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Leaves alternate, evergreen, crenate, obtuse or emarginate, deep 

 green above, paler beneath, glabrous, with a row of submarginal red 

 glands evident on both surfaces, sometimes also developing scattered 

 glands all over the upper surface ; petioles very short, flattened 

 above or subchannelled. 



No. 1. Small, spathulate or obovate, truncate. 



Nos. 2 and 3. Oval, obtuse. 



No. 4. Elliptic, narrowed somewhat to both ends, minutely 

 emarginate. 



Ardisia japonica, Blum. (fig. 504). 



Fruit a globose drupe, scarlet, glabrous ; epicarp thin; mesocarp 

 pulpy ; endocarp pale brown, crustaceous, marked longitudinally 

 with strong nerves ; placenta prominent, 

 thickened, causing an indentation at 

 the base of the seed, thinning away 

 towards the sides and forming a cup 

 surrounding the base of the seed. 



Seed as in A. crenulata. 



Endosperm copious, constituting 

 nearly the whole bulk of the seed, sub- 

 transparent. 



Embryo similar to that of the last 

 species, but reaching almost across the 

 seed, the cotyledons, which are equal in 

 width to the radicle at their base and F - 50i. Ardisia japonica. 



. 5,11.1. Germinating seed, showing 



tapering towards the tip, lying just six embryos, x 2. 

 within the endosperm on one side of the 



seed, or directed towards the base in cases where the radicle ascends ; 

 radicle many times longer than the cotyledons. 



When the embryo is solitary it is transverse to the axis, but the 

 number of embryos varies from one to six ; when several they assume 

 various directions, ascending, erect or suberect, and nearly or quite 

 perpendicular to the placenta. 



Seedling. 



Hypocotyl similar to that of A. crenulata. 



Cotyledons small, ovate, with long petioles, remaining in the 

 seed; petioles flattened above and channelled, glandular-pubescent 

 or ciliate. 



Stem erect, terete, densely glandular-pubescent and red, at least 

 when young, ultimately woody ; first interuode undeveloped ; 2nd 

 and 3rd each about 4 5 mm. long. 



