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Var, S. usitata, nob. ; — foliis e medio ad basin cuneatis, breviter 
et remote dentatis, dentibus glandula mucronulatis, margine 
paulo reflexis ; corymbo petiolo 2-plo longiore, e basi ramoso, 
ramis 3-4-floris, pedicellis longiusculis, tenuissimis, umbel- 
lato-fasciculatis, imo bracteolatis ; floribus 4-meris, glaberri- 
mis, parvulis ; drupa piperiformi. — Prov. San Paolo (Gaudi- 
chaud, no. 57). — An species distincta ? 
The leaves are 3-3^ inches long, If inch broad, on a petiole 
of 5 lines ; they are more finely toothed than the preceding : 
the primary branch of the axillary corymb is 2 lines long, the 
five or six fasciculated branchlets 3 lines, and the three pedicels 
at the extremity of each 2 lines long; the expanded flower is 
2 lin. diam. Both the ovary and ripe fruit are ci’owned with 
a flat sessile stigma, as in the Paraguayan type ; the drupe is 
globular, and nearly 3 lines in diameter*. 
2. Ilex Curitibensis, nob.; — Ilex Paraguariensis, St.-Hil. (in 
parte) Mem. Mus. ix. 351; Voy. Diam. i. 273; DC. Prodr. 
ii. 15 ; — Ilex Mat^, St.-Hil. PL Remarq. i. 41 ; — glaberrima, 
ramulis teretibus, angulato-striatis, fuscis, lenticellis notatis, 
junioribus subcompressis, acute 4-6-gonis ; foliis eUiptico- 
oblongis, imo cuneatis, apice breviter et repente acuminatis, 
acumine obtuso aut emarginato, grosse dentatis, dentibus 
paucis obtusis valde gibbis et apice glandula mucronatis, 
subcoriaceis, rigidulis, supra fuscescentibus, nitidis, costa 
nervisque omnino immersis, subtus pallidioribus, subferru- 
gineis, opacis, epunctatis; petiolo longiusculo, canaliculato; 
floribus $ paucis, in axillis fasciculatis, 4-meris; drupa ovata, 
stigmate pulvinato 4-lobo coronata, nucibus 4. — Prov. San 
Paolo, V. s. ex sylvis prope Curitiba ; etiam in hb. Delessert, 
Sorocaba (Sellow). 
This must be the plant collected by St.-Hilaire at Curitiba, 
and considered by him to be identical with the Paraguay species, 
which he does not appear to have seen ; the two plants, however, 
are manifestly difFerent. Here the branchlets are veiy angularly 
sulcated, shining, and, as well as the leaves, grow nearly black 
in drying ; the leaves are more distinctly cuneate, the dentations 
are fewer in number, and consequently larger, deeper, very 
obliquely rounded, each tooth having near its sinus a short acute 
mucronate gland ; the opacity on the lower side is caused by 
the presence of very minute and crowded granulations, which 
are very manifest under a lens : they have no immersed black 
glands, as in Reisseck’s second section of the genus ; the midrib 
is somewhat prominent below, polished, and very dark. The 
* This variety is shown in Plate 62 B. 
