Ardisia, . PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, - 581 - 
clear, greén: bark. . Leaves crowded about the ends of the 
branchlets, sub-sessile, from lanceolar to.cuneate-oblong, ra-. 
ther obtuse, entire, smooth, from six to twelve inches long, and 
from three to five broad. Panicles terminal, very large, oval ; 
composed of numerous, patent, compound branches, all are 
round, smooth and» green, . Flowers very numerous, pretty - 
large, rose-coloured, Bracies oblong. Calyx the border. di-. 
_ vided into five broad-ovate segments, Corol sub-rotate; seg- 
ments of the border ovate... Filaments five, short, inserted 
_ into the base of the corol. Anthers sagittate, united into.a. 
cone, Germ ovate, one-celled, containing one ovulum attached 
to the bottom of the cell... Styde longer than the stamina, 
“een simple. 
3. A. colonaten R. gate, 
Shrubby. Leaves linear-lanceolar, entire; wail: veins 
- hearly diverging. Panicles. terminal, (large and. high vt 
coloured,) composed of.a Pt _decompound, expanding 
branches, wer e 
- OUmur-kulli, the saiacnion name at Silhet; where the iad 
is indigenous, and. one of the most desirable species of the | 
genus I have-yet met with. It is in flower and seed the ar 
est part of the year. , 
Trunk erect, with numerous, smooth, expanding, enidlies : 
and: branchlets ; general height, in its native soil, about twelve 
feet... Leaves alternate, short-petioled, linear-lanceolar, en- 
tire; acute, veins parallel, and nearly diverging from the rib,’ 
about six or seven inches long, and about two broad. Floral 
leaves minute, Panicles terminal, solitary, very large ; com- 
posed ofseveral large, compound and decompound br 
all of which with: their| sub-divisions are. smooth, aud: ion a 
pretty deep, bright red colour. Bractes. lanceolate, Calyx,” 
corol, &c, as in the family. Berries somewhat oblate, smooth, - 
succulent, red, size ofa pea. Seed solitary, of adeep yellow 
in the base. Perisperm conform to the seed, very hard, some‘ 
small rust-coloured specks on the surface, which in some 
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