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Ilex Coknuta. 

 A fine, hardy, ever- 

 green Holly, from the 

 North of China. Intro- 

 duced by Messrs. Standish 

 and Co. (Fig. 26.) 



I. cornuta ; folis oblongis 

 coriaceis marginatis basi obtusis 

 apice truncatis in planta vege- 

 tiore gross£ sinuatodentatis 

 spinosis in adulta. 3-cornibus in- 

 tegrisque, umbellis axillaribus 

 sessilibus, baccis 4-pyrenis. 



When Mr. Fortune was in 

 China, in the service of the Horticultural 

 Society, he found this in flower somewhere 

 in the neighbourhood of Shanghae, in the 

 month of April. During a subsequent 

 visit to that country he again met with it, 

 ,and in fruit, at a place called Kin-tang. 

 It is a very remarkable plant, and promises 

 to be, to English gardens, of much im- 

 portance, on account of its hard, dark 

 green, evergreen foliage and large berries. 

 The leaves are almost always furnished with 

 three strong spines at the end, but when the 

 plant is young there are added one or two 

 more on each side. In the old plant the 

 latter wholly disappear, while the end spines 

 will occasionally extend, turn up their 

 edges, and assume the appearance of strong 

 horns. 



Ilex Microcarpa. Another hardy 

 evergreen Holly from the North 

 of China. Introduced by Messrs. 

 Standish and Co. (Fig. 27.) 



I. microcarpa ; foliis ovalibus integerrimis 

 petiolatis utrinque acutis glabris, umbellis 

 pedunculatis petiolo brevioribus, fructibus 

 tetrapyrenis. 



