Ardisia.] LXXXVIII. MYRSJNE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 525 



rarely 2, lateral secondary umbels, always supported by a leaf (Roxburgh). Suds 

 in., ovate, acute. Flowers rose or white, often spotted. Calyx-lobes (in fruit) i in., 

 ovat. 



VAR. artgtista ; leaves narrowly lanceolate, flowering pedicels 1 in. divaricate, 

 buds very obtuse, corolla- segments broad. Malacca; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3584). 

 Leaves 3 by in., tapering at both ends, primary nerves carried almost undivided 

 to the obscure crenatures, whole surface gland-dotted. Buds ^ in. 



26. A . KLurzii, Clarke ; glabrous, leaves obovate-lanceolate entire reti- 

 culated beneath, calyx- segments small obtuse. A. polycephala, var. acuminata, 

 Kurz For. FL ii. 110, and in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 225. 



PEGTJ and MARTABAN ; in the tropical forests, Kurz. 



Leaves 8 by 2^ in., shortly acuminate, cuneate at the base ; primary nerves beneath 

 prominently inarching at some distance from the margin, secondary nerves distinctly 

 reticulated ; petioles f in. Umbel (very young) compounded of 3 umbellules ; 

 bracts ^ in., elliptic, deciduous. Kurz has observed that this is perhaps distinct 

 from A. polycephala. 



27. A. villosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 274 ; innovations 

 rusty-villous, leaves lanceolate, umbels rusty-villous, calyx-segments \ in. 

 linear-lanceolate. Wall Cat. 2280; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 136; Scheff. Myrsin. 

 90; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 113, and in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 227. A. 

 vestita, Wall, in Roxb. I. c. in note ; A. DC. I. c. A. mollis, Blume Bijd. 689. 

 A. glabrata, Blume Bijd. 692; A. DC. I.e. A. Tavoyana, A. DC. in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xvii. 125. 



From MEBGUI to MALACCA and PENANG, frequent. DISTRIB. Malaya. 



A small shrub. Leaves 6-8 by f-2 in., narrowed at both ends, sparingly crenate 

 or nearly entire, more or less rusty-villous on the lower or on both surfaces ; petiole 

 ^ in. Umbels simple, or several together, very shortly peduncled ; bracts -| in., 

 elliptic; pedicels - in., patently villous. Calyx subcorolloid, whitish ; segments 

 villous without, within glabrous or (in the very hairy forms) hairy. Corolla small, 

 hardly so long as the calyx. Berries ^ in., globose, shorter than the sepals. A some- 

 what variable, though easily recognised species ; leaves very broadly lanceolate in 

 some of Griffith's Mergiii specimens, linear-lanceolate in Maingay's Malacca ones ; 

 often nearly glabrous (in age) except the midrib beneath ; more frequently villous 

 beneath ; in the form vestita, clothed with long fulvous hairs also above. 



VAB. ? obtusa; leaves obovate-oblong subobtuse, umbels in short shortly- 

 peduncled corymbs. Shevagherry Hills, South Deccan Peninsula, Wight. Lateral 

 branches divaricate below the summit of the main branch, leafy upwards ; terminated 

 by the corymb. Peduncle J in. ; corymb repeatedly dichotomous ; rusty-pubescent ; 

 pedicels |-f in. Calyx-segments in., ovate- lanceolate. Perhaps a distinct species, 

 but the solitary example in Herb. Wight is without flowers; it is very like Hymen- 

 andra Wallichii, but the calyx-teeth are too large for that. 



**** Umbels peduncled or panicled, axillary, the lower (at least} always 

 peduncled without leaves or leaf-like bracts at the apex of the peduncles. 



t Plant not wholly glabrous, branchlets at least hairy or pubescent. 

 J Leaves serrate or crenate. 



28. A. odontophylla, Wall. Cat. 2279 (not of Lindl.) ; branchlets 

 upwards rusty-villous, leaves long-petioled elliptic sharply finely serrate villous 

 at least on the midrib beneath, peduncles (some of them) remote from the apex 

 of the branch ascending. A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 125, t. 6, and 

 Prodr. viii. 135. 



KHASIA and JAINTBA MTS., alt. 1-4000 ft., frequent; Wallich, H. f. $ 71, &c. 

 PATXOYE MTS., S.E. of ASSAM ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3566). CACHAR; Keenan. 



