Ardisia. pentandria monogynia. 231 



young. — Leaves approximate, very spreading, oblong-lanceolate, 

 with nearly parallel or straight, perfectly entire margins, tapering, 

 acuminate, acute and sub-decurrent at the base, from six to eight 

 inches long, coriaceous, smooth underneath, wish elevated rib and 

 parallel, nearly transversal nerves, which unite and are reticulate near 

 the margins. — Petiol round, strong, channelled, ha'f an inch or an 



inch long; slightly margined Panicles axillary and terminal, peduu- 



cled, ovale, shorter than the leaves; composed of alternate racemes 

 of uuibelled, small pink-coloured flowers. — Peduncle flattened and 

 two-edged, divaricate, flexuose, villous, at Length smooth. — Bractes 

 large, linear-lanceolate, folded, recurved. — Flowers small, pale pink- 

 coloured, forming globular umbellets, on short pedicels, each of 

 which is supported by a minute bracte. Calyx with triangular, 

 acute, dotted, ciliate laciniae. — Berry globular, as large as a pepper- 

 corn, dark-purple, nearly black, blunt. 



Obs. This is exceedingly like the foregoing, and scarcely to be 

 distinguished except in having round branches and divaricate sub-re- 

 flexed ramifications of the panicles. — N. VV. 



15. A. tubercnlata, Wall. 



Shrubby, smooth. Leaves entire, lanceolate-oblong, attenuate, 

 ob ; u-e. Panicle terminal, branchy, leafy, consisting of short, pedun- 

 e'ed racemes —Peduncles tlexuose, flattened. — Rachh cylindric, tu- 

 bercled. 



I have found it in forests at Singapore, in flower and fruit in Oc- 

 tober. 



Branches smooth, covered with ash-coloured bark, slightly flexu- 

 ose, with two opposite, elevated lines ; the upperm st sub-compressed. 

 ■ — Leaves scattered, four inches long, smooth, leathery, shining, glan- 

 dular and dotted while young, perfectly entire ; base acute ; apex ta- 

 pering, obtuse; the uppermost or floral ones linear-lanceolate — Fa* 

 tticles terminal, oblong, consisting of alternate, flattened, flexuose 

 brandies. Racemes an inch long, equalling their peduncles. Flowers 



