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the drupe is 3 lin. diam., with a prominent mammiform and 
obsoletely 4-lobed stigma. In another spceimen the leaves are 
more polished, extremely smooth above, the margin showing a 
disposition to beeome toothed ; they are pale brown above and 
fuscous brown beneath, the petiole being thinner and 3-carinated 
below*. 
4. Ilex amara, Bonpl. MSS.; — ramulis rubellis, glaberrimis, 
striato-angulatis ; folds lanceolatis, imo longe cuneatis, versus 
apiceni cuneatis, et hinc obtusiusculis et emarginatis, ultra 
medium integerrimis, hinc inde serratis, dentibus extus ro- 
tundatis, apice glanduliferis, margine vix revoluto, glaber- 
rimis, crassiusculis, superne nitidis, pallide viridibus, nervis 
costaque mediana rubella immersis, subtus davo-opacis, epunc- 
tatis, nervis tenuissimis, anastomosantibus, inconspicuis ; pe- 
tiolo flavo, angusto, canaliculato. — In sylvis circa Missiones, 
ad ripas fluvii Paranensis, et ad montem Santa Cruz in prov. 
Rio Grande. 
Tliis is a still more distinct species, with lanceolate leaves, 
which are cuneate and entire for two-thirds of their length, their 
summit being shortly attenuated and emarginated ; above, they 
are opake and very smooth, almost nerveless, with a reddish flat 
midrib ; they are pale green, somewhat paler and yellowish be- 
low, where their delicate nervures are scarcely prominent, and 
their midrib, of an orange-red colour, is not much raised. They 
are 2^-2| inches long, f inch broad, on a petiole 4 lines long. 
The specimen has neither flower nor fruit. In form the leaves 
somewhat resemble those of I. nigropunctata, but they want the 
peculiar dotted glands so conspicuous in that speciesf. 
5. Ilex Humboldtiana, Bonpl. MSS. (stirps 6) ; — Ilex crepitans, 
Bonpl. MSS. {stirps $ ) ; — Ilex Paraguarieusis, Reiss, {non 
St.-Hil.), var. angustifolia, Flor. Bras, xxviii. p. 63. tab. 13. 
fig. 17; — glaberrima, ramulis rugulosis, subangulatis ; foliis 
confertis, lanceolatis, utrinque gradatim attenuatis, summo 
anguste obtusis, crassiusculis, obsolete dentatis, dentibus 
glanduliferis, superne nitidis, olivaceo-viridibus vel atroviren- 
tilus, laevissimis, fere enerviis, ad costam profunde sulcatis, 
subtus flavesceutibus aut pallide ferrugineis, nervulis sub- 
patentibus paulo prominulis inter se arcuatim nexis, hinc 
remote nigro-punctulatis ; petiolo tenui, canaliculato ; paui- 
culis axillaribus, e basi ramis 3-6, fasciculatis, ramis 3-doris, 
floribus 4-meris, glaberrimis; drupis parvis, globosis, stig- 
mate mammieformi sub-4-lobo coronatis, nucibus 3-4. — In 
* This species is represented in Plate 64 a. 
t A drawing of this species will be seen in Plate 64 b. 
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