AEDISIA.] MYRSINAGEJB. $ 



2. E. villoaa, Wall, in Roxb. FL I/id. (ed. Carey $ Wall.) ii, 239 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 2313; Mez in Engl. Planzenreich iv, 320. E. robusia, C. B. 

 Clarke in, F. B. I. Hi, 515 (not of Roxb.). 



Branches rather thick, densely rusbyviUo is, the jmn^d: ones spotted 

 with minute pale laaticels. Leavss 4-5 in. long, obovtta or obovate- 

 elliptic, obtuse or shortly asu in iaate, acute at the has?, entire, carti- 

 laginous, upper surface glabrescant, can3sc3nt-to'neatose anl 

 minutely punstate benaabh, margins oiliate ; petiole about in. long, 

 rouad, villous. Racemes shortly peduncled, longer than the leaves, 

 usually in fascicles of 2-3, cylindric, many-fl )wared, rusty -villous, 

 pedicels about as long as the caducous filiform bracts. Flowers 4- 

 merous, small, whitish, shortly pedicelled. Sepals lanceolate, acute, 

 villous on the back and margins, punctate. Petals narrowly lanceolate, 

 acute, punctate, glabrous outside, distinctly papillose inside. 



Dehra Dun (Gamble) ; Kheri district in N. Oudh (Duthie's collectors). 

 DISTRIB. : Bengal, on the Rajmahal Hills. This species differs from 

 E. robusta chiefly by the long fascicled racemes. It is also much more 

 hairy. 



2. ARDISIA, Swarta ; Fl. Brit, Ind. iii, 518. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves sessile or petioled. Flowers usually 

 2-sexual, white or rose* coloured, in axillary or terminal simple or 

 compound umbels or corymbs; bracts small, usually deciduous or 0. 

 Calyx 5- (rarely 3- or 4-) lobed, persistent and often somewhat 

 enlarged in fruit ; lobes contorted or imbricate. Corolla usually 

 5 -partite, segments twisted to the right in bud. Stamens 6, attached 

 to base of corolla ; filaments free, usually very short ; anthers 

 sagittate, ovate -lanceolate, acuminate or apiculate, rarely obtuse, 

 dehiscing inwards longitudinally. Ovary ovoid globose or pyra- 

 midal ; style cylindric, often much longer than the corolla-lobes, 

 stigma punctifonn ; ovules few or many, immersed in a globose 

 placenta. Fruit globose or subglobose, usually apiculate with the 

 persistent style. Seed solitary, globose. Species upwards of 235, 

 chiefly in Trop. Asia. 



A. solanacea, Roxb. Cor. PI. i, 27, t. 27 ; Fl. Ind. *, 580 ; Mez. in Engl. , 

 Pflanzenreich iv, 132 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii,86. A. humilis, A.DC. (not of 

 Vahl) ; Royle III. 265 ; Brandis For. Fl. 287 ; Ind. Trees 418 (in part} ; 

 F.B.I. Hi, 529 (in part) ; Watt E.D.; Kanjildl For. Fl. Sch. Circ. 217 ; 

 Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 441 ; Prain Beng. PI. 645. 



A large much-branched shrub or small tree. Branches thick, glabrous 

 showing the scars of fallen leaves. Leaves scattered, obovate oblan- 

 oeolate or oblong-elliptic, tapering to an acute base, shortly and 



