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and Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 276. An evergreen small glabrous 

 shrub ; branchlets thick, sooaewhat fleshy, striate with faint lines 

 decurrent from the bases of the leaves ; leaf-buds small, conical. 

 Leaves chartaceo-coriaceous ; lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acute or 

 sub-obtuse at apex, acuminately narrowed at base ; margins cris- 

 pately crenate with glands in the crenatures, recurved ; glabrous on 

 both surfaces ; glandular dots scattered in the areoles of minor 

 nerves, sometimes prominent, often obscure ; 2 to 4 in. long, -75 

 to 1'5 in. broad ; midrib slender ; main-nerves 10 to 14 pairs, 

 irregular, slender, arching upwards and joining in an intramarginal 

 nerve close to the margin which passes through the crenature glands ; 

 secondary nerves similar but fainter, reticulations curved ; petiole 

 •2 in. long, narrowly winged by the crisped edges of the decurrent blade. 

 Inflorescence of short, sessile or shortly peduncled, panicled racemes, 

 springing from the branchlets just below the terminal pair of leaves ; 

 pedicels "2 to -4 in. long, slender, longer and thicker in fruit, generally 

 recurved; buds conical, -15 to "2 in. long; flowers 4- or 5-merous, waxy 

 pink or white. Calyx-lobes ovate, -05 to '1 in. long, scarious at the 

 edges, dotted with black glands in the middle ; tube very short. Corolla- 

 lobes rose-pink, ovate-oblong, bluntly acuminate, "2 in. long, oblique, 

 unequal, sparsely dotted with round or elongated glands, sometimes 

 papillose at the base within. Stamens shorter than corolla-lobes ; 

 anthers ovate-oblong, acute, with few glands on the back ; filaments 

 very short. Ovary ovoid, surmounted by a twisted subulate slender 

 style '15 in. long. Berry globose, "25 in. in diam., scarlet, succulent, 

 obscurely striate, crowned by the persistent style. Wall. Cat. 2262 ; 

 Bot. Mag. t. 1950 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 524 ; Koord. & 

 Val. Bijdr. VI. 190. A. glancMosa, Bl. Bijdr. 690 {not of Eoxb.). A. 

 crenulata, Lodd. Bot. Cat. t. 2 [not of Vent.). A. crispa, A. DC. in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 124 and Prod. VIII. 134 ; Scheff. Myrs. 72 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 1020 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. 

 226 and For. Fl. II. 113 ; Mez Monog. Myrs. 144, fig. 22. A. densa and 

 A. polysticta, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 575, 576. Bladhia crispa, 

 Thunb. Fl. Jap. 97; Kaempf. Ic. PI. Jap. t. 7. 



Kedah : Bidley 5517. Penang : Wallich 2262 ; Maincjay (K.D.) 

 1009 ; Phillips ; Curtis 337 ; Deschamps ; G. King ; J. Scott. Malacca : 

 Griffith (K.D.) 3583/1; Cuming 2254; Hullett 637; Derry 944. Perak : 

 Scortechini; Wray, 1257; King's Collector 1337, 4180, 4903, 7847 

 8706, 10566. Selangor : Bidley 10553. Pahang : Bidley 24 ; Havi- 

 land. JoHORE : Fox 11285. — Distrib. Assam, Burma, Sumatra, Java, 

 Borneo, and eastwards to South China and Japan. Eidley (Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. III. (1893) 317) says the berries are " sweet and eatable." 



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