p. 314, 

 pro parte, non Thunb. 



Hex crenata forma a. genuina Loeskxek, Monogr. Aquifol. 

 (1901), p. 201, pro parte. 



A shrub, sempervirent, densely ramose ; branches terete, 

 striate, glabrous ; branchlets erect-patent, slender, sulcato- 

 striate, viridescent, glabrous or minutely puberulent in the sulci. 

 Leaves dense, shortly 

 petiolate, oblancedate 

 to obovato-oblong, 

 or narrowly oblong, 

 obtuse or emargi- 

 nato-obtuse at the 

 apex, cuneate to- 

 wards the base, sub- 

 regularly or irregular- 

 ly crenato-serrate or 

 sometimes sharply 

 serrate except the 

 entire base, narrowly 

 marginate on margin, 

 lucid and green above, 

 paler and often 



very thinly brown- 

 ish- p u nc t i culate 

 under lens beneath, 

 coriaceous or char- 

 taceo-coriaceous, gla- 

 brous, 2|-6jcm. long, 

 9-26 mm. wide, usual- 

 ly darkish in the 

 upper surface when 

 dry; nervation incon- 

 spicuous ; midrib 



