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wrinkled. Fruit a depressed, obscurely 5-angled berry, "2 in. in diam., 

 pericarp very smooth inside. 



Kedah : on Lankawi Island, Bidley 8313. 



8. Ardisia andamanica, Kurz For. Fl. II. 108 (1877) and in Journ, As. 

 Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. 225. A small or medium-sized evergreen shrub 

 reaching 15 feet high and 2 in. in diam. ; branches slender with reddish- 

 brown bark, striate when dry, branchlets glabrous. Leaves entire, mem- 

 branous ; oblong lanceolate, narrowly long acuminate at apex, cuneate 

 at base ; glabrous on both surfaces but with many scattered glandular 

 dots and occasional peltate scales; 3 to 6 in. long, -75 to 1 "75 in. broad; 

 midrib slender; main-nerves about 20 pairs, very thin and inconspicuous, 

 at about 60° with the midrib, at first straight then arching upwards 

 to and along the margin ; petiole "3 to "5 in, long, channelled above. 

 Inflorescence a loose terminal panicle 2 to 3 in. long, with few slender 

 umbel-like racemes on -3 to "5 in. long, squarrose peduncles; pedicels 

 slender, -3 in. ; bracteoles small, ovate, deciduous. Calyx-lobes acute, 

 triangular, -05 in. long, minutely ciliate at the edges, dotted with black 

 glands ; tube rather shorter than lobes. Corolla-lobes ovate, acute, 

 •15 in. long, glabrous, with inconspicuous nerves and few scattered 

 round or oblong glands. Stamens a little shorter than corolla-lobes; 

 anthers ovate, apiculate, '1 in. long, glabrous on the back or with few 

 black glands ; filaments -05 in. Ovary rounded, glabrous ; style filiform, 

 long exsert, '15 in. long. Berry round or slightly pyriform, smooth, 

 •3 in. in diam. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 521 ; Mez Monog. 

 Myrs. 110. Ardisia neriifolia, A. DC. Prod. VIII. 127 in part {not of 

 Wall.), Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. t. 8 {fig. only). 



Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3570 ; Hidlett 830 ; Stoliczka. Perak : 

 Bidley 9718 ; Wray 867, 943, 971, 1033 ; King's Collector 5692, 8064. 

 Johore: Bidley 3717. — Distrib. Andamans, Mergui. 



9. Ardisia tuberculata, Wall. Cat. 2274 (1829). A shrub, reaching 

 10 feet in height; branchlets smooth, stout, reddish, uppermost flattened, 

 glabrous. Leaves entire, coriaceous ; elliptic, bluntly acuminate at apex, 

 attenuate or rounded at the base ; glabrous and shining above, 

 covered beneath with rather deciduous peltate scales, dark when dry ; 

 3 to 6 in. long, 1 to 2 in. broad ; midrib prominent ; main-nerves obscure, 

 about 15 pairs, starting at an angle of about 75° from the midrib, then 

 arched upwards to and along the margin ; secondary nerves more slender, 

 reticulations obscure ; petiole '3 to '5 in. long, thick, rough, winged by 

 the decurrent margins of the blade. Liflorescence a lax, leafy, terminal ^ 

 tripinnate, 3 to 6 in. long, panicle; rachis flexuous, flattened, often 

 scaly; primary peduncles squarrose, '6 to 1 in. long, supported 

 by ovate acuminate leafy bracts ; secondary peduncles also squarrose, 



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