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Leaves shortly acuminate, entire 
Flowers of both sexes in branched pedunculate 
cymes. 
Py renes 4 to 6 ; nerves of leaves 10 to 12 
pclll S ••• ••• • •• 
P 7 renes 8 
Cymes dense, capituliform; nerves of 
leaves 7 or 8 pairs 
Cymes branched, often paniculate, rather 
lax; nerves of leaves 6 to 8 pairs 
Imperfectly known 
4. I. glomerata. 
5. I. Maingayi. 
6. I. macrophylla. 
7. I. cymosa. 
8. I. sclerophylla. 
1. Ilex spicata, Bl. Bijdr. 1149. A glabrous shrub (sometimes 
epiphytal, fide Blume) ; young branches rather stout, pale, glabrous. 
Leaves coriaceous, elliptic, shortly and abruptly caudate-acuminate, the 
base rounded or slightly cuneate ; the midrib stout, prominent beneath, 
depressed above ; main nerves 7 to 12 pairs, faint, spreading (not much 
more prominent than the secondary) straight, interarching within the 
edge ; length 3’5 to 6 in., breadth 1*5 to 2 in., petiole '2 in. Racemes soli¬ 
tary or in pairs, axillary, ‘75 to 1*5 in. long, sub-erect or spreading, pube- 
rulous, the bracts minute, pedicels 1 in. long. Flowers shorter than the 
pedicels. Calyx rather flat, with 4 or 5 broad rounded lobes. Petals 
broadly oblong, united at the base, finally reflexed. Stamens as many as 
the petals, inserted at their edges near the base ; filaments longer than 
the corolla, anthers small. Female flowers like the male, but the petals 
and stamens smaller. Ovary broadly ovoid, compressed, 16-celled; the 
stigma large, sessile, elongate. Drupe *15 in. long, broadly ovoid, com¬ 
pressed, the stigma persistent; pyrenes 10 to 16, compressed. Hook, 
fil. FI. Br. Ind. I, 598. Prinos spicata , Miq. FI. Ind. Bat., 1, Pt. 2, 594. 
Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 390. Perak: King’s Col¬ 
lector, No. 2463.— Distrib. Java, (?) Borneo, Sumatra. 
A species readily distinguished by its compressed fruit which has 
moreover many pyrenes (from 10 to 16). 
2. Ilex epiphytica , King, n. sp. A small glabrous epiphytic shrub ; 
young branches rather stout, pale brown, striate. Leaves coriaceous, 
oval or elliptic, sometimes sub-obovate, very obtuse, the edges entire 
recurved when dry, the base slightly narrowed ; main nerves 5 or 6 
pairs, rather straight, spreading, not prominent; length 2 to 2'75 in., 
breadth 1 to P35 in., petiole *15 in., stout. Female flowers in axillary 
fascicles of 5 to 7, *15 in. in diam., their pedicels '15 in. long. Calyx with 
5 to 7 broadly ovate concave obtuse imbricate teeth, puberulous at the 
edges. Petals 6, oblong, sub-obtuse, longer than the calyx, free, nearly 
equal, imbricate. Ovary broadly ovoid, tapering to the very short style, 
