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prominent beneath, canaliculato-impressed above ; veins loose, 

 about 4—7 on each side, scarcely visible or nearly invisible, 

 erect-patent, straight or arcuate downwards or upwards ; 

 veinlets invisible ; petiole semiterete, canaliculated in front, 

 often very minutely puberulent, 2—8 mm. long. Cyme (male) 

 small, much shorter than leaves, fasciculate on a branchlets 

 shortened or alternate on a small branchlets (of this year) 

 lengthened, often 3-flowered or 1-flowered, about 11 mm. or 

 less long; peduncle gracile, minutely puberulent, about 3-7 mm. 

 long ; pedicels minutely subpuberulent, about 2-3^ mm. long ; 

 bracts and bracteoles minute, deltoid or deltoid-subulate. 

 Flowers (male) small, 4.-merous. Calyx-lobes semiorbiculate, 

 concave, very minutely ciliolated below. Petals oval. Sta- 

 mens glabrous ; filament \e\y short ; anther elliptical, deeply 

 bifid at the base. Rudimentary pistil minute. Drupe globose, 

 solitary, with a persistent calyx at the base, black when 

 mature, glabrous, smooth, about 7—8 mm. across ; pedicel 

 axillary, solitary, strict, gradually enlarged towards the fruit, 

 2-bracteate in the middle, minutely puberulent, about 9-15 mm. 

 long; bracts subulate. Pyrenas oval-elliptical, 3-angulate, 

 yellowish, smooth, thin, coriaceous, about 5 mm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Mutchagara (vernacular), Shima-inutsuge (T. 

 Makino). 



Rah. LIUKIU : Kunchan in Isl. Okinawa (Y. Tashiro ! 

 herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, May 1887 ; J. Matsumura ! 

 herb. ibid. May 1897), Between Onna and Nago in Kunchan, 

 Isl. Okinawa (S. Tanaka! herb. ibid. May 16, 1891), Mt. Nago 

 in Isl. Okinawa (G. Nakahara ! herb. ibid. April 1907 ; S. 

 Yajima ! herb. ibid. Jan. 19, 1911), Mt. Onna in Isl. Okinawa 

 (S. Kanagusuku ! July 1910), Isl. Kume (H. Kuroiwa ! April 

 1898); YAYEYAMA ARCHIP. : Isl. Iriomote (S. Tanaka! herb, 

 ibid. June 15-19, 1891). 



This species is very closely allied to Ilex crenata Thunb.j 

 but in the latter the branchlets are less sulcato-striate, and 

 leaves are usually smaller and thicker, more numerously and 

 conspicuously punctate beneath, mucronate-tipped at the apex, 



