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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
2, Myksine, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves entire or serrate, often thick, usually 
pellucid-punctate. Flowers polygamous or dioecious, fascicled, axillary 
or on very short branches, pedicels short with many imbricate bracts. 
Calyx small, lobes 4 to 5 persistent. Corolla 4-5-lobed, the lobes 
imbricate in bud, recurved in flower. Stamens 4 to 5 ; filaments short, 
inserted at the base of the corolla-lobes ; anthers short, ovate ; 
staminodes none. Ovary free, globose or ovoid ; style usually short, 
cylindric or angular ; stigma capitate or 2-5-lobed ; ovules few or 
many, immersed in the placenta. Fruit a small, dry or somewhat 
fleshy, berry, 1-seeded. Seed solitary, globose, sessile, hollowed at 
the base ; albumen pitted ; embryo elongate, cylindric or curved, 
horizontal. — Distrib. Species about 80, chiefly tropical, a few in 
Japan, extra-tropical Africa, Australia and New Zealand. All our 
species belong to Mez’ genus Rapanea. 
Arrested branches bearing the umbels very short, -1 in. long or 
under : — 
Leaf-nerves and reticulations obscure, leaves small, under 2-5 in. 
Leaf-nerves and reticulations visible, leaves usually over 2-5 in : — 
Leaves under 4 in. long, chartaceous, blackish when dry ; 
pedicels short, - X in. long 
Leaves over 4 in. long, coriaceous, reddish when dry ; pedicels 
over '15 in. long 
Arrested branches bearing the umbels '3 in. long or more : — 
Leaves rounded at apex ; berry -2 in. in diam. 
Leaves emarginate at apex ; berry 3 in. in diam. . . 
1. M. avenis. 
2. M. Porteriana. 
3. M. peralcensis. 
4. M. Wrayi. 
5. M. umbellulata. 
1. Myrsine avenis, A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 107 (1834). 
A small tree ; branches pale, rounded ; branchlets wrinkled when dry, 
faintly ferruginous-tomentose, leaf-buds long acuminate. Leaves 
entire, chartaceous ; oblong-lanceolate, bluntly acute at apex, acutely 
narrowed at base, glabrous, marked with resinous often very con- 
spicuous lineoles and dots along the margin especially near the apex, 
margins usually recurved; 1 to 2-5 in. long, -5 to '75 in. broad; mid- 
rib prominent, impressed above ; main-nerves very obscure as are the 
reticulations; petiole - 2 in. long, slender, edged with the ciliate margins 
of the decurrent blade. Floivers in compact sessile 2-5-flowered 
umbels on very short thick arrested branches ; bracts oblong 
acute; pedicels about - 1 in. long, angular; flower-buds ovate, flowers 
5-merous. Calyx-lobes triangular, acute, ciliate, with few round 
glandular dots ; tube as long as lobes. Corolla-lobes imbricate, elliptic, 
pubescent on the margins, sparsely round-gland-dotted, connate for 
about one-third of their length. Stamens as long as corolla-lobes ; anthers 
