Ardisia, pentandria monogynia* 277 



Bwn-nMiwkalee the vernacular nane in Sz'lhet, where the shrub is 

 indigenous, flowering in the rainy season. 



Leaves alternate, short-petioled, lanceolar, smooth, margins co- 

 loured, somewhat repand, and strong!}' maiked with little, elevated, 

 dark-coloured glands on and rather under the margin ; from four to 

 six inches long, and an inch or an inch and half broad. — Umbellets 

 generally from tour to eight, alternate at and round the extremities of 

 the numerous smooth branchlets, long-peduncled, few-flowered, 

 and globular Flowers small, white, short-pedicelled. — Calyx five- 

 parted, marked with ferruginous spots. — Corol alternate, the lube 

 being very short ; segments of the border five, round, emarginate; 

 imbricated in the bud. — Filaments inserted on the base of the tube. 

 Anthers laigt>, sub-sagittate, sides firmly united, forming a little 

 dome over the mouth, of the tube. — Germ ovate, one-celled, and 

 containing one ovulum, attached to the bottom of the cell. Style 

 slender. Stigma rather enlarged, and even with the top of the anthers, 



Obs. by K W. 



This is a large, branchy, smooth shrub. Branches ash-coloured ; 

 young shoots much elongated, leafy at the apex. — Leaves long-acumi- 

 nate ; base tapering, entiie. — Peduncles very numerous from the 

 apex of the branches, close to each other, spreading, filiform, naked, 

 four inches long, a little flattened ; each bearing an umbel of eight 

 or ten small, pink flowers, dotted with numerous glandular dots — 

 Lacunas of the calyx lanceolate, acute. Jt may at once be distin- 

 guished from all the other species by the globular, obtuse shape 

 of the flower buds ; by their size, which is smaller than that of any 

 of our East Indian species, and by the notched blunt corolla. The 

 form of the inflorescence is also very peculiar. — N. W. 



10. A. macrocarpa, Wall. 



Smooth, shrubby. Leaves oblong, acute, greatly tapering down- 

 Wards, g'and-crenate, dotted. Racemes terminal, corymbiforin, sub- 



