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igiceras.] SAPOTACE&. 645 
1159. ARDISIA KHASTANA Clarke var. THomsont Clarke; F. B. I. 
iii. 527. 
spams 
A small erect shrub, 1-4 feet high. 
1160. ArpristA HUMILIS Vahl; F. B. I. iii. 529; E. D. A. 1288. 
A, solanacea F. I. i. 580. 
In almost every province. 
An erect, branched shrub, sometimes almost tree- like. 
Beng. Ban-jim ; Uriya Kudna; Hind. Bisi. 
520. Agiceras Gaertn. 
mall, glabrous tree, with ¢ lindric branches; leaves alter- 
ileal petioled, obovate, entire, coriaceous, 1-nerved. Flowers 
hermaphrodite, white, with filiform pedicels, in somali axillary, 
terminal or leaf-opposed umbels; bracts 0. Sepals connate in a 
5-lobed calyx; lobes imbricate. Petals 5, connate below in a 
short tube, free above, acute, twisted to the right in bud. Stamens 
5, adnate to corolla-tube ; filaments linear, hirsute at base; anthers 
cordate-lanceolate, with longitudinal dehiscence; cells trans- 
versely septate. Carpels connate in an oblong ovary, narrowed 
into a filiform style; stigma minute, termm inal; ovul 
- immersed in a globose, Se placenta. Fruit a cylindric, 
curved, acute, coriaceous, cercaes + seeded follicle. Seed con- 
form to the fruit, germinating within the pericarp; albumen 0; 
radicle inferior, much elongated, aie at the base ; cotyledons 
very sho 
1161. Miaicwnis masus Gaertn.; F. I. iii. 180; F. B. I. iii. 533 ; 
E. D. A. 531. 
Orissa, Mahanadi Delta ; Sundribuns. 
A large shrub or small tree in mangrove-swamps. 
Vernac. Halsi, khalsi. 
Order LXXVIII. SAPOTACEZ. 
Trees or shrubs; nor sane 
ung parts often 
alte =e or rarely “subopposita petioled, en coriaceo 
Flow oe eesti, oma or 
calyx, with 4-8 -nahtidibetehie lobes, subequal or the inner larger, 
