518 LXXXVIII, MYRSINEE. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Labisia. 
4. LA BISIA, Lindi. 
Small shrubs, with a creeping rhizome and short simple stem. Leaves 
lanceolate, acuminate, primary nerves nearly at right angles to the midrib; 
tiole dilated at the base. Flowers small, white, in axillary panicled spikes; 
racts very small Calyx b-toothed. Corolla 5-partite; segments ovate, 
induplicate-valvate in bud. Stamens 5, filaments short ; anthers oblong-linear. 
Ovary € globose; style cylindric, stigma small; ovules few. Fruit 
small, globose, l-seeded. Seed globose, base hollowed, albumen smooth ; em- 
bryo transverse.—Species 2, Malayan. 
1. L. pothoina, Lindi. in Bot. Reg. 31, t. 48; leaves glabrous or puberu- 
lous beneath entire or nearly so, flowers very shortly pedicelled clustered on the 
rachis of the linear rusty-pubescent panicle. Ardisia pumila, Blwme Bud. 688 ; 
A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 185, and Prodr. viii. 137 ; Scheff. Myrsin. 92. 
A.? spicata, Wall. Cat. 2273. 
Matacca and Stncapore; Wallich, &c.— DisrRIB. Sumatra to Borneo. 
Stem 6 in. Leaves 8 by 23 in., primary nerves horizontal, very numerous, close ; 
petiole 1-8 in., more or less winged its whole length.  Peduncles 1-2 in., from 1-3 
penultimate axils; spikes 1—4 in. Petals A in. dotted. Berry 3-4 in. diam. 
Var. pothoina proper ; petiole winged throughout its length. 
Van. lanceolata, Scheff. Myrsin. 93; petiole 2-4 in. not winged, base of leaf 
narrowed or rounded, pedicels 1-3 in.—Singapore, Lobb. Disrrie. Sumatra, Borneo. 
5. ARDISIA, Swartz. 
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves petioled. Flowers hermaphrodite, in axillary 
or terminal, simple or compound umbels or racemes; bracts small, deciduous 
(except in A. involucrata). Calyx 5- (rarely 4-) lobed, (sometimes 3-lobed in 
A. porosa), persistent, often somewhat enlarged in fruit. Corolla red, white, or 
wé: 5-partite; segments acute (in A. membranacea emarginate), twisted to 
the right in bud. Stamens 5; filaments very short (except in A. membranacea) ; 
anthers free, ovate-lanceolate, acute (in A. membranacea small, round), (in 
A. porosa opening by terminal pores). Ovary globose, narrowed upwards (in 
A, membranacea obovate-oblong); style cylindric, often much longer than the 
corolla-lobes, stigma punctiform; ovules few. Fruit globose or subglobose. 
Seed solitary, globose, albumen pitted or ruminated ; embryo horizontal.— 
Species 200, all tropical. 
The Indian species are very uniform in floral structure, except A. involucrata, 
membranacea and porosa, which differ possibly generically from all the rest—as much 
perhaps as do Pimelandra and Amblyanthus. 
* Panicle terminal, 1-2-divided, branches ending in corymbs often contracted 
almost to umbels, bracts not leaf-like. 
t Panicle stout, compound, 
l. A. crassa, Clarke; leaves narrow-oblong acute at both ends, panicle 
rusty-pubescent, branches and pedicels exceedingly thick, corolla broad short. 
Matacca ; Maingay.—Distris. Borneo. 
Branches round, stout, ending in a much-flattened panicle. Leaves 83 by 2 in, 
parallel-sided, subentire, coriaceous, glabrous, primary nerves nearly at right angles 
to the midrib; petiole 4 in. Panicle 5 in. (including the peduncle) ; branches remote, 
flattened, again divided; pedicels 3} in., umbelled, thickened upwards; bracteoles 
