Ardisia.] lxxxvui. mtrsine^. (0. B. Clarke.) 521 



§§ Leave) entire or obseureh/ erenulate. 



9. A. amplezicaulls, Bedd. le. PI. Ind. Or. 1. 170, and JV. %&. Anal. 

 PI. t. 18, fig. 3 ; leaves short-petioled oblong acuminate base rounded, panicle 

 simple or sparingly compound, pedicels umbelled minutely rusty. 



Wtnaad ; Tin-ihoot Hills, alt. 4000 ft., and Teavancoee ; Beddome. 



A shrub. Leaves 6 by 1 J in., broadest above the middle, acuminate, glabrous, 

 membranous, primary nerves inarching at a distance from the margin, prominently 

 dotted near the margin ; petiole ^-i in. Panicle flowers and fruits as in A. zeylanica. 

 — Though A. zeylanica has stronaly toothed leaves narrowed to the petiole, it is, 

 perhaps, only a form of A. amplexieaidis. 



10. A. diverg'ens, Poxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey ^ Wall. ii. 276; leaves 

 elliptic or oblong, drying red-brown rhomboid or almost round at the base, panicle 

 subsimple minutely rusty.* Wall. Cat. 2269; A. BC. Prodr. viii. 130. A. 

 punctata, Jack; Roxh. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey ^ Wall. ii. 275 {not of Lindl). A. 

 punctulosa, Dietr. Syn. PI. i. 61.5. 



Pbnano ; Jack, Maingay. — Distkib. Moluccas. 



A small tree, 20 ft. ; branchlets slender, cylindric, much divided. Leaves 4^ by 

 1^ in., subobtusely acuminate, glabrous, primary nerves arched, prominently dotted 

 especially near the margin; petiole | in.. Paaiioles 3 by 2 in.; bracts small or 

 deciduous ; pedicels ^-^ in., subumbelled. Buds ^ in., and as much broad. Cahjx- 

 lohes 3g in., round. — A. javamca (A. DC. Prod. viii. 130) only differs by havmg 

 the branchlets upwards and panicle more rusty-pubescent. 



11. Ai Gardner!, Clarke; leaves elliptic or obovate-lanceolate narrowed 

 at both ends drying black, panicle minutely-rusty, pedicels umbeUed. A. diver- 

 gens, Thwaites Enum. PI. Zeyl. 174; A. DC. Prodr. viii. XWipm-tly. 



Ci5Ti.0N, frequent ; Gardner, Thwaites, &e. 



Very near A. divergens and perhaps the Ceylon form of it. Leaves acute at the 

 base. Calyx-4eeih ovate, subacute, rather larger than in A. divergens. Flowers alto- 

 gether as those of A. zeylanica (of which Thwaites reckons it a variety), and of 

 A..C 



12. A. andamanlca, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 108, and in Journ. As. Soc. 

 1877, pt. ii. 225 ; glabrous, leaves narrowly lanceolate base cuneate or rhom- 

 boid, panicles thin subsimple, pedicels racemed. A, neriifolia, A. DC. Prodr: 

 viii. 127 partly (not of Wall.). 



Maiat PENiNSciiA, from Mergui to Malacca, frequent ; Andaman Islands ; Griffith, 

 Kwrz, &e. 



A shrub, 2-4 feet (Kmrz"). Leaves 5 by 1 -ly in., acute, primary nerves not prominent, 

 arching near the margin or not at all, sparsely dotted ; petiole \ in. Panicles 4 in., 

 often divaricate or depauperated ; bracts or deciduous ; pedicels J-J in. Calyx- 

 lobes ^ in., round, glabrous. Corolla ^ by J in. — This is not near A. oblonga, A. 

 DC. (as Knrz supposed), but is that form of A. neriifolia, A. DC, which is said to have 

 terminal inflorescence, and which in fact specifically differs from the North Eengal 

 A. neriifoUa of Wallich. A. DCs figure {Trans, Limm. Soc. xvii. t. 8) represents A. 

 andamanica, while most of the description (" panicles lateral peduncles and pedicels 

 somewhat velvety ") can apply only to neriifoUa. 



Vab. ^usa ; leaves elliptic acuminate, panicle straggling, pedicels J-| in., buds 

 J by J in. — Andamans ; PortMouat, Kurz. — Kraz has issued this unnamed, as though 

 hei,supposed it specifically difiTerent from his A. andamanica. 



13. A. tuberculata, ^a2/. Co^. 2274 ; leaves coriaceous elliptic narrowed 

 to both ends, panicles compound glabrous or rusty-scaly, flowers numerous 

 small. A. DC. in Tram. Linn. Soc. xvii. 119, and Prodr. viii. ISO. A. chryso- 

 phylloides, Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. Suppl. 574. 



