Ardma.] MyrsiuecB. 7 1 



oblong, obtuse pet. ; stam. 4, twice as long as pet. ; ov. with 3 

 ovules, style conical, berry f-J in., nearly globose, tipped with 

 stout persistent style, smooth, crimson. 



Montane zone 4000-6000 ft.; rather rare. Hantane ; Dimbula ; 

 Adam's Peak ; Rangala ; Haputale ; Lagalla. Fl. April ; greenish-white. 

 Also in S. India and Java. 



4. ARDZSZA, Swartz. 



Shrubs, 1. alt., glabrous; fl. in racemes or panicles, bi- 

 sexual, buds pointed; cal. persistent, segm. 5; cor.-lobes 5, 

 twisted in aestivation; stam. 5, inserted at base of cor.; ov. 

 globose, I -celled, ovules few on large central placenta, style 

 simple; fruit a globose berry, with a solitary, large, globose 

 seed, embryo horizontal in copious ruminated endosperm. — 

 Sp. 200 ; 45 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Inflorescence terminal, paniculate. 



L. oblong-lanceolate ; panicle large . . .1. A. MiSSIONlS. 

 L. oval ; panicle small. 



L. thick, lat. veins oblique 2. A. HUMILIS. 



L. thin, lat. veins horizontal . . , . 3. A. Gardneri. 

 Inflorescence axillary, racemose. 

 Berries red. 



Fl. large ; a dwarf undershrub . . . .4. A. MOONII. 



Fl. small ; a straggling shrub . . . . 5. A. pauciflora. 

 Berries dark purple 6. A. ELLIPTICA. 



I. A. IHissionis, Wall. Cat. n. 6524 (1828). 



A. longifolia., Moon Cat. 16 (?) A. paniculata^ Thw. Enum. 173 

 (? Roxb.). A. courtallejisis., Thw. Enum. 423 (.'' Wight). DC. Prod. viii. 

 130. C. P. 1802. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 519. 



A shrub, 4-6 ft. high, branchlets stout, cylindrical, glabrous ; 

 1. crowded at end of the year's growth, subsessile, 5-6 in., 

 narrowly oblong-lanceolate, tapering to both ends, subacute 

 or obtuse at apex, faintly crenate, glabrous, rather thick, paler 

 beneath; fl. on rather long, slender, spreading or drooping 

 ped., panicle terminal, 6-8 in., pyramidal, with a few de- 

 ciduous bracts at the base, buds sharply pointed; cal.-segm. 

 ovate, acute; cor.-lobes very acuminate, reflexed; berry fully 

 \ in., red. 



Moist region, principally in the lower montane zone ; common. Fl. 

 April ; pale pink. 



Endemic. 



A. courtallensis, Wight, let. 1215, of S. India, is scarcely distinguish- 

 able as a species; neither is A. paniculata, Roxb. of Assam, Khasia, &c., 

 figured in 13ot. Mag. t. 2364. 



