MYRSINE ACE.E. XIII. CORYNOCARPCS. 



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XIII. CORYNOCA'RPUS (from topvvn, coryne, a club; and 

 krapTToc, karpos, a fruit, in reference to the shape of the fruit.) 

 Forster, gen. t. 16. Schreb. gen. 394. Juss. 288. 



LIN. SYST. Pentandria Monogynia. Calyx of 5 concave se- 

 pals. Corolla of 5 roundish petals, narrowed at the base: alter- 

 nating with as many petal-formed scales, which are furnished 

 each with a gland inside at the base. Stamens 5, rising from 

 the claws of the petals, subulate ; anthers oblong ; style one, 

 short ; stigma obtuse. Drupe terbinately clavate, containing a 

 single 1 -seeded nut. A shrub, with alternate, stalked, obovate, 

 wedge-shaped, sub-emarginate, quite entire, glabrous leaves ; 

 and terminal, large, sessile panicles of white flowers. 



1 C. LXVIGA'TA (Forst. 1. c. Lin. syst. 242.) I? . G. Native 

 of New Zealand. 



Smooth Corynocarpus. Fl. ? Clt. 1823. Tree. 20 feet. 



Cult. For culture and propagation see Ardisia, p. 20. 



f Shrubs belonging to the Myrsineacece, but doubtful to which of 

 the genera they appertain. 



* Natives of Asia. 



1 E.MBE'LIA ? LUCIDA (Wall. cat. no. 2315. Alph, D. C. 1. c. 

 p. 134.) branches grey; leaves oval, alternate, 2-4 inches long, 

 acute at both ends, coriaceous, entire, with revolute hardly dotted 

 edges, having the lateral nerves arched near the margin ; pedun- 

 cles spike-formed, axillary, solitary or twin, 4 times shorter 

 than the leaves, velvety : covered with ovate-acute, imbricating 

 bracteas their whole length ; ovarium sessile, ovoid, in the axils 

 of the bracteas, terminated by a 2-5 lobed stigma. F; . S. 

 Native of Singapore. From the ovarium, stigma, and bracteas 

 about the base of the peduncles, it agrees with Myrsine ; but 

 from the flowers being alternate on secund peduncles, it agrees 

 with Embelia. 



Shining Embelia. Shrub. 



2 EMBE'LIA? CORIA'CEA (Wall. cat. no. 2314. Alph. D. C. 

 1. c.) branches blackish, striated ; leaves lanceolate, acute, half 

 a foot long, entire, glabrous, coriaceous, glaucescent beneath, 

 having the lateral nerves hardly evident, besprinkled with small 

 dots on both surfaces ; panicle terminal, elongated, loose, length 

 of leaves ; peduncles and pedicels pilose ; calyx glabrous ; berries 

 round, dotted, glabrous ; style shorter than the berry ; stigma 

 capitate. T; . S. Native of Penang. Leaves and inflorescence 

 those of Ardisia, but the stigma is capitellate. 



Coriaceous-leaved Embelia. Shrub. 



3 MY'RSIXE ? UMBELLA'TA (Wall. cat. no. 2312. Alph. D. C. 

 1. c. p. 135.) branches glabrous ; leaves 2-3 inches long, oblong, 

 obtuse, glabrous, a little denticulated, with revolute margins, 

 thickish. slightly dotted ; flowers axillary, on a common short 

 peduncle: covered by ovate, acute, concave, rather ciliated, short 

 bracteas ; pedicels umbellate, filiform, 4-6 in number ; calyx 5- 

 parted. T; . S. Native of Singapore. Inflorescence that of 

 Myrsine. 



Umbellulate-fiovfered Myrsine. Shrub. 



4 ARDisiA? SPICA'TA (Wall. cat. no. 2273. Alph. D. C. 1. c.) 

 glabrous ; leaves on long petioles : petioles 3 inches long, dilated 

 and marginated, sheathing at the base for the space of one inch : 

 limb ovate, acute at both ends, 3-4 inches long, 1-J- to 2-j inches 

 broad, repandly crenulated, coriaceous, full of pellucid dots, 

 having the nervation very singular for the order : the lateral 

 nerves are numerous, parallel, and very distinct, even to near the 

 margin, with smaller, hardly perspicuous, transverse nerves; 

 peduncles axillary, 1-3 inches long, and are, as well as the 

 pedicels and flowers, rather downy : bearing lateral, many- 

 flowered, or 1 -flowered, alternate branchlets ; pedicels usually 

 umbellate at the tops of the branchlets, 2 lines long ; bracteas 

 subulate, caducous ; calyx deeply 5-cleft, with slender, subulate, 



erectly incurved lobes ; corolla and stamens unknown ; ovarium 

 superior, ovoid, terminated by the filiform style, which is the 

 length of the calyx; berries globose, thick, 1 -seeded, as in 

 Ardisia. J? . S. Native of Singapore. The inflorescence is 

 that of Choripetalum. The petioles, being dilated at the base, 

 are very like those of Alisma, and it will therefore form a new- 

 genus. 



Spicate-Qovcered Ardisia. Shrub or tree. 



5 ARDISIA DENTICULA'TA (Blum, bijdr. p. 691.) leaves oblong, 

 acuminated at both ends, bluntish at the apex, denticulated at 

 top, glabrous ; umbels sub-corymbose, rarely solitary, terminal 

 or axillary ; calycine segments obtuse ; flowers for the most 

 part tetrandrous. T? . S. Native of Java, on the Seribu moun- 

 tains, and about Rompien. 



Denticulated-leaved Ardisia. Fl. March. Shrub. 



6. M.E'SA TETRA'NDRA (Roxb. fl. ind. 2. p. 233.) leaves alter- 

 nate, oblong, entire ; racemes axillary ; flowers tetrandrous. 

 Jj . S. Native of the Moluccas. 



Tetrandrous Maesa. Shrub. 



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Natives of Africa, and probably belonging to the genus 

 Badula. 



7 ARDISIA MICROPHY'LLA (Roem. et Schultes, syst. 4. p. 804, 

 ex Pet. Th. in. herb. Willd.) leaves obovate, acutish, quite 

 entire ; peduncles axillary, 1-flowered. Tj . S. Native of 

 Madagascar. 



Small-leaved Ardisia. Shrub. 



8 ARDISIA FLORIBU'NDA (Roem. et Schultes, 1. c.) panicles 

 axillary, divaricate ; leaves elliptic-obovate, quite entire. Jj . S. 

 Native of Madagascar. 



Bundle -flowered Ardisia. Shrub. 



9 ARDISIA PYRIFOLIA (Roam, et Schultes, 1. c.) peduncles 

 racemose, terminal ; leaves obovate, coriaceous, quite entire. 

 Tj . S. Native of Madagascar. 



Pear-leaved Ardisia. Shrub. 



10 ARDISIA ERYTHROXYLOIDES (Rcem. et Schultes, 1. c.) 

 flowers lateral, subspicate at the tops of the branches ; leaves 

 lanceolate-obovate, coriaceous, fj . S. Native of Madagascar. 



Erythroxy 'Ion-like Ardisia. Shrub. 



* * * Natives of America. 



11 MT'RSISE ? SPICA'TA (H. B. et Kunth. nov. gen. amer. 3. p. 

 250.) leaves obovate-oblong, rounded at the apex, quite entire, 

 glabrous, glaucous, pruinose and shining above ; spikes axillary, 

 about equal in length to the petioles ; flowers sessile ; corollas 

 4-5-parted. Jj . S. Native of the province of New Guiana, 

 in inundated places on the banks of the river Atabapo. Leaves 

 coriaceous, 3-3^ inches long. Segments of calyx ovate-acute, 

 full of glandular dots. Corolla yellowish, with bluntish revolute 

 segments, full of glandular dots. Stamens, with very short ^la- 

 brous filaments : and erect, lanceolate, and tetragonal anthers, 

 which dehisce lengthwise inside. Style filiform ; stigma simple. 

 Ovarium ovate, glabrous. Perhaps a species of Weigeltia ; but, 

 nevertheless, it differs in the form and size of the anthers. In- 

 florescence not that of Myrsine. 



Spicate-fiovvered Myrsine. Shrub 8 to 12 feet. 



12 ARDISIA. BRAZILIE'KSIS (Spreng. syst. 1. p. 602.) leaves 

 lanceolate-oblong, tapering to both ends, membranous, entire ; 

 panicles lateral ; peduncles umbelliferous. J? . S. Native of 

 Brazil. 



Brazilian Ardisia. Shrub. 



* * ffafag country doubtful. 



13 ARDISIA MULTIFLORA (Ram. et Schultes, syst. 4. p. 804. 

 ex herb. Willd.) flowers racemose ; leaves oblong, attenuated 



