644 BENGAL PLANTS. [Ardisia. 
in a 5-lobed, rarely 4-lobed calyx, persistent and sometimes accres- 
cent in fruit. Petals connate in a red, white, or speckled 5-partite 
corolla; lobes acute, twisted to the right in bud. Stamens 5; 
filaments very short, adnate to corolla; anthers free, ovate-lanceo- 
late, acute. Carpels connate in a globose pages narrowed to the 
apex; style cylindric, often exceeding the corolla-lobes; stigma 
small, terminal; ovules few. Fruit a Laat or subglobose, 
l-seeded berry. Seed globose; albumen pitted or ruminate; 
embryo transverse. 
Flowers in truly or spuriously terminal panicles 
Panicles truly terminal, at least twice divided. ‘thas Deans more or 
ess flattened ; pedicels densely umbelled ; leaves entir 
Leaves coriaceous, decurrent on the stout petiole, a main-nerves 
mite ams at an acute angle; panicle almost glabrous, th beeen 
angular ; calyx-lobes small, round if 
Leaves thickly chartaceous, not decurrent, the main-nerves Laie 
at a ehien@es panicle branches scaly, much flattened ; 
calyx-lobes —— colorata var. a 
Panicles in appearance terminal, the axis of a branch ending in 
apical tuft of seine leaves, between which and the normal pa 
Spring several peduncles bearing rusty ries ; leaves distinctly 
crenulate ; calyx-lobes narrow, acute canes 
Flowers in axillary umbels, at least the lower peduncled, but without 
reduced leaves at the apex of the peduncles ; leaves and flowers glabrous ; 
margin of leaves entire or subentire :— 
Leaves obovate- lanceolate, primary nerves conapieiictil beneath ; 
- branchlets tawny-woolly khasiana var. Thomsoni. 
Leaves obovate-oblong or elliptic ; nerves slender ; branchlets as 
humilis. 
1156. ao PANICULATA Roxb.; F. B. I. iii. 519; E. D. 
. 1299. 
a Bengal ; Chittagong. 
e shrub, 
ar 
1157. pertain CoLORATA Roxb. var, CoMPLANATA Clarke; F. B. I. 
ii EK. D. A. 1284, 
As 
1158. ‘pias Icara Ham.; F. B. I. iii. 523. 
E. Bengal, Mymensingh, 
A large shrub, 
