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1 1 . A. pauciftora, Heyne. 



Shrubby, smooth. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, alternate, short- 

 peiioled, entire. Peduncles lateral and axillary, filiform, from two to 

 taut -flowered. 



Specimens are preserved in the la!e Dr. Heme's hortus siccus. 

 Ti^ey are labelled " Ardisia pauciftora, 20th March, 1S17." — No 

 native place is mentioned; but 1 conjecture it to be Wynaad. 



Branches slender, greyish-brovui ; young ones covered with ferru- 

 ginous, dense, scaly tomentum. — Leaves alternate, spreading, lan- 

 ceolate or oblong-lanceoate, from four to five inches long, tapering 

 into a bluntish, sometimes retuse acumen ; acute at the base ; perfect- 

 ly smooth, obscurely nerved. — Vetiols short. — Peduncles very sieu- 

 dei, filiform, thiee or four times longer than the petiols, from two to 

 tin ee-llouertd. — Pedicels half an inch long, supported by minute, 

 linear bractes. — Plozeers small. — N. W. 



12. A. pedunculosa, Wall. 



biiiulby, perfectly smooth. — Leaves approximate, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, shoi t-petioled, entire. Corymbs axillary and terminal, 

 long-peduncled. Latinize, of the corolla acuminate. 



Native of Sillier, from whence I had specimens in 1820, gather- 

 ed by Mr. De Silva. 



Branches ash-coloured, angular — Leaves numerous and crowded 

 at the upper part of the branches, lanceolate, acuminate, entire, or 

 with some obscure, remote crenatures, rather tapering at the base; 

 from four to six inches long, obscurely nerved when dry, coriaceous;; 

 on short, channelled petiols. — Corymbs terminal and axillary towards 

 the top of the branches, long-peduncled, ramous ; forming a loose, 

 sub-panicled 3 terminal inflorescence, which is intermixed with leaves. — 

 Peduncles very slender, filiform, four inches long: partial ones an 

 inch or an inch and half long. — Flowers reddish, sub-umbellate, on 

 capillary, rather long pedicels. — Lacinia of the dotted corolla ra- 

 ther ©blique, terminated by a subulate acumen. — .N. W. 



