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wrinkled. Fruit a depressed, obscurely 5-angled berry, -2 in. in diam., 
pericarp very smooth inside. 
Kedah : on Lankawi Island, Ridley 8313. 
8. Ardisia andamanica, Kurz For. FI. II. 108 (1877) and in Journ. As. 
Soc. Beng. XLYI. ii. 225. A small or medium-sized evergreen shrub 
reaching 15 feet high and 2 in. in diam. ; branches slender with reddish- 
brown bark, striate when dry, branchlets glabrous. Leaves entire, mem- 
branous ; oblong lanceolate, narrowly long acuminate at apex, cuneate 
at base ; glabrous on both surfaces but with many scattered glandular 
dots and occasional peltate scales; 3 to 6 in. long, -75 to 1 - 75 in. broad; 
midrib slender; main-nerves about 20 pairs, very thin and inconspicuous, 
at about 60° with the midrib, at first straight then arching upwards 
to and along the margin ; petiole -3 to - 5 in. long, channelled above. 
Inflorescence a loose terminal panicle 2 to 3 in. long, with few slender 
umbel-like racemes on -3 to - 5 in. long, squarrose peduncles; pedicels 
slender, -3 in. ; bracteoles small, ovate, deciduous. Calyx-lobes acute, 
triangular, -05 in. long, minutely ciliate at the edges, dotted with black 
glands ; tube rather shorter than lobes. Corolla-lobes ovate, acute, 
■15 in. long, glabrous, with inconspicuous nerves and few scattered 
round or oblong glands. Stamens a little shorter than corolla-lobes; 
anthers ovate, apiculate, '1 in. long, glabrous on the back or with few 
black glands ; filaments -05 in. Ovary rounded, glabrous ; style filiform, 
long exsert, -15 in. long. Berry round or slightly pyriform, smooth, 
•3 in. in diam. Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. III. 521 ; Mez Monog. 
Myrs. 110. Ardisia neriifolia, A. DC. Prod. VIII. 127 in part (not of 
Wall.), Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. t. 8 (fig. only). 
Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3570 ; Hullett 830 ; Stoliczka. Perak : 
Ridley 9718; Wray 867, 943, 971, 1033; King’s Collector 5692, 8064. 
Johobe: Ridley 3717. — Distrib. Andamans, Mergui. 
9. Ardisia tuberculata, Wall. Cat. 2274 (1829). A shrub, reaching 
10 feet in height; branchlets smooth, stout, reddish, uppermost flattened, 
glabrous. Leaves entire, coriaceous ; elliptic, bluntly acuminate at apex, 
attenuate or rounded at the base ; glabrous and shining above, 
covered beneath with rather deciduous peltate scales, dark when dry ; 
3 to 6 in. long, 1 to 2 in. broad ; midrib prominent ; main-nerves obscure, 
about 15 pairs, starting at an angle of about 75° from the midrib, then 
arched upwards to and along the margin ; secondary nerves more slender, 
reticulations obscure ; petiole - 3 to -5 in. long, thick, rough, winged by 
the decurrent margins of the blade. Inflorescence a lax, leafy, terminal, 
tripinnate, 3 to 6 in. long, panicle; rachis flexuous, flattened, often 
scaly; primary peduncles squarrose, -6 to 1 in. long, supported 
by ovate acuminate leafy bracts ; secondary peduncles also squarrose. 
