530 LXXXVIII. MYRSINE.S. (C. B. Clarke.) [Ardisia. 



peduncles axillary patent or suberect, pedicels stout, calyx-lobes in fruit 

 rounded concave with membranous margins. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 129 ; Scheff". 

 Myrsin. 73; Wight Ic. t. 1212; Dalz. $ Gibs. Boml. Fl. 137; Brand. For. 

 Fl 287; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 110, and in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 226. 

 A. solanacea, Roxb. Cor. PI. 27, t. 27, and Fl. Ind. i. 580 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1677 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 2283. A. umbellata, Roth Nov. Sp. 123 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 582, 

 and ed. Carey 8? Wall. ii. 273; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 531. A. litoralis, Andr. Bot. 

 Rep. x. 630 ; Kurz For. FL ii. 110, and in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 226. 

 A. Wightiana, Wall. Cat. 2330. A. polycephala, Wight HI. t. 145 (not of 

 Wall.). A. obovata, Blume Bijd. 688; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 132. A. salicifolia, 

 A. DC. I. c. 129. A. elliptica, Bedd. For. Man. 138, ? of Thunb. A. rostrata, 

 Hassk. in Flora 1868, p. 26 ?. Climacandra obovata and multiflora, Miq. PL 

 Jungh. i. 199, 200. 0. littoralis, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1871, pt. ii. 68. 

 Rheede Hort. Mai. v. t. 28. 



Throughout INDIA, alt. 0-5000 ft. ; from the HIMALAYA to CEYLON and SINGAPORE 

 (not in Western and Desert India). DISTRIB. Malaya, China. 



An erect, branched shrub. Leaves 6 by 2-2 in., coriaceous, nerves slender; 

 petiole in. Peduncles 1-2 in., near the apex of the branches or subremote there- 

 from, divaricate or ascending, sometimes recurved, stout, more or less compressed ; 

 umbels simple, sometimes compound, rarely lengthened into racemes ; pedicels -1 in. 

 Buds ^ by i in. Flowers pink. Calyx-lobes^-^ in., elliptic, obtuse ; in fruit enlarged, 

 orbicular, closely pressed to the berry. Berry ^ | in. wide, globose, slightly de- 

 pressed, hardly striate. Beddome proposes to take up Thunberg's name, A. elliptica, 

 for this plant as being the oldest ; but the description of A. elliptica (see DC. Prodr. 

 viii. 138) is so curt that there can be no certainty that it is A. humilis. 



VAR. arborescens, Wall. Cat. 2289 (sp.) ; arborescent, leaves large, peduncles long 

 rery stout, inflorescence often compound. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 131. Ava; Wallich. 

 Wallich's type specimen, however, in no wise differs from some Bengal A. humilis^ 

 which sometimes attains 25 feet, and has longer leaves and peduncles than in the 

 common shrubby state. 



6. FX1KEX.ANDXIA, A. DC. 



Flowers in small scattered axillary rusty sessile umbels, racemes or 

 corymbs, otherwise as Ardisia. Species 10 ; extending from Khasia to Java. 



The last section of Ardisia only differs from Pimelandra in having the lateral 

 inflorescence peduncled. A. DC. depended on the berry being oblong (not globose) as 

 the main character of Pimelandra ; this character A. DC. took from Wallich. Such 

 obovate- oblong one-sided fruits, with the style-base lateral, are found not rarely both 

 in P. Wallichii and eugenicefolia, but are all seedless, and probably due to some insect 

 injury. The perfect fruit in these and all species of Pimelandra is globose, exactly 

 as in Ardisia. 



1. P. eug-eniae folia, Hook. f. in Gen. PI. ii. 647; leaves lanceolate- 

 oblong caudate-acuminate crenate. nearly glabrous prominently gland-dotted 

 beneath, calyx-lobes minute in fruit. Ardisia eugeniaefolia, Wall. Cat. 2276 ; 

 A. DC. Prodr. viii. 130. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 2-4000 ft., frequent; Wallich, H.f. $ T., &c. 



A shrub, 3-6 ft. ; stem erect ; branches horizontal, tips rusty-pubescent, with com- 

 planate foliage. Leaves 10 by 2^ in. in Hooker's examples (usually one- third smaller), 

 base cuneate or rhomboid, glabrous or scarcely villous on the midrib beneath, primary 

 nerves prominent, inarching; petiole i in., often rusty-pubescent. Inflorescence scarcely 

 1 in. long, usually corymbose, sometimes subsimply racemose, rusty-pubescent ; bracts 

 inconspicuous or caducous. Buds in. Flowers altogether of Ardisia, but very 

 small. Calyx-lobes - in. at fruit-time, ovate, subacute, finally deflexed. Berry i in. 

 diam., globose, red, altogether (as is the seed) that of Ardisia. Some of Hooker's 

 specimens bear as many as 45 fruits on each branch, everyone being obovate-oblong 



