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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
lato; racemis axillaribus, multifloris, ternatim compositis, 
petiolo 2-4-plo longioribus ; floribus 4-meris pedicellisque 
pilosulis ; ovario in d depresso, radiatim sulcato, in $ ovato ; 
stignaate pulvinato, 4.1obo. — Brasilia, ad Campos de Goita- 
cazes, versus ostium fluv. Parahyba, prov. Rio de Janeiro. — 
V. V. ad Rio de Janeiro, in hort. bot. Imp. cult. ( d et 5 )j et 
in hort. Kew. Lond. introduct. ( d ).— w. s. in herb. Delessert 
(Guillemin, no. 95 $). 
This has always appeared to me a perfectly distinct species, differ- 
ing widely in all respects from Ilex Paragucnjensis, of which it was 
considered to be a mere variety by Sir Wm. Hooker. I find no 
species in Reisseck’s enumeration of the genus that corresponds 
with it : he appears, however, to have known this plant only 
from Sir Wm. Hooker’s drawing of it, and he makes it identical 
with Ilex affinis, Gardn. (no. 3086). It is clear to me that, if 
he had been able to compare these plants with one another, he 
would have come to a very different conclusion. In the male 
plant under consideration, the leaves, sometimes alternate, fre- 
quently opposite, are lanceolately oblong, pointed towards both 
extremities, pale on both faces, very reticulated, toothed on the 
margin at nearly equal distances, the teeth being rounded ex- 
ternally, with an aeute gland near the sinus ; the under surface 
of the leaves is spotted all over with very distinct black dots. 
They are 3f inches long, !§■ inch broad, on a petiole nearly 
4 lines in length. The ihflorescence is a simple panicle, J~l^ inch 
long, with alternate secondary pedicels H line long, each sur- 
mounted by three pedicellets 1 line long, bearing flowers which 
before bursting are globular, and 1 line diam. ; the flowers are 
4-merous, the calyx pubescent, the petals have ciliated margins, 
the ovary is depressed and radiately sulcate, with a small 4-lobed 
stigma. In the female plant the leaves are of similar form, but 
somewhat smaller, fuscous and enervose above, more rigid in 
texture, the margins more reflexed, and the under surface opake 
and of a dull yellow colour : the inflorescence is more racemose, 
bearing 3-5 or 7 flowers, which are somewhat larger and 4- 
merous ; the sepals are small, orbicular, and ciliated, the petals 
obovate and smooth, the ovary globular, with a small mammi- 
form 4-grooved stigma. Padre Velloz, who has figured the 
female plant, says it is called Congonlia, and is used as Mate ; 
but it is more bitter than the ordinary Herva de Curitiba*. 
8. Ilex acutangula, Neuw. ex Nees in Flor. 1821, p. 329; — Hex 
Paraguayensis, Hook, [non St. -HU.) Bot. Mag. 3992 ; — Celas- 
trus 4-angulatus, Schrad. Gdtt. Anz, 1821, p. 716; DC. 
* The male plant is shown in Plate 66 a, the female plant in Plate 66 b. 
