— i 
Ardisia. | LXXXVIII. MyRsINEZ. (C. B. Clarke.) ` 525 
rarely 2, lateral secondary umbels, always supported by a leaf (Roxburgh). Buds i 
in., ovate, acute. Flowers rose or white, often spotted. Calya-lobes (in fruit) } in., 
ovate. 
Var. angusta; leaves narrowly lanceolate, flowering pedicels 1 in. divaricate. 
buds very obtuse, corolla-segments broad.—Malacea ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3584). 
—Leaves 3 by } in., tapering at both ends, primary nerves carried almost undivided 
to the obscure crenatures, whole surface gland-dotted. Buds 3 in. 
26. A. Kurzii, Clarke; glabrous, leaves obovate-lanceolate entire reti- 
culated beneath, calyx-segments small obtuse. A. polycephala, var. acuminata, 
Kurz For. Fl. ii. 110, and in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 225. 
Prov and ManrAnAN ; in the tropical forests, Kurz. 
Leaves 8 by 24 in., shortly acuminate, cuneate at the base ; primary nerves beneath 
prominently inarching at some distance from the margin, secondary nerves distinctly 
reticulated; petioles 2 in. Umbel (very young) compounded of 3 umbellules ; 
bracts A in., elliptic, deciduous, kurz has observed that this is perhaps distinet 
from A. polycephala. 
27. A. villosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall.ii. 274; innovations 
rusty-villous, leaves lanceolate, umbels rusty-villous, calyx-segments + in. 
linear-lanceolate. Wail. Cat. 2280; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 136 ; Scheff. Myrsin. 
90; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 113, and in Journ, As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii, 227. A. 
vestita, Wall. in Roxb. l.c. in note; A. DC. l. e. A. mollis, lume Bud. 689. 
A. glabrata, Blume Bijd. 692; A. DC. l.c. A. Tavoyana, A, DC. in Trans. 
Linn, Soc. xvii. 125. 
From Mereu to Maracca and Pxxaxa, frequent.— DisrRIB. Malaya. 
A small shrub. Leaves 6-8 by 3-2} in., narrowed at both ends, sparingly crenate 
or nearly entire, more or less rusty-villous on the lower or on both surfaces ; petiole 
lin. Umbels simple, or several together, very shortly peduncled ; bracts 1-1 in. 
elliptic; pedicels 1-3 in. patently villous. Calyx subcorolloid, whitish ; segments 
villous without, within glabrous or (in the very hairy forms) hairy. Corolla small, 
hardly so long as the calyx. Berries 3 in., globose, shorter than the sepals.—A some- 
"what variable, though easily recognised species; leaves very broadly laneeolate in 
some of Griffith's Mergui specimens, linear-lanceolate in Maingay's Malacca ones ; 
often nearly glabrous (in age) except the midrib beneath ; more frequently villous 
beneath; in the form vestita, clothed with long fulvous hairs also above. 
Var. ? obtusa; leaves obovate-oblong subobtuse, umbels in short shortly- 
peduneled corymbs.—Shevagherry Hills, South Deccan Peninsula, Wight.— Lateral 
branches divaricate below the summit of the main branch, leafy upwards ; terminated 
by the corymb. Peduncle } in.; corymb repeatedly dichotomous ; rusty-pubescent ; 
pedicels 1-3 in. -Calyx-segments ¢ in., ovate-lanceolate.—Perhaps a distinct species, 
but the solitary example in Herb. Wight is without flowers; it is very like Hymen- 
andra Wallichii, but the calyx-teeth are too large for that. 
**** Umbels peduncled or panicled, axillary, the lower (at least) always 
peduncled without leaves or leaf-like bracts at the apex of the peduncles. 
+ Plant not wholly glabrous, branchlets at least hairy or pubescent, 
1 Leaves serrate or crenate. 
28. A. odontophylla, Wall. Cat. 2279 (not of Lindl.) ; branchlets 
upwards rusty-villous, leaves long-petioled elliptic sharply finely serrate villous 
at least on the midrib beneath, peduncles (some of them) remote from the apex 
of the branch ascending. A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 125, t. 6, and 
Prodr. viii. 135. ; 
Kuasta and JarwTEA Mrs., alt. 1-4000 ft., frequent; Wallich, H. Ji d X. Oe, 
Parkoxk Mrs., S.E. of Assam; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3566). Cacman; Keenan. 
