ILEX. 
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2. 1. Per ado Ait. Per ado. 
Shr. sparingly and remotely branched, branches elongated 
weak and flaunting, horizontally spreading or declining, the 
upper more erect sometimes subumbellate ; 1. large and broad, 
distinctly nerved and veined, broadly oval or oblong-oval, always 
more than half and often nearly or quite as broad as long, mostly 
flat or but slightly undulate thick stiff and rigid, abruptly and 
shortly acuminate, always mucronate or tipped with a small 
hard pungent spinule and mostly more or less spinuloso-serrate 
at the edges, rarely quite entire ; petioles very short ; fl. like the 
fr. solitary on short 1- (very rarely 2-3-)fld. ped. aggregate in 
clusters on very short axillary spurs (abortive branchlets) to- 
wards or at the top of the last new shoots ; ped. short, scarcely 
longer than the petioles or the diam. of the persistent fr. — Sol. ! 
MSS. in BH. 5 Fydell’s ! MS. Mad. List no. 85 5 Ait. ! Hort. 
Kew. (ed. 1) i. 169, (ed. 2) i. 278 ; Willd. Sp. PI. i. 708 ; Pers. 
i. 151 j Buch ! Mad. List 198. no. 421 ; DC. ii. 14. no. 3 ; Spr. 
i. 495 ; WB. ii. 137 ; Seub. Fl. Az. 46 ; Wats, in Godm. Az. 
146. I. maderiensis (sic) Lam. Diet. iii. 146 (not sec. Link, I. 
maderensis Willd. Enurn. Suppl. 8) ; Duliam. Tr. des Arbr. (ed. 
nov. 1801-1816) i. p. 7. t. 2. I. crassifolia Meerb. Ic. pict. t. 4. 
1. platyphylla WB. ! ii. 135, t. 68 (forma arborea) ; Bot. Mag. 
t. 4079 (inflorescentia nimis luxuriante submonstrosa). Aqui- 
folium amplissimis foliis ex Insults Fortunatis Pluk. Aim. 38. 
t. 262. f. 1. — Shr. per. Mad. reg. 3, §. Here and there, occa- 
sionally but not commonly, in thickets of Erica , Vaccinium, &c., 
chiefly in ravines with I. Azevinho, but much less frequent and 
not forming thickets by itself. Bib. da Metade along the Le- 
vada, Boa Ventura, Serra do Seixal, Levada dos Lamaceiros or 
da Rocha furada above P 10 da Cruz ; not seen below 3000 ft. 
Apr., May. — Always in Mad. a mere straggling shr. 3-6 or 8 ft. 
high branched from the base, the branches loose remote and 
flaunting, mostly gr. -barked till 2 or 3 years old. L. 2-3^ in. 
long, 1^-2 broad, often distichous or all in one plane, of a lighter 
or brighter gr. and mostly thicker stifler substance than I. Aze- 
vinho, with the veins more distinct and with a strong pellucid 
nerve forming the edge or border and produced at regular or ir- 
regular intervals into line short pellucid spinules pointing for- 
wards in the plane of the leaf itself, rarely perfectly entire or 
without at least 1 or 2 spinules and never without one at the 
tip. A little within the margin each primary nerve bends 
a.rcuately upwards and joins the next above it, forming a series 
of outwardly convex loops or scallops and enclosing about 8 ob- 
long spaces on each side the midrib between the 8 or 9 primary 
nerves. The lower or smaller 1. on the branches are sometimes 
almost or quite orbicular or rounded; all are mostly very thick 
and rigid but only slightly undulate, shining above, paler and 
