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then producing an elegant network; under-surface with brown glandular 
scales ; petiole 1 to 3 in., enlarged at the base, often minutely rusty- 
pubescent. Flowers pink, in a spike-like, long-stalked, ferruginous- 
tomentose panicle of small corymbose bracteate clusters ; peduncles 
of corymbs 1 in. long or shorter, sometimes none ; bract linear-subulate, 
•05 to 1 in. long. ; pedicels -05 to 1 in., slender, with minute bracteoles. 
Calyx-lohes triangular, acute, - 025 in. long, densely glandular. Corolla- 
lobes ovate, with linear glands, glabrous. Stamens infolded in the 
corolla ; filaments very short ; anthers oblong-linear, apiculate, with 
several hard round or linear black warts on the back. Ovary rounded, 
pubescent, ending in a subulate angular style with minute notched 
stigma. Fruit a globose red berry, about -15 in. in diam., ribbed 
and with prominent elongate glands, surmounted by the persistent 
style. Mez Monog. Myrs. 171 (var. genuina). L. pothoina, Lindl. in 
Bot. Beg. 31. t. 48 ; Clarke in Hook. f. El. Br. Ind. III. 518 ; Stapf 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, IV. 200 ; Ardisia pumila, Blume Bijdr. 
688 ; A. DO. Prod. VIII. 137 ; Miq. PI. Jungh. 199 and El. Ind. 
Bat. II. 1028 ; Scheff. Myrs. 92. A ? spicata, Wall. Cat. 2273 ; 
A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 135. 
Singapore or Penang : Walker, 165. Penang : Curtis 1192 ; 
Kunstler 1159. Perak : Scortechini ; Wray 753a. Malacca : Maingay 
1013 (K.D.) ; Stoliczka. Singapoee : Bidley 1804. — Disteib. Java : 
Forbes 238, 474. In dense moist forests on the lower slopes of hills. 
Var. lanceolata, Scheff. l.c. 93. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, 
somewhat rounded at base ; not, or very slightly, decurrent ; blade 5 to 
8 in. long, by 1'5 to 3-5 in. broad; petiole 2 to 5 in. long not winged. 
Inflorescence more slender, bracts often longer than the peduncle of the 
corymb. Clarke in Hook. f. El. Br. Ind. III. 518; Mez Monog. Myrs. 172. 
L. pothoina, N. E. Brown ( non Lindl.) in 111. Hort. XXXII. 95 tab. 561. 
Penang : Hullett 201. Pahang : Goodenough 2799. Singapore : 
Lobb 61; Kurz ; T. Anderson 196. — Disteib. Sumatra, Korthals ; 
Borneo, Motley 1250, Haviland. 
Var. alata, Scheff. l.c. 93. Leaves thin ashy-green above, dark 
green below, elliptic oblong, rounded at top or obtusely acuminate ; 
gradually or suddenly narrowed into a broad wing decurrent on the 
petiole ; crenate glands and scales few or none ; 6 to 16 in. long, 2 to 
4 in. broad. Inflorescence with the corymbs usually more closely 
congested and on a shorter peduncle ; flowers somewhat smaller, bracts 
usually longer than the corymb peduncle, flowers white or pink. Mez 
Monog. Myrs. 172. L. alata, N. E. Brown in 111. Hort. XXXIII. 123, 
t. 605. 
Perak : Wray 753b, 824, 2482, 2737 ; Scortechini ; King’s Collector 
