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ARDISIA ACUMINATA. ACUMINATED 
ARDISIA. 
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Claft and Order. 
PenTAnpDRia Monocynia. 
Generic Charaéter. 
Cal. 5-phyllus. Cor. hypocrateriformis : limbo reflexo. Anthere 
magne, erecta. Stigma fimplex. Drupa fupera, monofperma. 
Specific Charaiter and Synonyms. 
ARDISIA acuminata ; paniculis axillaribus terminalibufque, 
-foliis oblongis acuminatis bafi attenuatis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. 
p. 1062. Hort. Kew, edit. alt. 2. p. 4. 
ICACOREA guianenfis. Aublet Guian. 2. Suppl. p. 1. t. 368. 
Our plant does not agree very well with the charaéter taken 
from AvuBtet, the flowers being rather corymbofe than panicled. 
But as this author faw it in fruit only and not in flower, it is 
poflible that by the lengthening of the peduncle at the part from 
which the pedicles iffue, it may at that feafon put on more the 
appearance of apanicle. * 
Descr. <A forub, in our fpecimen, a foot and half or two 
feet high with green fmooth bark. Branches alternate, {preading. 
Leaves petiolated, alternate, oblong, narrowed at both extremi-_ 
ties, fomewhat undulate, fmooth on both fides, ribbed with 
numerous parallel veins, uniting near the margin. Peduncles 
axillary, not half the length of the leaf; bearing fimple or 
compound corymbs of flowers. Calyx minute, perfiflent, five- 
parted, acute, white, with ruft-coloured dots. Corolla faucer- 
fhaped, limb five-cleft, plain (not reflexed) white with rufly 
yellow dots fearcely vifible to the nakedeye. Svamens five : 
filaments inferted into the tube of the corolla, fhort, {pear- 
pointed: <Axthers connivent. Germen globular. Style ereét, 
longer than ftamens : Stigma acute. : 
Native of Guiana. Communicated by Meffrs, Loppices 
and Sons, flowering in July. 
