106 MYRSINER. — [Ardisia. 
ARDISIA, Sw. 
Calyx 5-parted or rarely 5-cleft, the lobes convolute-imbricate. 
Corolla 5-parted or rarely 5-cleft, the lobes spreading or reflexed, 
contorted-imbricate or very rarely valvate in bud. Stamens 5, in- 
serted in the corolla-tube or to its base ; filaments free, usually very 
short ; anthers free, erect, 2-cleft or emarginate at the base, the 
cells not chambered, opening in longitudinal slits. Ovary superior, 
1-celled, with many peltate ovules on a central spherical placenta; 
style filiform, with a subulate stigma. Drupe globular, more or less 
succulent, containing a coriaceous by abortion 1-seeded nut.— 
Shrubs, sometimes trees or undershrubs, with alternate often dotted 
leaves. Flowers rather small, but showy, usually waxy, forming 
mostly short umbel-like racemes axillary or rarely terminal, or in 
terminal panicles. 
% Flowers in terminal compound panicles or the panicles 
terminal with smaller ones in the axils of the upper leaves. 
X Pedicels much shorter than the calyx, or the flowers 
almost sessile; leaves entire, 
Panicle stiff and strong, minutely rusty-puberulous ; calyx-lobes 
acute , ; " i ‘ ‘ : 3 ‘ > . A, rigida. 
X X Pedicels longer than the calyx, 
O Pedicels only 1-2 lin. long. 
+ Leaves entire. 
Leaves coriaceous, decurrent on the strong petiole, the nerves in 
acute angles ; panicles glabrous or nearly so, ample ; peduncles 
an, re i ; ® * ‘ SSeS ; . A. paniculata. 
Leaves almost chartaceous, not deeurrent, the nerves almost ree- 
ly diverging, numerous ; panicles slightly puberulous ; 
peduncles compressed . . LE : . : ‘ 
Leaves chartaceous ; panicles rusty-puberulous ; calyx-lobes lance- 
olate eo. . Abies . A. neriifolia, 
A. anceps. 
++ Leaves serrulate, 
Habit as former ; calyx-lobes linear . F i ‘ . A, serrulata, 
OO Pedicels 4-1 in. long; panicles terminal, consist- 
ing of a few slender umbel-like racemes, 
Exactly as A. attenuata ; leaves much dotted é 3 . : 
%* * Flowers racemose, the racemes more or less umbel-like 
contracted, peduncled or sessile, axillary or spuriously 
ve Sass % @, arising from the summit of an azillary 
shoot. 
X Leaves entire, 
O Calyx-lobes broad, rounded or blunt, 
_ T Quite glabrous. 
Leaves 3-5 in. long, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate ; corolla lobes} A, attenuata. 
t an inch Jone. - } Ao 
A, Andamanica, 
Leaves 5-10 in. long, obovate-lanceolate pedicels lo: : pages h l 
aes ’ s ate ; els $ an in. lon . A, polycephala. 
Leaves 5-7 in. tong, oblong-lanceolate ; pedicels about an in, lex «A. pa 
Breage s umilis. 
