530 LXXXVIII. MYRSINE®. (C. B. Clarke.) [Ardisia. 
peduncles axillary patent or suberect, pedicels stout, calyx-lobes in fruit 
rounded concave with membranous margins. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 129; Scheff 
Myrsin. 73; Wight Ic. t. 1212; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 137; Brand. For. 
Fl. 987; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 110, and in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 226. 
A. solanacea, Roxb. Cor. Pl. 97, t. 27, and Fl. Ind. i. 580; Bot. Mag. t. 1677 ; 
Wall. Cat. 9983. A. umbellata, Roth Nov. Sp. 123; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 582, 
and ed. Carey § Wall. ii, 273; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 531. A. litoralis, Andr. Bot. 
Rep. x. 630; Kurz For. Fl. à. 110, and in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 226. 
A. Wightiana, Wall. Cat. 2830. A. polycephala, Wight IU. t. 145 (mot of 
JVall.). A. obovata, Blume Bijd, 688; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 132. A. salicifolia, 
A. DC. l. c. 129. ^. elliptica, Bedd. For. Man. 138, ? of Thunb. A. rostrata, 
Hassk. in Flora 1868, p. 26?. Climacandra obovata and multiflora, Mig. Pl. 
Jungh. i. 199, 200. O. littoralis, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1871, pt. ii. 68,— 
Rheede Hort. Mal. v. t. 28. 
Throughout Ten, alt. 0—5000 ft.; from the HrwArava to CeyLon and SINGAPORE 
(not in Western and Desert India).—Disrnrs. Malaya, China. 
An erect, branched shrub. Leaves 6 by 2-2} in., coriaceous, nerves slender; 
petiole } in. Peduncles 1-2 in., near the apex of the branches or subremote there- 
from, divaricate or ascending, sometimes recurved, stout, more or less compressed ; 
umbels simple, sometimes compound, rarely lengthened into racemes ` pedicels 4-1 in. 
Buds} by} in, Flowers pink. Calyx-lobes LA in., elliptic, obtuse; in fruit enlarged, 
orbicular, closely pressed to the berry. Berry }—} in. wide, globose, slightly de- 
pressed, hardly striate.—Beddome proposes to take up Thunberg’s name, 4. elliptica, 
for this plant as being the oldest; but the description of A. elliptica (see DC, Prodr. 
viii. 138) is so curt that there can be no certainty that it is 4. humilis, 
\90% VAR. arborescens, Wall. Cat. 2289 (sp.); arborescent, leaves large, peduncles long 
very stout, inflorescence often compound. A. DC. Prodr. vii. 131.—Ava; Wallich. 
Wallich’s type specimen, however, in no wise differs from some Bengal A. humilis, 
which sometimes attains 25 feet, and has longer leaves and peduncles than in the 
common shrubby state. 
6 PIMELANDRA, 4. DC. 
Flowers in small scattered axillary rusty sessile umbels, racemes or 
corymbs, otherwise as Ardisia.—Species 10; extending from Khasia to Java. 
The last section of Ardisia only differs from Pimelandra in having the lateral 
inflorescence peduncled. A. DC. depended on the berry being oblong (not globose) as 
the main character of Pimelandra; this character A. DC. took from Wallich, Such 
obovate: oblong one-sided fruits, with the style-base lateral, are found not rarely both 
in P. Wallichit and eugeniefolia, but are all seedless, and probably due to some insect 
injury. The perfect fruit in these and all species of Pimelandra is globose, exactly 
as in Ardisia. 
1, P. eugenicefolia, Hook. f. in Gen. Pl. ii 647; leaves lanceolate- 
oblong caudate-acuminate crenate nearly glabrous prominently gland-dotted 
beneath, calyx-lobes minute in fruit. Ardisia eugenimfolia, Wall. Cat. 2276; 
A, DC. Prodr. viii. 180, 
East Mrs., alt. 2-4000 ft., frequent; Wallich, H. f. & T., Ee, 
A shrub, 3-6 ft. ; stem erect ` branches horizontal, tips rusty-pubescent, with com- 
planate foliage. Leaves 10 by 24 in. in Hooker's examples (usually one-third smaller), 
base cuneate or rhomboid, glabrous or scarcely villous on the midrib beneath, primary 
nerves prominent, inarching ; petiole 1 in., often rusty-pubescent. Inflorescence scarcely 
1 in. long, usually corymbose, sometimes subsimply racemose, rusty-pubescent ; bracts 
inconspicuous or caducous. Buds } in. Flowers altogether of Ardisia, but very 
small. Calyx-lobes } in. at fruit-time, ovate, subacute, finally deflexed, Berry } in. 
diam., globose, red, altogether (as is the seed) that of Ardisia.—Some of Hooker's 
specimens bear as many as 45 fruits on each branch, everyone being obovate-oblong 
