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filiform -2 in. long style. Fruit a globose berry, with a conical top 

 and the remains of the style, glabrous, striate with linear-oblong 

 prominent glands. 



Pekak: Wray 1590. Selangoe : Ciirtis 3750, at 3,000 to 4,000 

 feet. 



5. Ardisia, Swartz. 



Small trees, shrubs or semi-herbaceous undershrubs, evergreen, 

 generally all parts with pellucid glands which often dry black. Leaves 

 sessile or petiolate, membranous to coriaceous, entire crenate or 

 serrate. Floivers regular, pedicellate, hermaphrodite ; inflorescence 

 various. Calyx inferior, 4-6-lobed, the lobes free or overlapping to 

 the right; tube very open, as long as or shorter than the Jobes. Corolla 

 red white or spotted, often waxy in appearance, 4-6-lobed, the tube 

 often very short; the lobes overlapping to the right, often twisted. 

 Stamens equal in number to, and opposite to, the corolla-lobes, some- 

 times long and narrow, usually sagittate-lanceolate and apiculate, 

 sometimes very small, fixed to the corolla-tube by filaments usually 

 short and broad ; generally opening by slits, occasionally by terminal 

 pores, in A. littoraljs septate ; dehiscence always introrse. Ovary 

 globose, sometimes narrowed into the style, more often almost 

 depressed ; style usually filiform, rather long ; stigma punctiform ; 

 ovules few or many, immersed in a globose placenta. Fruit a globose, 

 rarely obovoid, berry, usually surmounted by the remains of the style, 

 fleshy, red or purple or black, often spotted ; endocarp crustaceous ; 

 1-seeded. Seed solitary, large, globose, hollowed at the base ; albumen 

 pitted or ruminate ; embryo cylindric hoiizontal. — Distrib. 200 to 250 

 species, all of tropical or sub-tropical regions in both worlds, scarce 

 in Africa. 



Leaves entire or crenate, never serrate : — 



Leaves entire, or if crenate without glands in the 

 crenatures : — 



Calyx-lobes not, or only slightly, overlapping to 

 the right, usually small : — 

 Inflorescence lateral :— 

 Inflorescence short-peduncled, shorter than 

 the leaves (I. Pimelandra) : — 



Leaves entire ; inflorescence on wood of 

 current and past years : — 



Leaves over 6 in. long ; nerves con- 

 spicuous : — • 



Leaves nearly glabrous beneath ; 



main-nerves less than 20 ..1. A. pachysandra. 



Leaves densely tomentose beneath ; 



main-nerves more than 20 .. 2. A. Teysmanniana. 



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