Ardisia.] ixxxvm. MYRSINE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 527 



petiole - in. Peduncles 3-4 in. ; pedicels -J in. ; bracteoles ^ in., linear. Buds 

 l by in., glabrous. Calyx densely villous ; segments in., ovate. Berry not seen. 



33. A. reflexa, Wall. Cat. 2282; branchlets fulvous-pubescent, leaves 

 narrowly obovate-lanceolate acute at both ends sparingly pilose beneath or 

 glabrescent, peduncles short bearing simple dense minutely fulvous-pubescent 

 racemes. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 132. A. Amherstiana, A. DC. in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xvii. 120, and DC. I.e. 131 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. Ill, and in Jaurn. As. Soc. 

 1877, pt. ii. 225. 



PEGU and TENASSERIM ; Wallich, &c. 



Branchlets, corymbs, and innovations with numerous spreading exceedingly short 

 tawny hairs. Leaves membranous, 8 by 2^ in. (often smaller), acuminate, base 

 cuneate or rarely suddenly narrowed ; primary nerves numerous, slender, thinly pilose 

 beneath, especially near the midrib, or ultimately glabreseent ; petiole \^ in. 

 Peduncles 1-2 in., axillary from near the ends of the branches; pedicels -| in. ; 

 bracteoles caducous. Buds by in., scarcely acute. Calyx-segments in., round. 

 Berry in., globose, vertically striate. In Wallich's Herbarium the type sheet has 

 the leaves pilose beneath, the second sheet has them glabrous ; A. DC. made two 

 species of these. 



34. A. khasiana, Clarke; branchlets fulvous-woolly, leaves linear- 

 obovate glabrous, peduncles numerous axillary bearing simple lax few-flowered 

 glabrous umbels. Ardisia sp., n. 27, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. fy T. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 500-3000 ft., frequent; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3572), 

 H.f. 4- T., &o, 



Erect, 1-4 ft. ; branches very leafy upwards. Leaves 4 by -f in., broadest above 

 the middle, tapering at, both ends, primary nerves conspicuous beneath, acutely oblique 

 to the midrib, inarching; petiole -J in, often woolly. Peduncles 1 in., often one 

 from each of the crowded upper axils ; pedicels 1 in., usually 2-5 in each umbel. 

 Buds -5- by ^ in. Calyx-segments in., elliptic ; in fruit, orbicular, concave, 

 margins membranous. Berry % in., or more, depressed-globose, scarcely striate. 

 The flowers, berries, and habit are similar to those of A. humilis. 



VAR. Thomsoni ; leaves obovate-lanceolate. Ardisia sp. n. 30, Herb. Ind. Or. 

 H. f. $ T. Chittagong; H.f. $ T. Khasia Mts., alt. 3-4000 ft. ; Mousto and Nong 

 Klao, Clarke. Leaves 5 by If in. in the Chittagong examples, but connected with 

 A. khasiana type by intermediate forms. 



ft Plant wholly glabrous, the young parts sometimes puberulous or scaly. 

 | Leaves crenate or denticulate. 



35. A. membranacea, Wall. Cat. 2288; leaves broadly lanceolate 

 crenate membranous, peduncles axillary slender bearing simple small umbels, 

 corolla-segments obtuse or emarginate, filaments much longer than the small 

 round anthers. .A. DC. Prodr. viii. 134 (not of Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, 

 pt. ii. 224). Ardisia sp. n. 36, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



KHASIA Mrs., alt. 2000 ft. ; Wallich, H. f. $ T., &c. CACHAB ; Shapoor, Keenan. 



Erect, 1-4 ft., subsimple, succulent. Leaves ^ by 2 in., acute at both ends, 

 nerves prominent, gland-dotted all over ; petiole f in. Peduncles 1-2 in. ; pedicels 

 \-% in. ; bracteoles 0. Calyx-segments ^ in., obtuse. Buds in., obtuse. Stamens 

 inserted close to the base of the corolla-segments, free from each other; filaments 

 linear, flattened, slightly wider upwards ; anthers small, round, opening by a longi- 

 tudinal slit. Ovary obovate-oblong, substipitate ; style cylindric, short. Berry j in. 

 diam. and upwards, globose, black, not vertically striate. Seed large, very hard at 

 least when dry, altogether of Ardisia. This is the type of a new genus nearly allied 

 to Amblyanthus, with which the habit, leaves, inflorescence, and corolla closely agree ; 

 the free stamens with long filaments, and the pistil are unlike Amblyanthus, and 

 indeed all other ludian Ardisiads. 



