Ardisia.| MYRSINE®. 1li 
lin. long strong petiole, 3-5 in. long, blunt or apiculate, entire, 
succulent-coriaceous, glossy, glabrous, the nerves in a dried state 
thin but conspicuous ; flowers rather small, rose-coloured, on strong 
terete 6-9 lin. long curved pedicels, forming an umbel-like glabrous, 
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rather robust raceme on about an inch long peduncle in the axils 
Has.—In the beach jungles and along the sea-shores of the Andamans and 
Tenasserim.—F]. May-June.—l.—S8. = Aren. Sal. 
raceme on a 1-2 in. long pedunele in the axils of the leaves and 
often crowded by 2 or 8 at the end of the branchlets ; calyx 
minutely puberulous, coriaceous, the lobes oval and rounded, about 
a line long; corolla rotate, glabrous, the lobes ovate, acuminate, 
nearly 3-24 lin. long ; drupes globular, the size of a small pea, 
longitudinally striate, glabrous, 1-seeded. 
Mars? Seuthern Pegu and Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. March; Fr. Feb.- 
ch. 
14. A. grandifolia, DC.—Branches pilose ; leaves obovate-ob- 
long, large, narrowed in a 4-8 lin. long very hispid petiole at the 
acute base, cuspidate-acute, 5-9 in. long by 3-4 broad, not coria- 
feous, glabrous above, beneath pilose and very hispid from silky 
purplish hairs along the midrib; racemes almost terminal, one-fifth 
the length of the leaves, puberulous, the pedicels nearly umbellate, 
hardly shorter than the peduncle ; calyx-lobes lanceolate, acute, 
Prods ciliate, 2 lin, long; drupes glabrous, 3 lin, thick.—(DC, 
Haz.—Tenasserim. 
15. A. eugeniefolia, Wall.—An evergreen shrub, the branch- 
lets covered with a minute rusty-coloured down ; leaves oblong to 
oblong-lanceolate, acute at the base, on a strong, 4-5 lin, long, 
minutely rusty-puberulous petiole, rather abruptly acuminate, entire 
