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montibus Gua 3 ^araca et Santa Cruz, versus Rio Pardo, in 
prov. Rio Grande, et in Missionibus, versus fluv. Parana, in 
prov. Corrientes (Bonpland, nos. 2449, 2471, 2332). 
The above two species of Bonpland appear to me identical, 
there being no difference, except that the one is the male plant, 
with somewhat paler leaves, the other being the female plant, 
with less elongated and extremelj" dark leaves. It is evidently 
one of the varieties of Reisseck’s Ilex Paraguariensis, but it 
bears no analogy whatever with the Paraguay tj-pe. It is one of 
the most esteemed kinds of Mate trees, and the tea yielded by 
it is so strong in flavour as to require tempering by admixture 
with others of a milder kind. The leaves are veiy much smaller 
than any of the preceding species, are attenuated at both ends, 
above are of a dark green (in the $ blackish green), polished, 
veinless, and deeply channelled at the place of the midrib ; 
beneath, in the ^ , glaucous, in the ? of a yellowish hue, 
opake, owing to a minutely granulated surface, which is re- 
motely spotted with small, immersed, black glands. In the S 
the leaves are 14-1 f inch long, 4 inch broad, on a petiole of 
34 lines ; in the $ they are 2-24 inches long, 5-8 lines broad, 
on a petiole of 24-3 lines. The flowers are numerous in the 
axils of the j'ounger branches, in a short fasciculated branching 
coiymb, the basal ramifications being slender, 2^ lines long, 
each bearing three small flowers on pedicels 2 lines long ; the 
four petals are three times as large as the sepals, orbicular, 
concave, glabrous, white, the flower expanded being 2 lines in 
diameter : in the c? the sterile ovary is depressed, broadly 8-rayed 
in the summit, with a small sessile 4-lobed stigma in the centre : 
in the $ the drupe is globular, line diam., crowned with a 
prominent mammiform sessile stigma ; it encloses three or four 
nuts *. 
6. Ilex ovalifolia, Bonpl. MSS. ; — Ilex Paraguariensis, Reiss, 
{non Sf.-Hil.) in Mart. Flor. Bras, xxviii. p. 63, var. longi- 
folia, tab. 13. fig. 16 ; — Ilex Paraguarensis, Spach, Phan. ii. 
430. pi. 16; — glaberrima, ramulis angulato-striatis ; foliis 
ellipticis vel elliptico-oblongis, utrinque acutis, apice breviter 
coarctato et obtuso, coriaceis, rigidulis, glaberrimis, obsolete 
dentatis, dentibus glandula miuuta donatis, margine cartila- 
gineo subreflexo, superne nitidulis, profunde viridibus vel 
brunnescentibus, nervis immersis vLx distinctis, ad costam 
sulcatis, subtus opacis, pallide glaucis aut flavescentibus, re- 
mote nigro-punctulatis, costa valde prominente, nervis sub- 
patentibus inter se arcuatis paulo prominulis ; petiolo sulcato. 
representation of this plant is shown in Plate 65 
