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Prodr. ii. 7 •, — ramulis 4-angulatis, rubescentibiis ; foliis sub- 
opppsitis, ellipticis, imo subacutis, versus apicem rotundiori- 
bus, bine acumine brevi repente coarctato, recurvatim canali- 
formibus, irregulariter serratis, dentibus acutis, glanduliferis, 
supra lucidis, subtus pallidioribus, epunctatis, nervis utrinque 
paulo prorainulis ; petiolo brevi, canaliculato ; raceniis axilla- 
ribus, paniculatis; pedicellis pluriinis, subumbellatis ; calyce 
pubescente ; drupis siccis, sub-8-suicatis. — Brasilia, v. v. in 
hort. Kew. cult, sub nom. “ Ilex Paraguayensis.” 
This is the species described by Sir Wm. Hooker as the 
Paraguay Tea-tree, which he figured in the ‘Botanical ^Magazine,’ 
as then growing in Glasgow, where it first flowered in June 1842, 
having been introduced into this country by Messrs. Luccomb 
and Pince of Exeter ; he again mentioned it in his interesting 
account of the Mate plant (Loud. Journ. Bot. i. 31). It is 
distinguished from all the preceding species by its quadrangular 
stems, its opposite serrated leaves (a character of frequent occur- 
rence in the preceding species), the teeth being very close and 
regular, and furnished with glandular points which are almost 
spinous : the recurved and suddenly contracted apex of the leaves 
affords an additional character. In all its essential features it 
corresponds with the species above quoted and described in 
Prince Maximilian Neuwied’s ‘Travels.^ It is certainly allied to 
the true Ilex Paraguayensis, which it resembles in the size of its 
leaves ; but it differs widely in its specific characters ; its leaves 
are less rigid and coriaceous, differently nerved, their margins 
being closely serrated, the petiole is more terete, and the in- 
florescence is very different. Both species, having epunctate 
leaves, belong to the first section of Reisseck’s distribution. 
The leaves are 3^ inches long, 2 inches broad, on a petiole 
3 lines in length ; their short sharp serratures are 1 or 2 lines 
distant from one another. I have not seen it in flower, the 
above floral characters being taken from the figure in the ‘ Bo- 
tanical Magazine.^ The raceme, as there shown, differs from 
that of the many preceding species in its primary branches 
bearing several umbellate pedicels and a cluster of flowers. 
The Ilex truncata of Prince Neuwied, recorded at the same 
time, appears to be a closely allied plant ; it is the Celastrus 
ilicifolius of Schrader, mentioned in DeCandolle^s ‘ Prodromus,’ 
ii. p. 7. 
Allied to these plants is the following species, which I found 
in the Organ Mountains, and which has been described by Dr. 
Reisseck under the name of 
Ilex ebenacea, Reiss, in Mart. Flor. Bras. fasc. 28. p. 44. 
