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ferrugineo-pubescentibus, quam petiolo paullo longioribus; flori- 

 bus parvis, sepalis leviter connatis; ovario ferrugineo-tomen- 

 toso. 



A tree about 5 m high, the branchlets and inflorescences, es- 

 pecially the latter, densely ferruginous-pubescent. Branches te- 

 rete, brown, the branchlets dark-brown, sometimes pubescent, 

 sometimes almost or entirely glabrous. Leaves oblong, charta- 

 ceous, entire, pale olivaceous-brownish, shining, 22 to 37 cm long, 

 8 to 10 cm wide, narrowed upward to the obscurely blunt-acumi- 

 nate apex, the base rather abruptly decurrent-acuminate, some- 

 times more or less rounded and then somewhat decurrent, the 

 lower surface prominently puncticulate with numerous small 

 glands ; primary lateral nerves about 16 on each side of the mid- 

 rib, prominent on the lower surface, curved, anastomosing, the 

 intermediate secondary nerves distinct; petioles 1.5 to 2 cm 

 long. Inflorescences axillary, corymoose-paniculate, 3 to 3.5 

 cm long, densely ferruginous-pubescent, branched from the base, 

 the lower branches up to 2 cm in length, the flowers numerous, 

 subumbellately arranged near the tips of the branchlets, their 

 pedicels stout, 2 to 2.3 mm long, the bracteoles linear, pubescent, 

 1.5 to 2 mm long. Buds globose, rounded. Sepals oblong-ovate, 

 obtuse, puncticulate, pubescent, margins obscurely ciliate, about 

 1.5 mm long, free nearly to the base. Corolla about 1.5 mm in 

 diameter in anthesis, the lobes elliptic-ovate, punctate, 2.5 mm 

 long, obtuse. Anthers about 1.8 mm long, apiculate, the con- 

 nective very obscurely punctate. Ovary globose, ferruginous- 

 pubescent ; style glabrous, 1.5 to 2 mm long. 



Amboina, Wae, Rel. Robins. 1875, November 29, 1913, in light forests, 

 altitude about 20 meters. 



A species closely allied to Ardisia ternatensis Scheff., differing, 

 however, in its longer and relatively narrower leaves, which are more 

 or less decurrent on the petioles, shorter petioles, and somewhat longer 

 inflorescences. 



CONANDRIUM Mez 



CONANDRIUM RHYNCHOCARPUM (Scheff.) Mez in Engl. Pflanzenreich 

 9 (1902) 156. 



Ardisia rhynchocarpa Scheff. Comm. Myrsin. Archip. Ind. (1867) 68. 



Amboina, Paso, Rel. Robins. 1882, October 29, 1913, along the seashore. 



A tree about 4 m high, with red-purple flowers. Mez's description was 

 apparently drawn up from immature specimens. The tips of the racemes 

 bear numerous, short-pedicelled, crowded buds, and the bracteoles are 

 early deciduous. The racemes are axillary, solitary, simple, up to 23 

 cm in length, and the pedicels of the lower flowers attain a length of about 

 2 cm. The nearly mature petals are about 6 mm long. The species is 

 known only from Amboina. 



