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53. MYRSINEiK. 



[Ardisia. 



1. A. humilis, Vahl. Symb. III. 40 ; Fl. Br. I. iii. 529 ; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 137 ; Brandis For. Fl. 287. A. elliptica, Bedd. Fl. Syl. 

 138. Dihna, Vern. ; Bugri, M. ; Ghitmitlmune gidda, havalad, K. 



Tbrougliout India from the Himalayas to Ceylon. 



In the evergreen forests, tbrougbout the Konkan and lS"ortli Kaoara, 

 usually along the banks of nalas and streams, common. Fl. Apl.-May. 

 Fr. ripe Aug. 



A large shrub or small tree, 4-6 in. in diam. at base, 30 ft. high, 

 much branched. Bark grey, thin, corky, underneath the green cell 

 layer is a white cellular tissue with glands filled with a red gum ; inner 

 bark alternate thin layers of lighter and darker brown tissue. Wood 

 reddish-grey, moderately hard. Pores very small, equally distributed. 

 Medullary rays broad or moderately brop^d, wavy. Weighs about 56 lbs. 

 to the cub. ft. " Used as fuel " (Gamble), Albumen white horny. 



A. parviflora, Talb. sp. nov. A small, erect, branched shrub. Leaves 

 obovate, acate, base cuneate, distantly crenate, pellucid-punctate, coria- 

 ceous, blade 4-5-3 by 1*75-1 in. ; petiole '25 in. Flowers small, § — i in. 

 across, in simple, pednncled, axillary or terminal umbels, about half the 

 length" of the leaves. Corolla small, white, not pink or spotted. Fruit 

 red, size of a pea, globose, not striate. This species was said to be exactly 

 like .4. polycephala, Wall, in Herb. Wight., which species was reduced 

 to A. humilis, in the Fl. Br. I. by C. B. Clarke. The two plants (when seen 

 growing) look very different and are in my opinion specifically distinct. 



In the evergreen scrub jungles near the coast in the Karwar sub-divi- 

 sion of North Kdnara, Fl. B. S. Fr. C S. 



5. -EGICEBAS, Gsertn. 



A shrub or small tree. Leaves obovate^ coriaceous^ l-nerved. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite, white^ in sessile umbels. Calyx-lobes 5 

 imbricate. Corolla segments 5, acute, twisted to the right in bud 

 Stamens 5 ; fidaments linear, hairy at the base. Ovary oblong, 

 narrowed into a filiform style ; stigma small ; ovules many^ immersed 

 in a central globose placenta. Fruit cylindric, curved 1 -seeded, de- 

 hiscent. Seed exalbuminous, germinating within the pericarp; radicle 

 inferior, long, enlarged at the base ; cotyledons very short. 



M. majus, Gsertn. Frucfc. 1. 216. t. 46. fig. 1 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 533 ; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 137 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 139. Kanjala, M. ; chawir, Snd. 



Sea coasts of India from Sind to Singapore. Common near the sea 

 coast of Kanara and the Konkan on marshy ground and along creeks. 

 Fl. C. S. Fr. R. S. 



A small, evergreen tree or large shrub. Bark grey. Wood hard, close- 

 grained. No annual rings. Pores small, uniformly distributed. Med. 

 rays short, scanty, broad and moderately broad. 



