Aedisia.] MYHSISACE&. 9 



2. E. villosa, Wall in Roxb. Fl. Ind. (ed. Carey $ Wall.) ii, 2S9 ; 

 IV ill. Cat. 2313; Mr: in Engl. Plamenreich iv, 320. E. rob us; a, C. B. 

 ■Clarke in F. B. I. Hi, 515 (not of Roxb.). 



Branches rather thick, densely rusty-viUo is, the y >un?e.* oies spoUel 

 with minute pale lanticals. Leaois 4*5 in. long, obavits or oboviv.e- 

 elliptic, obtuse or shortly acuminate, acute at the bas;, entire, carti- 

 laginous, upper sirface glabresc3nt, canasemt-touentose an 1 

 minutely punctate benaath, lnirgins ciliate ; petiole abjut i in. long, 

 rouud, villous. Racmrs shortly paduncled, longer than the leaves, 

 usually in fascicles of 2-3, cylindric, many-fl >wared, rasty-villous, 

 pedicels about as long as the caducous filiforji bracts. Flowers di- 

 merous, small, whitish, shortly peiicelled. Sepals lanceolate, acute, 

 villous on the back and margins, punctata. Petals narrowly lanceolate, 

 acute, punctate, glabrous outside, distinctly papillose inside. 



Dehra Dun (Gamble) ; Kheri district in N. Oudh (Dutbie's collectors). 

 Distrib. : Bengal, on the Rajmahal Hills. This species differs from 

 E. robusta chiefly by the long fascicled racemes. It is also much more 

 hairy. 



2. ARDISIA, Swavtz; Fl. Brit, Ind. iii, 518. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves sessile or petioled. Flowers usually 

 2-sexual, white or rose-coloured, in axillary or terminal simple or 

 nipound umbels or corymbs; bracts small, usually deciduous or 0. 

 Calyx 5- (rarely 3- or 4-) lobed, persistent and often somewhat 

 enlarged in fruit ; lobes contorted or imbricate. Corolla usually 

 5-paitite, segments twisted to the right in bud. Stamens 6, attached 

 to base of corolla ; filaments free, usually very short ; anthers 

 sagittate, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate or apiculate, rarely obtuse, 

 dehiscing inwar-ls longitudinally. Ovary ovoid globose or pyra- 

 midal ; style cylindric, often much longer than the corolla-lobes, 

 stigma punctiform ; ovules few or many, immersed in a globose 

 placenta. Fruit globose or subglobose, u^nally apiculate with the 

 }i"isistent style. Seed solitary, globuse. — Species upwards of 235, 

 chiefly in Tiop. Asia. 



A. solanacea, Roxb. Cor. PI. i, 27, t. 27; Fl. Ind. t, 580 ; Mez. in Ennl. , 



Pjlanzenrtich iv, 132 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 86. A. humilis, A. DC. (not of 



Vahl) ; Royle III. 265; Brandis For. Fl. 287 ; Ind. Trees 418 (in part) ; 



F.B.I, iii, 529 (in part) ; Watt E.D.; Kanjilal For. Fl. 8ch. Circ. 211 ; 



Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 441 ; Prain Beng. PI. 645. 



A larsre much-branched shrub or small tree. Branches thick, glabrous 

 showing the scars of fallen leaves. Leaves scattered, obovate oblan- 

 ceolate or oblong-elliptic, tapering to an acuta base, shortly and 



