Ardisia] LXVII. MYRSINACE.E 419 



Fl. pink in a large terminal panicle, its ramifications (as well as the short 

 pedicels) minutely lepidote. Calyx open in bud, segments ovate, anthers 

 shortly mucronate, style filiform \ in. long. 



Outer Himalaya from Garhwal eastwards, ascending to 5.000 ft., often along streams. 

 Assam. Khasi hills, Manipur, Chittagong. Fl. April. May. 14. A. Icara, Ham. (.4. 

 serndata, Kurz). Assam, North-East Bengal. Burma. Similar to L3, but 1. slightly 

 serrulate, calyx-segments linear-lanceolate anil anthers with a long terminal awn. 



15. A. depressa, Clarke. Sikkim 4-0.000 ft. Khasi hills. Singbhum. Upper Burma. L. 

 laneeolnte in- elliptic-lanceolate, blade 3-4, pet. + in. long. Fl. small, in axillary long 

 pedunculate compound umbels, shoi'ter than 1. 16. A rhonihoidea, Wight Ic. t. 1213. 

 Ana ma la i hills. Travancore ami Tinevelli Ghats 2-4,000 ft. A small tree, 1. elongate- 

 rhomboid, acuminate. 2-3 in. long, gradually narrowed into short petiole, peduncles 

 axillary 1-5-fld., shorter than 1. 



(b) Sepals and petals distinctly punctate. 



17. A pauciflora. Heyne; Wight Ic. t. 1211. A large shrub or small tree, common 

 on the Xilgiris and other hills on the West side of the Peninsula. L. lanceolate, blade 

 5-8, pet. J in. Racemes short axillary. 1-o-fld.. petals acuminate, berries red. 18. A. 

 pedunculosa, Wall. Assam. Khasi hills. L. lanceolate. l-t; in. long, narrowed into a 

 short petiole. Fl. rose-red, in many-fid. axillary pedunculate compound corymbs, 

 often forming a large drooping panicle at the ends of branches, buds very acute, 

 pedicels slender. \ in., petals J— J in. long. 



19. A quinquangularis, A. DC. Bengal. L. similar to 13. Fl. in a large terminal 

 panicle, petals J in. long, drupes obtusely 5-ribbed. 20. A Grifflthii, Clarke. Khasi 

 hills. Similar to 13, but I. larger, elliptic-ohlanceolate, 8-12 in. long. seen, numerous, 

 parallel, slender hut distinct, sepals oblong, drupes vertically striated. 



U. Fl. small, in axillary and terminal pauicles, petals less than £ in. long. 



21. A colorata, lioxb. i.l. rnicepa, Wall.: Kurz F. Fl. ii. 107), Assam, Khasi hills. 

 Cachar, Chittagong, Martaban and Tenasseriin. A small tree, luanchlets and under- 

 side of I. covered with minute of ten shining scales. D. lanceolate-oblong, blade 8-12, 

 pet. J in. long, sec. n. numerous, slender, almost at right angles to midrib. Fl. small, 

 in axillary panicles, usually form i lie large terminal panicles, peduncles often flattened, 

 11. small, petals .', In., Style much longer than petals. 22. A andamanica. Kurz. Anda- 



ii i. 'ins. Mergui. A small shrui i. perfectly glabrous, branches slender. L. thin, lanceo- 

 late, blade 3-7, pet. J in. long. Fl. minute, in axillary lax panicles, pedicels slender. 

 divarical Lng, J -f. in. long, petals ,'., in., with copious hlack. more or less elongate dots. 



style a little longer I ban pets Is. 



23. A amplexlcaulls, Bedd. [c. PI. 1 1 id. Or. I. 170; Manual t. xviii. Wainad. Travancore. 

 L. thin, sessile, with an unequal-sided (almost amplexicaul) base, ii n in. long, with 

 a belt of numerous raised dots along the margin. Fl. small, in a lax terminal panicle, 



petals 1 in. long. 



D. Fl. in terminal panicles, supported by a false whorl of leaves. 



21. A panlculata, Etoxb. A—am. Khasi bills. Dacca, frci|neut. chittagong bills. 



A large shrub, I. ohlai late, glabrous, s 20 in. lone, narrowed int.. a short atoul 



petiole, midrib and sec. n. prominent beneath, fl. middle-sized, rose-coloured, in 

 ample pyramidal terminal panicles s 12 in. long, supported at has., by a false n borl of 

 large L. rachis and ramifications angular, glabrous, petals h in., style longer than 

 pet ;ils, pedicels iii tl. j ', iii. long, -" | ,; i I, a i id pets I - not pi 1 1 ie i .\ t . ■. 25. A. missionis, Wall. 

 1 .1. courtalletuif, Wighl tc. t. 1215). Sills on the Wesl side of the Peninsula from Coim- 

 batore southwards, Ceylon, moisl region, common. Similar to 24. Pedicels in fl. J-l 

 in. long, sepals and petals black-punctate, petals J-J iii. lone, style as lone; us petals. 



20. A riglda, Kurz. Tenasserim, ..n the coast. Slam. L. elongate-elliptic, 6-7 in, 

 long, narrowed into a very shorl petiole, sec. n. arching, prominei ith, panicle 



contra ted, I ."> in. lone, sepals and petal- punctate, anthers with a long point. 27. A. 

 Kurzli, I llarke i .1. polycepkala, var. acuminata, Kurz F. Fl. ii. 110). Pegu Yoma, eastern 



slopes. Hills east of Toungoo D.B.Febr. 1880). \ large shrub, 1. cor ii us, glabrous, 



In late, blade i> 9, narrowea int.. |H-t . •. ; in., sec. n. arching running out below the 



margin into distinct intra-marginal veins. Fl. in pedunculate umbelhform corymbs, 

 :: I hi i In. end- ..I branches, supported by a false whorl ,.f large I. 



II. Leaves crenate or serrate. 



A. Branchlets and petioles glabi 



