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pedimculo commimi brevissimo fere sessilibiis, pedicellis basi bi- 
bracteolatis simplicibus, floris 4—5-meris, calycis lobis latis. 
Arb uscilla; rami ciiierasceiiti-fusci rugulose siibstriati pul vinis 
foliorum prominentibus, glabri; petiolus 8—12 mm. Ig. ob lamiuam 
decurrentem utrinque subtus sulcatus; lamiiia 4—•7^/2 cm. Ig., 2^/2 
—5 cm. It., in sicco glaucescenti-viridis; costa media supra im- 
pressa subtus prominens, laterales et costulæ subtus prominulæ. 
Bracteolæ minimæ ovatæ. Pedicelli 4—6 mm. Ig. pilosi apicem 
versus crassiores. Calyx diam. 2—3 mm. Fructus subglobosus c. 
3 mm. diam. — Ad Lagoa Santa in silvis (W.). 
8. Ilex psaltorioicles Keiss. 1. c. 61. — „Congonlia“. — 
Serra da Piedade; in campestribus saxosis^ frutex paucipedalis 
fronde viridissima; fl. Nov., fr. Jan Febr. et Maio: Lund, W. 
9. Ilex diuretica Mart., Reiss. 1. c. 61. — Serra da Ita- 
bira do camp o, m. Febr. fl.; Lund. Specimina mea paullum a 
descriptione Eeissekii differunt. Lamina sæpius exacte elongato- 
elliptica medio latissima, petiolo brevissimo in nonnullis c. 2 mm. 
longo, margine dentato-serrato baud serrulato-crenulato, subtus crebre 
punctulata; pedunculus petiolum multo superans 6—7 mm. Ig., 
cymam trifloram v. florem solitarium gerens. — Hue certe etiam * 
referenda smit specimina in campis alpestribus Serra do Cara 9 a 
a Patre Dom. Musci collecta et mibi communicata. 
10. Ilex Curitihenses Miers, in xliin. and Magazine of natural 
bistory, 3 Ser., vol. VIII, 1861, p. 393 et Contributions to botany, 
vol. II, 1860—69, p. 103, tab. 63 („On tbe bistory of tbe Maté- 
Plant and tbe different species of Ilex employed in tbe Prepara- 
tion of tbe Yerba de Maté or Paraguay Tea“). Ex Miers = 
I. Paraguariensis St. Hil. (pro parte) Mém. Mus. IX, 351; Yoy. 
Diam. I, 273; DC. Prodr. II, 15. — Ilex Maté St. Hil. PI. Re- 
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‘?‘‘ — „In montibus Organensibus (Oardner n. 346)“. — Hue 
