316 MR. H. N. RIDLEY ON THE FLORA OF THE 
Sandy places with the preceding, but much less frequent. А very pretty bush, distin- 
guished from V. malaccense by its very different-shaped flower, coriaceous leaves, which 
are often bright red, and the very long appendages to the stamens, which are as long as 
the whole of the rest of these organs. 
I cannot match it with any other Indian or Malayan species, nor have I seen it else- 
where. It is deliciously scented, and the berries, like those of the preceding, are very 
good and sweet. 
MYRSINEX. 
MSA RAMENTACEA, А. DC. 
Temerloh, in thickets. 
М. INDICA, Linn. 
Pulau Chengei, Tanjong Antan, Tahan River. 
In dense thickets. Fruits cream-colour, flowers white. 
I am not very well satisfied with my identification of these plants, What I take to be 
М. ramentacea, A. DC., and what has been so named by the authorities at Kew, is a far- 
climbing shrub (not a tree of 30 feet in height as described in the ‘ Flora of British India ’) 
with slender branches, and usually ovate lanceolate leaves. It is very liable to the 
attacks of some insect, which converts the inflorescence into a mossy-green mass of 
abortive branchlets, which is really much prettier than its small white flowers. It is 
an exceedingly common plant in Singapore. The other plant, which I suppose to be 
M. indica, Wall., is also, at least sometimes, half-scandent, but I have seen it also in the 
form of a small tree; the leaves are much larger and more elliptic, the inflorescence 
smaller. It is much less common. 
MYRSINE CAPITELLATA, Linn. 
Shores, Kwala Pahang. 
LanisrA POTHOINA, Lindl. 
Common in woods. Pekan, Tahan River. 
This plant is very variable in the form of leaves, but most of the forms to which names 
have been given are really states rather than varieties. Young plants have the leaves 
crenulate, very dark green in the centre, with a pink edge, but they soon lose this colouring 
and become entirely green and with an entire edge. Тһе flowers are not usually white, 
as described in ‘ Flora of British India,’ but pink, the berries scarlet. 
ARDISIA COLORATA, Roxb. 
A shrub, usually small and straggling (var. complanata), aa | small leaves. Inhabits 
thick woods. 
, Var. COMPLANATA. 
Pekan (Dr. Haviland). 
, Var. POLYNEURA. | 
Thickets. Tahan River. 
