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ovate, apiculate, pubescent at tip ; filaments and lower part of anthers 

 attached about half-way up the corolla-lobes. Ovary rounded, conical ; 

 style short in ^ , oblique and with long channelled stigma in 2 . 

 Berry globose, •! in. in diam., glandular, smooth, tipped with the 

 persistent style. DC. Prod. VIII. 96 ; Miq. PI. Jungh. 189, and PI. 

 Ind. Bat. II. 1015 ; Scheff. Myrs. 47 ; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. V. 234. 

 Myrsine capitellata, Wall. var. avenis Clarke in Hook. f. PL Br. Ind. III. 

 512 [in part); Stapf in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, IV. 199. Ardisia avenis, 

 Blume Bijdr. 691. Bapanea avenis, Mez Monog. Myrs. 357. 



SiNGAPOEE : Ridley 253. — Distbib. Java, Celebes, Borneo. 



2. Myesine Porteriana, Wall. Cat. 6525 (1829). A shrub or small 

 tree ; branches grey, rough ; branchlets slender, angled when dry, leaf- 

 buds lanceolate. Leaves chartaceous, entire ; oblong-lanceolate, bluntly 

 acute and slightly emarginate at apex, cuneately narrowed at base, 

 glabrous, glandular dotted, especially along the margin, and often 

 glandular-lineolate, black or greyish when dry ; 1-5 to 3'5 in. long, 

 •75 to 1"25 in. broad ; midrib prominent beneath, impressed above ; main- 

 nerves 8 to 12 pairs, the lowest pair running parallel to the midrib 

 and there joined by the rest, not always easily seen ; secondary nerves 

 few, slender, reticulations minute ; petiole slender, -2 to '4 in. long, 

 channelled above by the decurrent and almost connivent, slightly 

 fimbriate, edges of the blade. Flowers in compact sessile umbels on 

 the summit of a short thick cone-like bracteate arrested branch about 

 •1 to '3 in. long ; bracts ovate, bracteoles oblong, blunt, ciliate ; pedicels 

 angled -1 in. long ; flower-buds ovate, flowers greenish-white, usually 

 dioecious, 5-merous. Calyx-lobes ovate acute, "05 in. long, ciliate, 

 marked with prominent dark round or lineolate glands ; tube as long as 

 lobes. Corolla-lohes oblong obtuse, "1 to "15 in. long, minutely pubescent 

 on the margins, marked by prominent dark rounded and lineolate glands, 

 connate to one-fourth of their length, revolute in flower. Stamens 

 inserted on the corolla, the filaments and lower half of the anthers 

 adnate with it, those of ^ flowers ovate apiculate, those of 2 flowers 

 sagittate; in open flowers exsert, longer than the revolute lobes. Ovary 

 ovoid, glabrous, 3 flowers with a short straight style, ? flowers with an 

 oblique style and oblique folded stigma. Berry globose, glabrous, 

 •1 in. in diam., dark blue when fresh, pale when dry, striate from 

 the elongated vertical glands. A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 106, 

 Prod. VIII. 95. M. capitellata var. avenis, Clarke in Hook. f. PI. Br. Ind. 

 III. 512 {in part). Bapanea Porteriana, Mez Monog. Myrs. 358. 



Penang: Porter in Wallich 6525; Maingay (K.D.) 1005; Curtis 

 1013, 3728, on Government Hill, road to Crag. Perak : Bidley 2992 ; 

 Wray 678, 1537; King's Collector 5001, usually at 5,000 feet eleva- 



