532 LXXXVIII. MymsmNEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Antistrophe. 
solitary, stony when dry, globose, albumen ruminated; embryo transverse.— 
Species 2, Indian. 
l. A. oxyantha, 4. DC. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 2, xvi. 84, and Prodr. viii. 
92; leaves entire glabrous beneath strongly gland-dotted, buds ovate rostrate- 
acuminate, Ardisia oxyantha, Wall. Cat. 2275; A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
xvii. 121. 
Kuasta, alt. 3-4000 ft.; Wallich, H. f. 4 T., &e. 
Shrub 6 ft. high; branches horizontal, nearly glabrous. Leaves 6 by 13 in., 
caudate-acuminate, base cuneate, nerves prominent beneath inarching ; petiole 1-3 in. 
Pedicels 4 in., several or few together, fascicled on exceedingly short lateral spurs. 
Buds 4 by 4 in., somewhat suddenly narrowed into a beak, which encloses the mem- 
branous tip of the connectives. Calyx-teeth 5 in., puberulous, whitened on the 
margins. Berries X in. and upwards, globose, smooth, thinly obscurely vertically 
striate, 
2, A. serratifolia, Hook. f. in Gen. Pl. ii. 647 ; leaves regularly closely 
serrate rusty-villous on the nerves beneath, buds conical acute. Ardisia serrati- 
folia, Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 113. 
ANAMALLAY and Commatore Hitts, ascending to 3000 feet, in moist weods ; 
Beddome. 
An erect shrub; branches towards their ends (and all the innovations) rusty- 
villous. Leaves 6} by 13 in., acute at both ends; nerves prominent beneath, curving 
much upwards, inarching ; gland-dots small or obseure; petiole } in. Pedicels j in., 
several or few together, minutely rusty-pubescent, fascicled on exceedingly short 
lateral spurs. Buds} by lin. Calya-teeth +, in., pubescent, whitened on the margins. 
Corolla-segments lanceolate-acuminate, gland-dotted, Berry not seen. 
8 HYMENANDRA, 4. DC. 
A robust, low shrub. Leaves large, obovate-oblong, crenate-dentate. 
Umbels compound, subsessile, terminal on short lateral branches from near the 
summit of the stem. ` Calyx-lobes 5, ovate, subacute. Corolla-lobes 5, long- 
lanceolate, strongly twisted to the right in bud. Stamens 5, attached at the 
throat of the corolla, filaments very short; anthers ovoid, connectives dilated 
above the anther and united into a membranous 5-toothed tube. Ovary globose, 
narrowed into a filiform style, stigma punctiform; ovules several, on a globose 
sessile placenta. Berry globose. Seed 1, globose, albumen wrinkled ; embryo 
transverse. 
H. Wallichii, 4. DC. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 2. xvi. 83, t. 5, and Prodr. 
viii. 91. Ardisia hymenandra, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey § Wall. 
ii. 282, and Pl. As, Rar. ii. 57, t. 175, and Cat. 2266. 
Kuasia Mrs.; Wallich; Mahadeo, alt. 3000 ft., Griffith, Upper Assam; Griffith 
(Kew Distrib. n. 3596). Cacuar; Gopal Teela, Keenan. 
Stem 2-4 ft., erect, stout, usually simple. Leaves 10 by 4 in. (or in Griffith's. 
example 24 by 10 in.), acute, scarcely acuminate, base attenuate, sometimes rounded 
or cordate, glabrous or nearly so, primary nerves slender nearly at right angles to the 
midrib, gland-dots more or less prominent; petiole scarcely I in. Lateral floral 
branches (peduncles) 1-3 in., stout, flattened ; bracts 44 by 3 in., altogether leaf-like, 
usually 3. Umbel usually compound of one subcentral sessile and two lateral 
peduneled umbellules ; pedicels 3 in., very many, rusty-pubescent or ultimately nearly 
glabrous. Buds 4 by j, in. Calya-lobes } in., ovate. Corolla red. Berries } in. 
diam., globose, scarcely striated. l 
