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long, rusty- villous. Inflorescence a sessile or short-peduncled, more or 

 less rusty-villous, umbellate raceme at the end of the main branchlets 

 or at the ends of long-peduncled axillary 2-leaved branchlets ; bracts 

 ovate-lanceolate, -1 to -2 in. long, deciduous ; pedicels '3 to -4 in. long, 

 secund ; buds conical. Calyx-lohes pink, hnear-oblong or Ungulate, 

 obtuse or slightly acute, '25 to "3 in. long, -075 in. broad, glabrous to 

 thickly rusty-villous, apex often recurved, glandular lines and dots 

 scattered ; tube exceedingly short. Corolla-lohcs pale pink, ovate-acute 

 or -acuminate, -25 to '3 in. long, prominently dotted with round or 

 oblong glands, much twisted in bud ; tube short. Stamens shorter 

 than the petals, "2 in. long ; anthers ovate, acuminate, dehiscing by 

 wide pores in the upper half ; filaments very short. Ovary globose, 

 crowned by a slender "2 in. long style, the base of the style and top of 

 ovary minutely pubescent. Berry globose, '25 in. in diam., bright red, 

 sparingly pubescent. A. DC. Prod. VIII. 136; Wall. Cat. 2280a ; Miq. 

 PL Jungh. 191, Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 1017 ; Scheff. Myrs. 90 ; Kurz in Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii . 227 and For. FL II. 113 ; Clarke in Hook. 

 f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 525 var. excepted; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. V. 253. 

 A. vestita, Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 274 ; A. DC. 

 I.e. ; Miq. I.e. ; Mez Monog. Myrs. 141. A. mollis, Bl. Bijdr. 689. 

 A. tavoyana, A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVTI. 125. 



Penang : Maingay (K.D.) 1011 ; Biclley 9357 ; Curtis 1597. 

 Pebak : Scortechini 638 ; Wray 151, 862, 2967, 3149 ; King's Collector 

 1819, 3138, 6104, 6448, 7915, 10052. Pahang : Bidley 2176. 

 Selangor : Bidley 1558 ; Curtis. Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3588 ; 

 Hervey ; Bidley ; Cuming 2390. Singapore : Bidley, 2833, 2816. — 

 DiSTRiB. Burma, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and eastwards to Tonkin 

 and Hainan. 



Var. glabrata, Kurz I.e. Leaves, at least when full grown, glabrous. 

 Calyx glabrous or nearly so. Stapf in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, IV. 

 204. A. glabrata, Bl. Bijdr. 692; A. DC. Prod. VIIL 136; Miq. FL 

 Ind. Bat. II. 1022. 



Perak : Bidley 2899; Wray 2801, 3414; King's Collector 949, 4612, 

 6188, 6255, 7696 ; Scortechini 315. — Distrib. Java, Sumatra, 

 Borneo. 



Ridley's 5510 from Kedah seems to be a form of this with smaller leaves and 

 shorter calyx-lobes, but can hardly be separated as a second variety. 



34. Ardisia virens, Kurz For. Fl. II. 575 (1877), and Journ. As. 



Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. 226. A small glabrous shrub ; branchlets slender, 



pale, somewhat compressed and twisted. Leaves membranous, oblong 



or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, cuneate at base ; faintly 



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