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lata (ramuloruin duplo vel ultra minora), dense 
glanduloso -punctata, adpresse araneoso-canescentia. uapitiua 
3-4 in ramorum apicibus, in corymbum disposita, semiglobosa, 
5 mm. loDga, pedunculis inaequalibus, infimo ad 18 mm. longa ; 
involucri phylla late oblonga, obtusa, araneoso-villosa ; paleae 
oblongae, obtusae, araneosae. Flores ligulati, circiter 7-8 ; ligulae 
2-3 mm. longa e, 2 mm. latae, 3-dentatae, aureae ; corollae tubus 
basi paululo ultra ovarii apicem deorsum productus, infra medium 
tandem dilatatus, spongiosus, anguste bialatus. 
Asia Minor. Raised at Kew from seeds collected by Herr 
W. Siehe in Cilicia. 
404. Ardisia gigantifo'.: I ie] ; aHiiiis.l. odonto- 
phyllae, Wall., sed foliis multo majoribus in petiolum late decur- 
rentibus, inflorescentia ampliore ex umbellis longiuscule peduncu- 
latis composita, alabastris globosis 4 mm. diametro, antheris obtusis 
distincta. 
Caulis crassitie digiti, vix ultra 15 cm. alius, minutissime 
puberulus, vel glabratus. Folia inferiora circa 2-3 cm. distantia, 
superiora conferta, alterna, elliptica vel longo-elliptica, obtusa, basi 
in petiolum decurrentia, 30-35 cm. longa, 17-20 cm. lata, in mar- 
gine revoluto breviter pectinato-fimbriata, bullata, supra saturate 
viridia, lucida, tenuissime griseo-pubescentia, infra glabra, ner vis 
lateralibus utrinque circiter 12 uti venis infra prominentibus 
validis ; petiolus robustus semiteres, ad 6*5 cm. longus, ob lamina 
decurrente quasi alatus. Pankula longe-pedunculatii, 15 cm. 
longa, laxe ramosa, ex axilla folii admodum redacti e basi lata 
cordato-ovata lanceolati acuti undulati orta, tenuissime pubescens, 
cymis umbellit'ormibus, braeteis subulatis mimitis, pedicellis 
cernuis ad 18 mm. Ion-is ros.-is. Fhavs p.miain«-ri rosei. Calyx 
tenui^im. i I'llLo-u-! , , m .- >.-gmrntis rotundata-ovatis dex- 
trorsum convolutis 2 m. longis. GoroUa in alabastro -dobn-iii, 
dextrorsum convoluta, aperta semLdobnso-rwpulilurmis "dabm! 
vix 8 mm. diametro, basi breviter gam..pK;ii :l . s.-..-m«Mitis Voncavis 
late-ovatis obtusis. Stnminn libera ; iilam.Mita erassa, p.-rbivvia, 
imae corollae basi affixa ; antherae late oblom-ae ob'tusae ' J mm. 
longae, longimdiuali^r dehisc.mr.-s. Ommnn .'dobosum rufo- 
papilloSUPi • -rvl.w 
Ovula ci 
ignotus. 
iqon^L^ 1 ^- n C ^ V t t6t \ r by Me88rs - J ' Veitch & Sons (i: 
lyoi) from seeds collected by Mr. E. H. Wilson. 
'■'-, Lein., calyce minore rubente 
