Ardisia.'] LXXXVIII. MYRSINE^J. (C. B. Clarke.) 521 



Leaves entire or obscurely crenulate. 



9. A. ample xicaulis, Sedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 170, and Fl. Sylv. Anal. 

 PI. t. 18, fig. 3 ; leaves short-petioled oblong acuminate base rounded, panicle 

 simple or sparingly compound, pedicels umbelled minutely rusty. 



WTNAAD ; Tirrihoot Hills, alt. 4000 ft., and TRAVANCORB ; Beddome. 



A shrub. Leaves 5 by 1J in., broadest above the middle, acuminate, glabrous, 

 membranous, primary nerves inarching at a distance from the margin, prominently 

 dotted near the margin ; petiole ^-^ in. Panicle flowers and fruits as in A. zeylanica. 

 Though A. zeylanica has strongly toothed leaves narrowed to the petiole, it is, 

 perhaps, only a form of A. amplexicaitlis. 



10. A. diverging, Roxb. FL Ind. ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 275; leaves 

 elliptic or oblong, drying red-brown rhomboid or almost round at the base, panicle 

 subsimple minutely rusty. Wall. Cat. 2269; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 130. A. 

 punctata, Jack ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 275 (not of Lindl.). A. 

 punctulosa, Dietr. Syn. PL i. 615. 



PENANC* ; Jack, Maingay. DISTRIB. Moluccas. 



A small tree, 20 ft. ; branchlets slender, cylindric, much divided. Leaves 4^ by 

 l in., subobtusely acuminate, glabrous, primary nerves arched, prominently dotted 

 especially near the margin ; petiole i in. Panicles 3 by 2 in. ; bracts small or 

 deciduous ; pedicels -^ in., subumbelled. Buds % in., and as much broad. Calyx- 

 lobes i in., round. A. javanica (A. DC. Prod. viii. 130) only differs by having 

 the branchlets upwards and panicle more rusty-pubescent. 



11. A. G-ardneri, Clarke-, leaves elliptic or obovate-lanceolate narrowed 

 at both ends drying black, panicle minutely-rusty, pedicels umbelled. A. diver- 

 gens, Thwaites Enum. PL Zeyl. 174; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 130 partly. 



CEYLON, frequent ; Gardner, Thwaites, &c. 



Very near A. divergens and perhaps the Ceylon form of it. Leaves acute at the 

 base. Calyx-teeth ovate, subacute, rather larger than in A. divergens. Flowers alto- 

 gether as those of A. zeylanica (of which Thwaites reckons it a variety), and of 

 A. amplexicaulis. 



12. A. andamanica, Kurz For. FL ii. 108, and in Journ. As. Soc. 

 1877, pt. ii. 225 ; glabrous, leaves narrowly lanceolate base cuneate or rhom- 

 boid, panicles thin subsimple, pedicels racemed. A, neriifolia, A. DC. Prodr. 

 viii. 127 partly (not of Wall.). 



MALAY PENINSULA, from Mergui to Malacca, frequent ; ANDAMAN ISLANDS ; Griffith, 

 Kurz, &c. 



A shrub, 2-4 feet (Kurz'). Leaves 5 by 1-1^ in., acute, primary nerves not prominent, 

 arching near the margin or not at all, sparsely dotted; petiole in. Panicles 4 in., 

 often divaricate or depauperated ; bracts or deciduous ; pedicels |- in. Calyx- 

 lobes ^ in., round, glabrous. Corolla by in. This is not near A. oblonga, A. 

 DC. (as Kurz supposed), but is that form of A. neriifolia^ A. DC., which is said to have 

 terminal inflorescence, aud which in fact specifically differs from the North Bengal 

 A. neriifolia of Wallich. A. DC.'s figure ( Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. t. 8) represents A. 

 andamanica, while most of the description (" panicles lateral peduncles and pedicels 

 somewhat velvety ") can apply only to neriifolia. 



VAR. effusa ; leaves elliptic acuminate, panicle straggling, pedicels ~f in., buds 

 | by ^ in. Andamans ; Port Mouat, Kurz. Kurz has issued this unnamed, as though 

 he supposed it specifically different from his A. andamanica. 



13. A. tuberculata, Wall. Cat. 2274 ; leaves coriaceous elliptic narrowed 

 to both ends, panicles compound glabrous or rusty-scaly, flowers numerous 

 small. A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 119, and Prodr. viii. 130. A. chryso- 

 phylloides, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 574. 



