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branches long, scrambling, 1. thinly coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, quite entire, blade 

 4-8, pet. 1 in. long. sec. n. distant, 6-8 pair. Racemes glabrous, compound, axillary, as 

 long as 1. sometimes longer or shorter. 5. M. andamanica, Kurz F. Fl. ii. 575. South 

 Andaman, ran', very similar to I. but 1. minutely denticulate. 



6. M. rugosa, Clarke. Sikkim 5-7.000 ft. Bhutan. A stout shrub. 1. coriaceous, 

 lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, remotely and minutely denticulate, see. n. 12-18 pair, 

 prominenl beneath, as well as the tertiary and shorter intermediate nerves, blade 6-8, 

 pet. J— 1 in. Racemes compound, 1-2 in. long, berries yellowish-white. Near this are 

 possibly .1/. ijrantlijlora. Mez. Assam, and .1/. popiitifolia. Mez, Kohima. Xaga hills. 



(c) Leaves hairy. 



7. M. dubia, "Wall. .1/. indica, Bedd. Manual t. xviii. tig. i.) Evergreen forests of 

 the Western Ghats, Konkan to Malabar. Branchlets and I. rusty-tomentose, 1. ovate- 

 lanceolate, blade4-7, pet. A-l in. long. Racemes compressed, less than half the length 

 of 1. Near this pi'ol, ably M. velutina, Mez. Bombay. 8. M. argentea, Wall. Garhwal, 

 Kumaon, Nepal. Sikkim 3-7,000 ft. A large shrub, branchlets softly pubescent. 1. often 

 whitish beneath, ovate, acuminate, base acute, blade 6-10, pet. J— 1 in. long. Racemes 

 1-2 in. long, fr. $ in. diain. 9. M. macroplryHa, Wall. Nepal. Sikkim. 3-5,000 ft. 

 Bhutan. A large shrub, branches velvety, 1. elliptic or orbicular, evenly serrate', base 

 more Or less cordate, blade C-s, pet. 1-1J in. long. see. n. 10-11 pair, prominent beneath. 

 bifurcating near edge of 1. Racemes compound, pubescent. 5- in in. long, sometimes 

 forming a terminal panicle. 



10. To this group belongs a shrub or small tree sent by Montague Hill from the hills 

 east of Bhamo, I. minutely pellucid-punctate, branchlets, nerves on the underside of 

 I. with long -lender hairs, racemes covered with a profusion of white tl., 1-3 ill. long, 

 with long branches above the base, often fasciculate in the axils, and forming a 

 terminal panicle. Pedicels as long as tl.. calyx-segments ciliate, not veined, corolla 

 with prominenl brown veins. 



B. Corolla cainpanulate, lobes shorter than tube. 



11. M. permollis, Kurz. — Syn. .1/. mollissima, Kurz P. Fl. ii. LOO; M. mollis, Clarke 



.1/. mollis. A. 1 K '. is a Javan species). Hills of Upper ami Lower Burma, ascending to 

 1,000 ft. Yunnan. A slender shrub, branchlets, pet ioles and underside of I. hairy, 



1. elliptic, acuminate, denial'-, blade 5-7, pet. r',-1 in. long. Inflorescence compact, 



densely hirsute, shorter than petiole, bracts minute. 



12. M. Kurzii, Mez. — Syn. .1/. muscosa, Kurz P. Fl. ii. 100 (Maesa muscosa, A. IK', is a 

 9pecies of the Malay Archip.i. I'pper Burma. Branchlets and 1. glabrous, except for 



- btered hairs. 1. elliptic or obovate, acuminate, dentate, blade 5-10. pet. :-; 1 in. 

 Racemes usually hirsute, compound, twice the length of petioles or longer, bracts 



lanceolate, persistent, as long as ll. or nearly so. Specimens collected by Smales in the 

 Shwebo district, 1,000 ft. Natcho »e«n, Burm., have 1. entire glabrous and racemes 

 slightly hairy. 



2. MYRSINE, Linn.: Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 511. 



Evergreen trees or shrubs, I. coriaceous. Fl. polygamous or dioicous. sub- 

 sessile or Oil short pedicels, in dense clusters, usually axillary. Calyx small. 

 istent, t-5-fid, corolla white, 4-5-partite, segments in bud imbricate or 

 valvate, both with resinous dots. Ovary free, globose, stigmas 2 5, erect or 

 spreading, sessile or on a short style. Fr. red or purple, seed 1. Species Si) 

 Clarke), ll" .Mez chiefly tropical. Mez {Myrsinacea. 342) includes under 

 Rapanea the species wirb sessile stigmas. 



I. M. capitellata. Wall.: Wight [ c . L211 : Bedd. PI. Sylv. t. 234. 



A small tree, I. entire, pellucid-punctate. Ian late or clliptic-lan late, 



blade 8-7, narrowed into a marginal •■ petiole ', in. long. Fl. 5-merOUS, sessile 



or shortly pedicellate, in dense fascicles on short w ly protuberances in the 



axils of fallen [.j stigmas sessile, erect, more or less combined. Berry \ \ in. 

 diam., purple. Calyx-segments ciliate, corolla-lobes spreading or reflexed. 

 Anthers nearly sessile in the 7/ , on short filaments in the ■' ll. 



Outer Himalaya, ascending to 1,000 ft., from Nepal eastwards. Assam. Chosi hills. 

 Burma, rpper and Lower. West sideot the Peninsula, chiefly in evei rests, 



from .North Kaicna southwards, Comi in the Nilgin sholas. Fl. Oct. June, 



Ceylon, isl region, Malay Peninsula and Archip. China, Japan. An ex< dinglj 



