27f? PENTANDRIA MONOG^NIA, Ardisia. 



sessile. Lacini<£ of the corolla ovate, obtuse. Berries large, glo- 

 bular. 



Grows on most of the hills about the valley of Nipal, blossoming 

 during the rains and ripening its fruit in winter. 



A branchy, erect shrub, perfectly smooth, from five to six feet high, 

 with greenish round branches, marked with slightly elevated lines 

 which descend from each petiol. Young shoots elongated, naked, 

 except at their apex, Irequently so near to each other as to become 

 sub-verticilled. — Leaves scattered, approximate, especially on the 

 younger branches, spreading, coriaceous, shining, oblonj, acute, 

 tapering very considerably from the middle downwards, from six 

 to eight inches long, slightly folded length-ways, of a dark green 

 colour above, pale underneath, without nerves or veins while fresh ; 

 serrato-crenate, crenatures rounded, large, with the sinuses glandular 

 and elevated on the upper suiface, which inconsequence becomes 

 knobbed j both surfaces are marked with innumerable, unequal, 

 minute, opaque dots, especially close to the margin, where thev are 

 elegantly disposed in a continued, sub-marginal line — Petiol thicken, 

 about an inch long, gradually widening into the decurrenl base of the 

 leaf. — Raceme terminal, oval, corymbose, sub-sessile, about two in- 

 ches long, very slightly pubescent, sometimes with a lew, short, lan- 

 ceolate Moral leaves.— Flowers on small, clavate pedicels, flesh-colour- 

 ed, shining, dotted with many minute dark points. — Corolla about 

 twice the size of the calyx ; its lacinice ovate, obtuse, rather narrow at 

 the base. — Berry spherical, of a beautiful vermillion colour, as large 

 almost as a gooseberry, smooth, shining ; when dry it becomes deep 

 purple and is reduced to the size of a large pea. 



Obs. This is a very elegant shrub both in flower and fruit. It 

 comes near to A. crenata, Roxb. Its leaves are long and remajkably 

 tapering toward the narrow base ; margins beautifully crenate, glan- 

 dular and knobbed ; the thick elevated glands which occupy the in- 

 terstices of the crenatures, rising considerably above the upper surface, 

 The beiries are very large. -^N. W. 



