518 ixxxvm. MYESiNEiB, (C. B. Clarke.) [^Lahisia. 



4. IiABXSXA, Lindl. 



Small shrubs, with a creeping rhizome and short simple stem. Leaves 

 lanceolate, acuminate, primary nerves nearly at rig'ht angles to the midrib; 

 petiole dilated at the base. Flowers small, white, in axillary panicled spikes ; 

 bracts very small. Calyx 5-toothed. CoroUa 6-partite; segments ovate, 

 induplicate-valvate in bud. Stamens 5, filaments short ; , anthers oblong-linear. 

 Ovary superior, globose ; style cylindric, stigma small ; ovules few. Fruit 

 small, globose, 1-seeded. Seed globose, base hollowed, albumen smooth ; em- 

 bryo transverse. — Species 2, Malayan. 



1. Ii. potbolna, lAndl. inBot. Reg. 31, t. 48 ; leaves glabrous or puberu- 

 lous beneath entire or nearly so, flowers very shortly pedicelled clustered on the 

 rachis of the linear rusty-pubescent panicle. Ardisia pumila, Blume Bijd. 688 ; 

 A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 136, and Prodr. viii. 137 ; Scheff. Myrdn. 92. 

 A. ? spicata, WaU. Cat. 2273. 



Maxacca and Singapoee ; Wallioh, &c. — Distbib. Sumatra to Borneo. 



Stem 6 in. Leaves 8 by 2\ in., primary nerves horizontal, very numerons, close-; 

 petiole 1-3 in., more or less winged its whole length. Pedimcles 1-2 in., from 1-3 

 penultimate axils ; spikes 1-4 in. Petals ^ in., dotted. Berry |— ^ in. diam. 



Vae. potkaina proper • petiole winged ihionghout its length. 



Vak. lanceolata, Scheff. Myrsin. 93; petiole 2-4 in. not winged, base of leaf 

 narrowed or rounded, pedicels J-J in. — Singapore, Zobb. Disthib. Sumatra, Borneo. 



6. ARDXSXA, Swartz. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves petioled. Flowers hermaphrodite, in axillary 

 or terminal, simple or compound umbels or racemes ; bracts small, deciduous 

 (except in A. involucratci). Calyx 5- (rarely 4-) lobed, (sometimes 3-lobed in 

 A. porosa), persistent, often somewhat enlarged in fruit. Corolla red, white, or 

 spotted, 6-partite ; segments acute (in A. memhranacea emarginate), twisted to 

 the right in bud. Stamens 6 ; filaments very short (except in A. membranacea) ; 

 anthers free, ovate-lanceolate, acute (in A. memhranacea small, round), (in 

 A. porosa opening by terminal pores). Ovary globose, narrowed upwards (in 

 A. membranacea obovate-oblong) ; style cylindric, often much longer than the 

 corolla-lobes, stigma punctiform; ovules few. Fruit globose or subglobose. 

 Seed solitary, globose, albumen pitted or rununated; embryo horizontal. — 

 Species 200, all tropical. 



The Indian species are very uniform in floral structure, except A. involucrata, 

 membranacea saA. porosa, which differ possibly generieally from all the rest — as much 

 perhaps as do Pimelandra. and AmUyanthm. 



* Panicle terminal, 1-2-divided, branches ending in corymbs often contracted 

 almost to umbels, bracts not leaf-like, 



+ Panicle stout, compound-, 



1. A. crassa, Clarke; leaves narrow-oblong acute at both ends, panicle 

 rusty-pubescent, branches and pedicels exceedingly thick, corolla broad short. 



Malacca ; Maingay. — Distbib. Borneo. 



Branches round, stout, ending in a much-flattened panicle. Leaves 8J by 2 in., 

 parallel-sided, subentire, coriaceous, glabrous, primary nerves nearly at right angles 

 to the midrib ; petiole \ in. Panicle 6 in. (including the peduncle) ; branches remote, 

 flattened, again divided ; pedicels ^-^ in., umbelled, thickened upwards ; bracteoles 



