Myrsine.] MYRSINER. 105 
Leaves serrate-toothed, the nerves prominent beneath; stigma 3- 
lobed, the lobes large and fringed . : ‘ 2 - I. semiserrata, 
Leaves entire, the nerves thin or almost invisible ; stigma simply 
capitate or obscurely 2-lobed ‘ - avenis, 
1. M. semiserrata, Wall.; Brand. For. Fl. 285.—An evergreen 
tree (20—25 + (?) + 1—2), usually stunted, all parts quite glabrous; 
leaves more or less lanceolate, at the base more or less decurrent on 
the 3 to 4 lin. long petiole, acuminate, serrate-toothed, usually 
entire towards the base, 3-4 in. long, chartaceous or thin-coriaceous 
ves conspicuous; flowers greenish, small, on 1-13 lin. long 
glabrous pedicels, forming rather poor sessile umbellets or rather 
Has.—Frequent in the drier hill forests of the Martaban hills, as on the 
ee ridges, at 6,000 to 7,200 ft. elevation.—Fl. Fr. March.—1.—$$,= 
etam. 
2. M. avenis, DC. (I. capitellata, Wall.; Bedd. Syly. Madr., t. 
234; Brand. For. Fl. 28 
2), usually stunted, all parts glabrous ; leaves lanceolate to almost 
bluntis acuminate, entire, coriaceous or ¢ ick-pergamaceous, vari- 
ble ; flowers small, 5-merous, greenish, dioecious or polygamous, 
sessile or on short. pedicels, forming dense sessile heads or clusters 
in the axils of the leaves and especially above the scars of the 
fallen ones ; bracts ovate, concave, coriaceous 3 calyx urceolate, the 
lobes ovate, acute; corolla-lobes about a line long, lanceolate, re- 
curved, cov with numerous minute brown glands; stigma 
slightly capitate and lobed; stamens shorter 3 drupes globular, the 
Size of a pepper-kernel, in a dried state longitudinally striate, 
crowned by the style, when fully ripe bluish black, 1-seeded. 
Hap.—Frequent in the drier hill forests of Martaban, at 4,000 to 7,000 ft, 
elevation; variety of it (M. lucida, Wall.) not unfrequent in the Eng forests 
of the Prome district at no elevation; also Ava.—F1. pr.-May; Fr. March.— 
L—S8.=Metam.; the var, CaS. Lat. 
