Tab. 6357. 



AKDISIA Olivebi. 



Native of Oosta Rica. 



Nat. Ord. Myrsine.e. — Tribe Eumyrsinejb. 

 Genus Myrsine, Sivartz; (Benth. et Hook,/. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 645). 



Myrsine Oliveri; fruticosa, glaberrima, foliis decurvis breviter petiolatis oblan- 

 ceolatis acuminatis in petiolum longe angustatis obscure dentatis glandulis 

 immersis transverse oblongis creberrime notatis, corymbis in capitulum 

 amplum terminalem densiflorum subglobosum aggregatis, floribua roseis 

 pedicellatis \ poll, diametr., bracteis oblongis, calycis lobis ovatis obtusis y. 

 erosis, corollas lobis ovato-rotundatis subacutis, filamentis brevissimis hirtellis, 

 antheris ovato-lanceolatis apice 2-porosis. 



Ardisia Oliveri, Masters in Oard. Ohron. 1877, pars 2, p. 680. 



By far the handsomest species of the genus hitherto culti- 

 vated in England, introduced by M. Endress into Messrs. 

 Veitch's nursery, where it flowered for the first time in July, 

 1876. Dr. Masters, who has fully described it in the 

 ' Gardeners' Chronicle,' considers its anthers as opening by one 

 pore, but I find an evident septum at the orifice ; he further 

 states that the species is not referable to any of the sections 

 of the genus which I have established in the Genera Plan- 

 tarum, a remark which is founded on a misconception, as I have 

 established no sections of the genus, though I diligently 

 attempted to do so. In fact, Ardisia is one of the few very 

 large genera (it contains about 200 species) which is common 

 to all three continents, and in which I have in vain sought 

 for sectional characters. 



Desck. A robust green shrub, everywhere quite glabrous, 

 with bright green branches and foliage. Leaves shortly stoutly 

 petioled, refiexed, five to seven inches long, oblanceolate, 

 acuminate, narrowed into the petiole, obscurely toothed, many- 

 nerved, rather membranous. Midrib thick; glands exces- 

 sively numerous, linear-oblong, brown disposed transversely. 



al-ril 1st, lfc78. 



