L.VXVI, MYESTNACE.E. 87 



fig. 20 F-K. Ardisi'i JiumiUs, A. DC. iu Trans. Liiin. Soe. v. 17 (1837) 

 p. 118 {not of A'ahl) ; AVi.t^^lat, Icon. t. 1212 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 137 ; C. B. 

 Clarke, in Hook. f. PI. B. I. \. 3, p. 529 (exclud. some syn.) ; Talb. 

 Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 204 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. JS^at. v. 12 (1898) 

 p. 163; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 290. A. eUiptica, Bedd. 

 For. Man. iu Plor. Sylvat. p. cxxxviii {not of Thnnb.). — Flowers : Apr.- 

 June. Verx. Dlkna; Bwjdi. 



KoNKAN : common on tlie Ghats to the ^<i\\ih, Dalzcll cf- Gibson; Amboli Ghdt, 

 Cooke]; Goa districts, DaheU] S. M. Country: Ca&tlerock, lihival Kanaka: 

 erergreen forests, usually on tho banks of streams, common, Talbot ; Tinai (N. Kanara), 

 lUtchiel; Waguli, Ritchie'. — Distuib. TLiroughout India, China, Malaya. 



Koie. — A. De CandoUe (Ti-ans. Linn. Soc. 1. c.) makes this conspecific with Ardisia 

 humilif, Vahl. Vahl, in his description (Symb. v. 3, p. 40), gives salt-nmrshes in 

 Siavn, Malacca, and Ceylon as the habitat of A. humiiis, and further describes the 

 inflorescence as being terminal in compound i-aoemes, with a corolla-tube almost as 

 long as the calyx. A. solanacca, Roxb., is common throughout India, with flowers in 

 axillary corymbs and a rery short corolla-tube (Mez, in Engl. Pflanzenreich, t. 4, 

 p. 128, fig. 20). Beddome who, while i-ecognizing the identity of the plant with 

 A. nolanacea, Roxb., has adopted Thunberg's name A. elliptica (Bedd. For. Man. 

 p. cxxxviii), is quite clear as to the existence of A. hionilis as a sepai'ate species. In 

 For. Man. p. cxx\ix he says that A. humiiis is an undershrub found iu the Madras 

 Presidency and Ceylon. It seems therefore justifiable to regard the large shrub or 

 small tree with flowers in axillary corymbs, which is common throughout India, as 

 A. solanacea, Eoxb., and the small shrub, with flowers in termiral panicles, which is 

 found near the sea-coast in Madras and Ceylon, as A. humiiis, Vahl. 



2. Ardisia parviflora, Talbot, Trees ^' Shrubs, Bomb. ed. 2 (1902) 

 p. 204. A small, erect, branched shrub. Leaves coriaceous, 3-4| by 

 i-l| in., obovate, acute, distantly creuate, pellucido-punctate, base 

 cuneate ; petioles | in. long. Flowers small, ^-| in. across, in simple 

 ])edunculate axillary or terminal umbels about g as long as the leaves. 

 Corolla small, white, not pink nor spotted. Fruit size ot a pea, globose, 

 not striate, red when ripe. — Flowers in the rainy season. 



Kanaka: in the evergreen scrub jungles near the coast in the Karwar subdivisioa 

 of N. Kanara, TalW. 



I have seen no specimens of this plant ; there are none in Kerb. Kew. But that 

 Mr. Talbot describes the leaves as creii;ite and the corolla as white without spots, it 

 might be the true Ardisia humiiis of Vahl. 



o. .ffiGICERAS, Ga>rtn. 



Maritime shrubs or small trees ; branches cylindric. Leaves alter- 

 nate, quite entire, glabrous. Flowers large for the Order, white, pedi- 

 cellate, in terminal leaf-o]iposed or axillary sessile or subsessile (rarely 

 shortly pedunculate) umbels; brads 0. Flowers hermaphrodite, 5- 

 merous. Calvx 5-partite ; segments obliquely imbricate, twisted towards 

 the right in bud. Stamens 5, on the corolla-lube; anthers versatile, 

 attached at the middle or a little below the middle of the back, dehiscing 

 longitudinally, cells transversely septate. Cvary glabrous, fusiform, 

 narrowed into a slender style; ovules many, immersed in a globose 

 placenta ; stigma punctiform. Fruit cylindric, curved, acute, coriaceous, 

 l-seeded,at length dehiscing longitudinally. Seed conform to the fruit, 

 elongate, erect, germinatuig within the pericarp; albumen 0; embryo 

 cylindric curved, thick ; cotyledons short ; radicle short, inferior. — 

 DisTiiiB. Muddy sea-coasts and saltwater creeks of Tropical Asia and 

 Australia, growing along with the mangroves: species 2 according to 



