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14 to 20 pairs, irregular, -4 to -5 in. apart, starting at an angle of about 
60°, then slightly arching to and along the margin ; petiole '4 to -6 in. 
long, pubescent, wrinkled, slightly channelled above. Inflorescence 
of small, axillary, sessile or shortly peduncled, umbels or corymbs; 
peduncles -1 in. long, flowers 6 to 8 ; pedicels slender, pubescent, striate, 
•4 in. long; bracts minute, subulate, densely pubescent, deciduous. 
Calyx-lobes ovate, rounded, pubescent, -2 in. long, slightly overlapping 
to the right, ciliate, gland-dotted especially near the tip. Corolla-lobes 
boat-shaped, broadly ovate, shortly acuminate, -3 in. long, glabrous, 
white, faintly nerved, dots very few, revolute in flower; tube short. 
Stamens a little shorter than corolla-lobes; anthers ovate, cuspidate- 
acuminate, much gland-dotted and warted at the back on the connective ; 
filaments thick. Ovary rounded, glabrous, style subulate, as long as 
the anthers. Berry -2 to -4 in. in diam., globose, glabrous, pale. 
Myrsine pachysandra, Wall, in Eoxb. FI. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 
297 ; Wall. Cat. 2284 ; A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 111. 
Pimelandra Wallichii, A. DC. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 2. XVI. 88; Prod. 
VIII. 106 ; Deless. Ic. Sel. V. 14. t. 31 ; Scheff. Myrs. 94 ; Miq. PI. 
Ind. Bat. II. 1029 ; Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. III. 531. 
Penang : Wallich 2284 ; Porter ; Curtis 1156, 3164, 3181, 3737. 
Malacca : Griffith (HD.) 3597 ; Maingay (K.D.) 1006. Perak : Wray 
1358 ; King’s Collector 5995, 7194. — Distrib. Borneo (?). 
2. Ardisia Teysmanniana, Scheff. in Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. XXXI. 
368 and in Flora 253 (1870). A large shrub or small tree ; branchlets 
brown, with wavy longitudinal lines passing downwards from the sides 
of the bases of the petioles, lenticels numerous, innovations densely 
ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves entire, chartaceous ; oblong or slightly 
obovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, alternate 
and sometimes abruptly rounded at base ; glabrous above, densely ferru- 
ginous-tomentose beneath; glands very numerous, small, evenly dis- 
tributed over the whole under surface ; 6 to 11 in. long, l - 5 to 
3 in. broad ; midrib thick, prominent beneath ; main-nerves 25 to 30 
pairs, -3 to - 4 in. apart, starting at an angle of 60°, at first straight, 
then curving to meet in the margin in a looped nerve, raised beneath 
as are the few secondary nerves and the many oblique reticulations ; 
petiole very thick, -5 to -6 in. long, usually bordered by the decurrent 
margins of the blade which are again revolute. Inflorescence of 
axillary pedunculate umbels or corymbs ; peduncles in flower - 1 to 
•2 in. long, in fruit sometimes up to - 5 in., 4-5-flowered ; pedicels 
slender, -4 in. long, densely rusty -pubescent, striate ; bracteoles 
linear-subulate, deciduous. Calyx-lobes ovate, rounded, pubescent, 
•1 in. long, ciliate. Corolla-lobes ovate-acuminate, '2 in. long, softly 
