134 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Eoxb. M. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 275 {not of Lindl.). A. punctulosa, 

 D. Dietr. Syn. PI. I. 615 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 11. 1025. 



Penang : Jach ; Wallich 2269 ; Maingay (K.D.) 1020 ; Curtis 1769. 



19. Abdisia sumateana, Miq. PI. Jungh. I. 195 (1858), El. Ind. 

 Bat. II. 1018, and Suppl. 247. A large shrub or small tree, reaching 15 to 

 20 feet in height and 3 to 4 in. in diam. of stem ; branches pale brown, 

 smooth ; branchlets minutely ferruginous-scaly. Leaves chartaceous ; 

 elliptic-oblong or -obovate, rather suddenly acute at apex, acute or cuneate 

 at base ; entire, glabrous ; glands large, frequent near the margin ; 3 to 6 

 in. long, 1"5 to 2'5 in. broad; midrib slender, prominent beneath, im- 

 pressed above ; main-nerves 12 to 15 pairs, irregularly spaced, starting 

 at an angle of about 50° with the midrib, curving upwards to and along 

 the margin ; secondary nerves and innovations indistinct ; petiole 'S to 

 •5 in. long, bordered above by the decurrent, often erose, margins of 

 the blade. Inflorescence a compact, shortly pyramidal, 3 to 4 in. long, 

 squarrosely bipinnate panicle ; common peduncle none or scarcely "5 in. 

 long; bracts minute, triangular; branch peduncles "7 to 1 in. long, 

 minutely ferruginous-scaly as is the rachis ; pedicels -2 to -3 in. long, 

 slender ; buds ovoid, conical ; flowers waxy- white, pedicels and rachis 

 pink. Calyx-lobes orbicular, -1 in broad, ciliate, with scarious margins, 

 much overlapping ; glandular dots very few, scattered. Corolla-lobes 

 shortly connate, ovate, acute, much twisted, -15 in. long ; margins thin, 

 denticulate; glands few, large and brown. Stamens about two-thirds 

 the length of the corolla-lobes ; anthers ovate-acute, "1 in. long, a few 

 large black glands on the back. Ovary ovoid, glabrous ; style subulate, 

 •15 in. long. Berry bright red at first afterwards black, globose, shining, 

 •2 in. in diam., smooth, faintly striate. Scheff. Myrs. 84 ; Koord. & 

 Val. Bijdr. V. 268; Mez Monog. Myrs. 121. 



Peeak: King's Collector 111, 5639, 10836. — Disteib. Sumatra, 

 Beccari 325, 724 ; Forbes 2083 &c. ; Java. 



20. Aedisia lanceolata, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 85 (1814), Fl. Ind. 1. 583, 

 a,nd Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 275. A large glabrous shrub or small 

 tree, reaching 15 to 25 feet in height ; branches cylindric, pale, smooth ; 

 branchlets sometimes fugaciously ferruginous-scaly. Leaves coriaceous; 

 elliptic-oblong or -obovate, shortly acuminate at apex, long-cuneate 

 at base ; entire or sometimes slightly crenate near the apex ; glabrous 

 on both surfaces ; glandular dots large scattered, more numerous near 

 the margins ; 6 to 11 in. long, 2 to 3"5 in. broad ; midrib prominent 

 beneath, impressed above; main-nerves 12 to 15 pairs, oblique, starting at 

 an angle of about 50° with the midrib, and at first more or less parallel, 

 then arching upwards to join in an irregular intramarginal nerve; 

 secondary nerves similar but shorter, reticulations scarcely prominent. 



