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ovate, apiculate, pubescent at tip ; filaments and lower part of anthers 
attached about half-way up the corolla-lobes. Ovary rounded, conical ; 
style short in $ , oblique and with long channelled stigma in $ . 
Berry globose, - 1 in. in diam., glandular, smooth, tipped with the 
persistent style. DC. Prod. VIII. 96 ; Miq. PI. Jungh. 189, and FI. 
Ind. Bat. II. 1015 ; Scheff. Myrs. 47 ; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. V. 234. 
Myrsine capitellata, Wall. var. avenis Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. III. 
512 {in part)', Stapf in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, IV. 199. Ardisia avenis, 
Blume Bijdr. 691. Bapanea avenis, Mez Monog. Myrs. 357. 
Singapore : Ridley 253. — Distrib. Java, Celebes, Borneo. 
2. Myrsine Porteriana, Wall. Cat. 6525 (1829). A shrub or small 
tree ; branches grey, rough ; branchlets slender, angled when dry, leaf- 
buds lanceolate. Leaves chartaceous, entire ; oblong-lanceolate, bluntly 
acute and slightly emarginate at apex, cuneately narrowed at base, 
glabrous, glandular dotted, especially along the margin, and often 
glandular-lineolate, black or greyish when dry ; 1-5 to 3'5 in. long, 
■75 to 1-25 in. broad ; midrib prominent beneath, impressed above ; main- 
nerves 8 to 12 pairs, the lowest pair running parallel to the midrib 
and there joined by the rest, not always easily seen ; secondary nerves 
few, slender, reticulations minute ; petiole slender, -2 to -4 in. long, 
channelled above by the decurrent and almost connivent, slightly 
fimbriate, edges of the blade. Flowers in compact sessile umbels on 
the summit of a short thick cone-like bracteate arrested branch about 
•1 to -3 in. long ; bracts ovate, bracteoles oblong, blunt, ciliate ; pedicels 
angled - 1 in. long ; flower-buds ovate, flowers greenish-white, usually 
dioecious, 5-merous. Calyx-lobes ovate acute, '05 in. long, ciliate, 
marked with prominent dark round or lineolate glands ; tube as long as 
lobes. Corolla-lobes oblong obtuse, - 1 to "15 in. long, minutely pubescent 
on the margins, marked by prominent dark rounded and lineolate glands, 
connate to one-fourth of their length, revolute in flower. Stamens 
inserted on the corolla, the filaments and lower half of the anthers 
■adnate with it, those of $ flowers ovate apiculate, those of ? flowers 
sagittate; in open flowers exsert, longer than the revolute lobes. Ovary 
ovoid, glabrous, <? flowers with a short straight style, ? flowers with an 
oblique style and oblique folded stigma. Berry globose, glabrous, 
T in. in diam., dark blue when fresh, pale when dry, striate from 
■the elongated vertical glands. A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 106, 
Prod. VIII. 95. M. capitellata var. avenis, Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. 
III. 512 {in part). Bapanea Porteriana, Mez Monog. Myrs. 358. 
Penang : Porter in Wallich 6525 ; Maingay (K.D.) 1005 ; Curtis 
1013, 3728, on Government Hill, road to Crag. Perak: Bidley 2992; 
Wray 678, 1537 ; King's Collector 5001, usually at 5,000 feet eleva- 
