Ardisia. pentandria monogynia. 581 



clear, green 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. Bractes 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. Style longer than the stamina. 

 Stigma simple. 



3. A. colorata. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves linenr-lanceolar, entire, smooth ; veins 

 nearly diverging. Panicles terminal, (large and highly 

 coloured,) composed of a few, decompound, expanding 

 branches. 



Z7mttr-kttlli,the vernacular name at Sillier, where the shrub 

 is indigenous, and one of the most desirable species of the 

 genus I have yet met with. It is in flower and seed the great- 

 est part of the year. 



Trunk erect, with numerous, smooth, expanding branches 

 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 of several large, compound and decompound branches ; 

 all of which with their sub-divisions are smooth, and of a 

 pretty deep, bright red colour. Bractes lanceolate. Calyx, 

 corol, &c. as in the family. Berries somewhat oblate, smooth, 

 succulent, red, size of a pea. Seed solitary, of a deep 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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