LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
Vol. H. Manila, P. l., November 7, 1908. Art. 22. 
SIX NEW MYRSINACEAE 
BY 
A. D. E. ELMER. 
od 
Ardisia punctata Eim. n. sp. 
Shrub, 3 m. high; branches divaricate, crowded toward 
the top of the stem. Leaves flat, submembranous, similarly 
green and punctate on both sides, elliptic, glabrous, averag- 
ing 1 dm. long, 5 em. wide across the middle, the entire 
margins minutely involute, at least in the dry state, ends 
equally acute; petiole stout, caniculate on the upper side, 
glabrous, from 5 to 10 mm. long; midnerve prominent, the 
lateral ones divaricate, rather fine, visible from both sides, 
the larger ones frequently alternating with smaller ones, ap- 
proximately 13 pairs, united a few mm. below the margin, 
the reticulations quite evident from both sides. Inflorescence 
mostly terminal, paniculate, at most 1 dm. long, the divar- 
icate branches chiefly above the middle, glabrous; pedicels 
thickened toward the distal end, glandular in the young state, 
from 7 to 10 mm. long; calyx segments 5, united at the 
base, glabrous, glandularly dotted, rigid and persistent, margins - 
obscurely fimbriate, triangularly acute, nearly 1.5 mm. long; 
petals 4 mm. long, pale white or pinkish, imbricate and in. 
the bud state distinctly twisted, falsely united at the very 
base, glabrous, glandular, the back ridged, the apex sharply 
