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caducous bracteoles ; flowers 8 to 12 ; pedicels slender below, flattened 

 above, twisted and curved, "3 to -4 in, long ; buds ovoid. Calyx-lobes 

 ovate, acute, '1 in. long, prominently black-gland-dotted. Corolla-lobes 

 waxy, reddish or purple, ovate, -15 to -2 in. long, sparsely gland-dotted. 

 Stamens nearly as long as corolla-lobes ; filaments very short, thick ; 

 anthers ovate, acute, connective much gland-dotted on back. Ovary 

 rounded ; style shott, slender, glabrous. Berry globose, red, rugose, 

 •3 in. in diam., prominently gland-dotted when dry. 



Pbrak : Wray 438, 2795, 3280, 4051 ; Scortechini 418 ; King's 

 Collector 1888, 3631, 6938, 7514, in dense jungle on rich soil, both in 

 low-level localities and up to 4,000 feet in the mountains ; one specimen, 

 rather more slender, thinner and more glabrous, from the top of rocks 

 (K.C. 7514). 



K.C. No. 6938 from mountains at 3,000 to 4,000 feet, has the main-nerves nearly at 

 right angles to the midrib, while other specimens have it at 60° or even 45° ; these are, 

 hoAvever, intermediate, and all that can be said is that the character is a variable one. 

 The species seems to resemble the A. macrocarpa, Wall., of Northern India, in its habit 

 of growth. 



36. Ardisia minor. King & Gamble, n. sp. Apparently a short 

 (12 to 18 in. high) treelet or undershrub ; lower part of stem with side 

 rootlets ; stem -2 to '25 in. thick, rusty-pubescent, dark brown. Leaves 

 coriaceous ; elliptic, long caudate-acuminate at apex, attenuate or 

 cuneate at base often unequally ; margins recurved, very shallowly 

 crenate, the crenatures with large prominent glands ; glabrous on both 

 surfaces but somewhat scaly ; 5 to 7 in. long, 2 to 2*5 in. broad ; midrib 

 slender ; main-nerves about 15 pairs, starting at an angle of about 50° 

 with the midrib, and thence straight to the margin where they or their 

 branches end in the crenature glands ; secondary nerves similar to the 

 main-nerves, reticulations oblique, all raised beneath when dry ; petiole 

 thick, rugose, rusty-pubescent, "7 to 1 in. long, winged by the decurrent 

 margins of the blade. Inflorescence of very short, rusty-pubescent, 

 umbellate racemes of about 5 to 6 flowers from the axils of the upper- 

 most leaves ; peduncle scarcely "2 in. long, thick ; racemes about "2 in. 

 long ; bracteoles many, ovate or oblong, recurved ; pedicels thick, 

 •3 to '4 in. long, flattened, recurved. Calyx-lobes ovate acute, -1 to 

 •15 in. broad, glabrous, prominently gland-dotted, nearly free. Corolla- 

 lobes ovate acute, -2 in. long, glabrous, dotted prominently with large 

 black glands. Stamens shorter than corolla-lobes ; filaments very 

 short, thick ; anthers oblong acuminate, the connective gland-dotted 

 at the back, -1 in. long. Ovary rounded, glabrous ; style "1 in. long, 

 subulate. Berry not known. 

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