508 LXXXVIII. MYRSINEZ. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Mesa. 
short, stigma capitate or shortly 3-5-lobed; ovules numerous, placenta globose. 
Berry globose (in M. mollis hirsute), of the size of a peppereorn, Seeds 
numerous, subtrapezoid.— Species 35, in the tropies of the Old World. 
The inflorescence is often monstrous, the flowers being replaced by densely imbri- 
cating bracteoles. 
* Leaves glabrous, sometimes scaly or furfuraceous when young. 
T Leaves entire or obscurely denticulate. 
1. M. ramentacea, A. DC. Prodr. viii. 77; leaves coriaceous elliptic- 
lanceolate acuminate entire, base rounded or wide-rhomboid, secondary ner- 
vation obscure, racemes compound usually much longer than the petioles and 
often than the leaves. PME Myrsin. 15; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 
220, and For. F}, ii. 99. M. lanceolata, Don Prodr. 148 (not of Forsk.). M. 
acuminata, missionis and glabra, A. DC. 1.0.77, 78, 82. M. sumatrana, Scheff. 
l.c. Bæobotrys ramentacea, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 16, and Fl. Ind. i. 558; Wall. 
Cat. 2322. B. glabra, Roxb. Lc. 560. B. fragrans, Wall. Cat. 2323. B. 
acuminata, Spreng. Syst. Index, v. 89. B. ? missionis. Wall. Cat. 6523. 
EasrERN BENGAL and the EASTERN PrNiNsULA, alt. 0-3000 ft., common from 
Bhotan to Singapore.—Disrris. Malaya to Borneo. 
An erect tree, 30 ft., with straight stem and lanceolateoutline; or more commonly 
a gregarious bush on the low dry hills; branches rarely verrucose. Leaves 4-5 by 
1} in., margin slightly thickened ; primary nerves conspicuous beneath, distant, about 
8 on each side; petiole 4 in. Racemes usually equalling the leaf, from half as long 
to twice as long, glabrous.— Beobotrys (v. Mesa) acuminata, Wall. Cat. 2321, is 
Gymnosporia acuminata, Hook. f. 
Var. ovata, A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 133, t. 4 (sp.); leaves larger ovate 
or ovate-cordate. Scheff. Myrsin. 14. Beobotrys ovata, Wall. Cat. 2324.—Penang ; 
Wallich. South Malay Peninsula; frequent. Nicobars; Kurz.— Distrib. Malaya.— 
Leaves 6 by 3 in. in the extreme forms from the south, smaller in the Burmese 
examples, panicle sometimes very large in both. The figure of A. DC. does not show 
(as Scheffer has observed) the extreme form of M. ovata, but one near the type. 
Wallich’s typical plant has cordate-ovate leaves, and nerves deeply impressed in the 
upper surface. 
2. M. andamanica, Kurz For. Fi. ii, 575, and in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, 
pt. ii. 220; leaves coriaceous elliptic acuminate rounded at the base obscurely 
dentieulate secondary nervation obscure, racemes as long or twice as long as the 
leaves. M. verrucosa, Kurz For. FI. ii. 98, not of Scheff. 
SOUTH AnpAMAN Istanp; in forests, Kurz. 
An evergreen, small tree; all parts glabrous; branches verrucose. Leaves 3 by 
1} in., primary nerves 6-8 on each side ; petiole i m. Racemes, in Kurze example 
in young flower, sometimes more than twice the petiole, not shorter than in some 
examples of M. ramentacea, from which it scarcely differs but by the minute denticu- 
lation of the leaves. 
no? 3. M. rugosa, Clarke; leaves coriaceous narrowly lanceolate caudate 
cuneate at the base obscurely denticulate rugose, racemes longer than the 
petioles scarcely one-third the length of the leaves. M. montana, var. coriacea, 
Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T., not M. coriacea, Champ. 
Sixx1M, alt. 5-7000 ft. ; in the upper valleys of the Teesta and Ratong, frequent ; 
J. D. H., &c. 
A stout shrub, probably becoming a tree; branchlets very sparingly warted. 
Leaves 7} by 1} in., scaly or furfuraceous when young, glabrous or glandular-puberu- 
lous when old; primary nerves 12-15 on each side, much raised beneath, secondary 
uniting them at right angles, often subprominent, ultimate reticulating very obscure ; 
petiole $ in. Zacemes 1-2 in., panicled, glandular-puberulous or glabrous. 
