Ardisia. Pentandria monogynia. SOft 



Lycium japonicum, Thunb. Jap. 93. t- 17. 



Lycium jectidum, Linn, sup.pl. 150. 



Lycium indicum, Retz. obs. ii .p. 12. 



Introduced into our gardens in India from China which accounts 

 for the natives having no name for it. In the botanic garden at 

 Calcutta it blossonis the whole year round, but never produces fruit $ 

 the flowers being constantly double. 



ARDISIA. Schreb. Gen. N- 1735. 



Calyx five-leaved. Corol hypocrateriform. Germ superior, one- 

 celled, one-seeded, attachment inferior. Stigma subulate. Berry 

 superior, one-seeded. Embryo transversely serpentine in an ample 

 perisperm. 



1. A. solanacea, Willd. sp. i. 1063. Roxb. Corom. 1. 27. 



Shrubby. Leaves alternate, oblong, entire, glossy. Racemes ax* 

 illary, corymbiform. Segments of the corol ovate. 



Beng. Bun-jam. 



Teiing. Conda-mayoor. 



A small tree, or large shrub, a native of moist places in the 

 vallies amongst the Circar mountains. In flower and seed nearly 

 the whole year. 



Trunk one or more from the same root, erect. Bark ash-coloured. 

 • — Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oblong, and cuneate-oblong, point- 

 ed, entire, smooth, glossy, somewhat succulent ; from four to sis 

 inches long, by two or three broad. — Racemes corymbiform, axillary, 

 shorter than the leaves. — Peduncles round, smooth. — Pedicels club- 

 bed, round, smooth. — Bractes a concave one below each pedice!. — • 

 Flozeers pretty large, rose-coloured. — Calyx five-leaved ; leaflets im- 

 bricated, concave, roundish ; permanent. — Corol one-petalled. 'Lube 

 exceedingly short. Border nve-cleft; divisions spreading, cordate. — 

 jPilauients five, exceedingly short, from the bottom of the tube. An- 



