280 FENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Ardisia, 



13. A. a nceps, Wall. 



Shrubby, will) climbing, two-edged branches. Leaves oblonc- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, entire. Panicles terminal, with flattened, near- 

 ly smooth ramifications. Style very long. 



Found in the vicinity of Sjlhet by Mr. De Silva, in blossom in Sep- 

 tember. 



£eng> Lai Jam. 



Branches long, slender, flattened, two-edged with sharpish margins, 

 smooth, pa'e-grey. — Leaves alternate, lanceolate, from five to ten in- 

 ches long, acuminate, acute at the base, perfectly entire, smooth on 

 both sides, coriaceous, marked underneath with a strong middie-rib, 

 and elevated, sub-trausversalj arcuated, reticulated nenes.-— Petiol 

 half an inch long, channelled above, its apex slightly margined. — Pa- 

 nicle terminal, oblong, peduncled, most.y with one or two sinail leaves 

 at the base; aix inches long. Peduncles flat, alternate. Flo&ers sub- 

 umbellate, pedicelled, small, pink-coloured. — Calyx with lanceolate, 

 acute lacmia?, dotted. — Corolla rotate, deeply divided into five ovate, 

 acute, dotted segments, — Style capillary, twice as long as the corol- 

 la,— Stimia minute. — JM. W. 



14. A. complanata, Wall. 



Shrubby, with round branches. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acu- 

 minate. Panicles axillary and terminal, with villous, flattened diva- 

 ricate, flexuose ramifications. Style very long. 



Found by Mr. George Porter on the hills of the island of Pi- 

 nang, in flower and fruit in the beginning of the year.* 



A rambling, sub-scandent shrub, with rounded, slender, smooth, 

 ash-grey, branches; somewhat tomentose and ferruginous while 



* This active young man, who was for some years employed in the Honourable Com- 

 pany's Botanic garden at Calcutta as the head overseer, was obliged to accompany m» 

 to Pinang on account of severe illness. He has now charge of the school-institution 

 and the small botanical nursery which was established there lately, and has already lor- 

 warded the most beautiful and rare collections of growing and preserved plants and 

 seeds to me. In the progress of the work I shall very often be enabled to refer to the 

 froduoe of his zealous and successful labours.—N, "W. 



