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14 to 20 pairs, irregular, -4 to -5 in. apart, starting at an angle of about 

 60°, then slightly arching to and along the margin ; petiole '4 to -6 in. 

 long, pubescent, wrinkled, slightly channelled above. Inflorescence 

 of small, axillary, sessile or shortly peduncled, umbels or corymbs ; 

 peduncles -1 in. long, flowers 6 to 8 ; pedicels slender, pubescent, striate, 

 •4 in. long; bracts minute, subulate, densely pubescent, deciduous. 

 Calyx-lobes ovate, rounded, pubescent, -2 in. long, slightly overlapping 

 to the right, ciliate, gland-dotted especially near the tip. Corolla-lobes 

 boat-shaped, broadly ovate, shortly acuminate, '3 in. long, glabrous, 

 white, faintly nerved, dots very few, revolute in flower; tube short. 

 Stamens a little shorter than corolla-lobes ; anthers ovate, cuspidate- 

 acuminate, much gland-dotted and warted at the back on the connective ; 

 filaments thick. Ovary rounded, glabrous, style subulate, as long as 

 the anthers. Berry '2 to "4 in. in diam., globose, glabrous, pale. 

 Myrsine pachysandra, Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 

 297; Wall. Cat. 2284; A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 111. 

 Pimclandra Wallichii, A. DC. in x\nn. Sc. Nat. 2. XVI. 88; Prod. 

 VIII. 106 ; Deless. Ic. Sel. V. 14. t. 31 ; Scheff. Myrs. 94 ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. II. 1029 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 531. 



Penang: Wallich 2284; Porter; Curtis 1156, 3164, 3181, 3787. 

 Malacca : Oriffith (K.D.) 3597 ; Maingay (K.D.) 1006. Perak : Wray 

 1358 ; King's Collector 5995, 7194.— Distrib. Borneo (?). 



2. Ardisia Teysmanniana, Scheff. in Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. XXXI. 

 368 and in Flora 253 (1870). A large shrub or small tree ; branchlets 

 brown, with wavy longitudinal lines passing downwards from the sides 

 of the bases of the petioles, lenticels numerous, innovations densely 

 ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves entire, chartaceous ; oblong or slightly 

 obovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, alternate 

 and sometimes abruptly rounded at base ; glabrous above, densely ferru- 

 ginous-tomentose beneath ; glands very numerous, small, evenly dis- 

 tributed over the whole under surface ; 6 to 11 in. long, 1-5 to 

 3 in. broad; midrib thick, prominent beneath; main-nerves 25 to 30 

 pairs, -3 to -4 in. apart, starting at an angle of 60°, at first straight, 

 then curving to meet in the margin in a looped nerve, raised beneath 

 as are the few secondary nerves and the many oblique reticulations ; 

 petiole very thick, -5 to "6 in. long, usually bordered by the decurrent 

 margins of the blade which are again revolute. Inflorescence of 

 axillary pedunculate umbels or corymbs ; peduncles in flower -1 to 

 •2 in. long, in fruit sometimes up to '5 in., 4-5-flowered ; pedicels 

 slender, -4 in. long, densely rusty -pubescent, striate ; bracteoles 

 linear-subulate, deciduous. Calyx-lobes ovate, rounded, pubescent, 

 •1 in. long, ciliate. Corolla-lobes ovate-acuminate, "2 in. long, softly 

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