pedunculo communi brevissimo fere sessilibus, pedicellis basi bi- 
bracteolatis simplicibus, floris 4—5-meris, calycis lobis latis. 
Arbuscula; rami cinerascenti-fusci rugulose substriati pulvinis 
foliorum prominentibus, glabri; petiolus 8—12 mm. Ig. ob laminam 
decurrentem utrinque subtus sulcatus; lamina 4—7Va cm. lg., 2 1 /a 
—5 cm. It., in sicco glaucescenti-viridis; costa media supra im¬ 
pressa subtus prominens, laterales et costula subtus prominulae. 
Bracteola minima ovata. Pedicelli 4—6 mm. lg. pilosi apicem 
versus crassiores. Calyx diam. 2—3 mm. Fructus subglobosus c. 
3 mm. diam. — Ad Lagoa Santa in silvis (W.). 
8. Ilex psaltorioides Eeiss. 1. c. 61. — „Congonba“. — 
Serra da Piedade; in campestribus saxosis frutex paucipedalis § 
fronde viridissima; fl. Fov., fr. Jan Febr. et Maio: Lund, W. 
9. Ilex diuretica Mart., Eeiss. 1. c. 61. — Serra da Ita- 
bira do campo, m. Febr. fl.: Lund. Specimina mea paullum a ’* 
descriptione Eeissekii differunt. Lamina saepius exacte elongato- £ 
elliptica medio latissima, petiolo brevissimo in nonnullis c. 2 mm. 1 
longo, margino dentato-serrato haud serrulato-crenulato, subtus crebre •* 
punctulata; pedunculus petiolum multo superans 6—7 mm. lg., I 
cymam trifloram v. florem solitarium gerens. — Huc certe etiam : i 
referenda sunt specimina in campis alpestribus Serra do Caraga * 
a Patre Dom. Musci collecta et mihi communicata. 
10. Ilex Curitibenses Miers, in Ann. and Magazine of natural 
liistory, 3 Ser., vol. VIII, 1861, p. 393 et Contributions to botany, 
vol. II, 1860—69, p. 103, tab. 63 („On the liistory of the Mate- 
Plant and the different species of Ilex employed in the Prepara- 
tion of tlie Yerba de Mate or Paraguay Tea“). Ex Miers = 
I. Paraguariensis St. Hil. (pro parte) Mem. Mus. IX, 351; Yoy. I 
Diam. I, 273; DC. Prodr. II, 15. — Ilex Mate St. Hil. Pl. Ee- 
marq. I, 41. — In silvis prope Curitiba, Sorocaba (ex Miers). 
Var. Gardneriana Miers, 11. cc. Ilex Paraguayensis Hook. 
(pro parte) Lond. Journ. Bot. I, 35, tab. 1. — „An species di¬ 
stincta? 1 ' — „In montibus Organensibus (Gardner n. 346)“. — Huc I 
