108 MYRSINER, [ Ardisia. 
lepidote indumentum ; leaves elliptically lanceolate to lanceolate, 
tapering in an }-1 in. long petiole, longer or shorter acuminate, 
entire, 5-9 in. long, chartaceous, glabrous, the lateral nerves rather 
parallel and diverging ; flowers pink, rather small, on a line long 
glabrous or indistinctly rusty-downy pedicels, more or less um- 
bellulate on short peduncles, forming a compound, rather lax, mi- 
nutely and indistinctly lepidote or rusty-puberulous panicle at the 
end of the branchlets ; calyx indistinctly puberulous or glabrous, 
the lobes about 14 lin. long, lanceolate, acute or nearly so, glandu- 
lar-dotted ; corolla rotate, the lobes ovate, acute, dotted ; drupes 
globular, the size of a small pea, smooth, sea-green, when fully ripe 
white, 1-seeded. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of Martaban and Tenasserim, 
up to 3,000 ft. elevation. —Fr. Feb.-May.—s.—SS,= 
branches greyish brown; leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 
acute at the base, on a rather slender petiole 3-5 lin, long, rather 
shortly and often rather abruptly but bluntish or almost notchedly 
. 
acuminate, 2-5 in. long, entire and somewhat waved, membranous 
of the upper leaves and collected in a terminal panicle ; calyx glab- 
rous or nearly so, the lobes lanceolate, acute, about 4 a line long ; 
corolla rotate, the lobes 1-1} lin. long, ovate, acuminate, 
Has.—Burma. 
5. A. serrulata, Kz.—An evergreen shrub, the young shoots 
covered with t s lanceolate or 
elliptically lanceolate, the base tapering in a 5-8 lin. long petiole, 
: forming ample, rusty-puberulous, 
bracted panicles at the end of the ekntiiss ‘iat in the sxils ‘of the 
upper leaves ; bracts leafy, linear-lanceolate, 3-6 lin. long, rusty- 
pete beneath ; bractlets smaller, linear ; ealyx rusty-puberulous, 
i; 
the lobes ovate, state: about 2 lin, long. - 
Has.—Burma. 
6. A. Andamanica, Kz—An evergreen small shrub, 2-4 ft. 
