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53 . AQTJIFOLIACEJS OK TT.1CACE V.. 
1. Ilex. FI. mostly perfect. Cal. small 4-5-fid persistent. 
Cor. gamopetalous 4-5 or 6-partite rotate ; the lobes obtuse, 
Stam. as many as the lobes of cor. and adnate to its short 
tube ; antb. oblong. Ov. sessile subglobose 4-8-celled ; 
style 0 or short and thick ; stigma lobed, lobes as many as 
cells of ov. Fr. globose 4-8-pvrenous. 
1. Ilex L. 
Holly. 
1. I. Azevinho Sol. Azei'im or Azevinho. 
Arb. ; branches erect and proliferously umbellate through- 
out; 1. small obsoletely nerved and veined, ovato-elliptic or 
lanceolate, subacute at each end, mostly less and rarely more 
than half as broad as long, unarmed at the tip and mostly quite 
entire at the edges ; petioles moderately long ; H, in aggregate 
or single axillary and terminal distinctly stalked fork -branched 
leafless cymes towards the top of the last new shoots, shorter 
than the 1. ; their branches after flowering all marcescent and 
deciduous ultimately from their stalk or axis, leaving for fr. only 
the single central or axile fi. ; fr. persistent, always solitary on 
simple mostly subelongated ped. always much longer than the 
petioles, sparingly aggregate or clustered towards the upper 
part or top of the old penultimate shoots ; not cymose.— Sol. ! 
MSS. in BPI. ; Fydell s MS. Mad. List no. 86. 7. cestivalis 
Lam. Diet. iii. 147 F Pers. i. 151 P Bucli Mad. List 198. no. 422, 
7. aquifolium y (not S as quoted by DC. ii. 14. no. 2) v. 7. ba- 
learica Hort. Reg. Lam. Diet. iii. 145 P 7. balearica “ Desf. 
Arb. (1809) ii. 262” ? Spr. i. 494 ? DC. ii. 14. no. 2 ? Holl’s List 
in J. of Bot. i. 20. 7. maderensis Willd. Enum. Suppl. (1813) 
8 (ex Link sec. DC.) name only without descr. (not I. maden~ 
ensis Lam.). 7. canaricnsis Poir. Suppl. iii. (1813) 67 ; DC. ii. 
14. no. 4 ; WB. ! ii. 137. t. 69. 7. Perado Bucli Can. List 157. 
no. 518 and p. 183. no. 75 (not Ait.). — Tr. or subarb. per. Mad. 
reg. 2, and lower part of 3, cc. Clothing in some places open 
mountain-sides, or scattered elsewhere here and there in the 
thickets of Erica , Vaccinium , See. ; crest or ridge in the Cayados 
Ravine beyond Camacha; forming extensive thickets on the 
mountains at the head of the Machico Valley, at the top of the 
Penha d’Agua and on all the mountain chains above P t0 da 
Cruz; along the Levada dos Lamaceiros or da Rocha furada, 
and in Rib. Frio, daMetade and do Fayal ; above Seixal, about 
the mouth of the Rib. Fundo and thence along the way to Rib. 
da Janella, &c. May, June. — A small tr. 10-20 ft. high, with 
normally a distinct trunk 3-6 or 8 in. in diam. (10-25 in. in cir- 
cumf.) and a thick pyramidal bushy head like an Orange-tr., but 
