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•3 to '5 in. long with subulate bracts ; ultimate racemes umbellate, 
6-8-flowered ; pedicels slender, short, -1 to -15 in. long; bracteoles 
subulate; buds ovoid, obtuse, glabrous. Calyx-lobes ovate, acute or 
rounded, -05 in. long; margin ciliate, dotted with black glands. Corolla- 
lobes broadly ovate, blunt, glabrous, -1 in. long, with very few dots; tube 
very short. Stamens a little shorter than the corolla-lobes ; anthers 
acute, but gland-dotted behind ; filaments minute, broad. Ovary globose; 
style subulate, longer than the petals. Berry obovoid, smooth, -15 to 
•2 in. in diam. A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 119, Prod. VIII. 
130 ; Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. II. 1026 ; Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. III. 
521, except var. ; Mez Monog. Myrs. 112, fig. 16. A chry sophy lloides, 
Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 574. « 
Penang: Wallich 2274. Malacca: Derry 394. Pahang: Iiidley 
1071. Johobe : Ridley 6438. Singapore: Griffith (K.D.) 3564; 
Maingay (K.D.) 1014 ; Ridley 2817, 8916, 1916(a).— Disteib. Bangka 
Teysmann. 
10. Ardisia ophirensis, Mez Monog. Myrs. 113 (1901). A shrub (?) ; 
branchlets pale brown, flattened, smooth ; innovations minutely 
ferruginous-scaly. Leaves coriaceous ; elliptic, shortly acuminate at 
apex, rounded or somewhat acute at base ; pale and somewhat shining 
on both surfaces, the under covered with minute brown peltate scales ; 
glands scattered, numerous; 3 to 6 in. long, 1-75 to 2-25 in. broad; 
midrib thick, prominent; main-nerves prominent, raised on both surfaces, 
10 to 12 pairs, starting at an angle of about 75° with the midrib, at first 
straight then curving upwards to meet some way from the margin in a 
prominent network; secondary nerves prominent, reticulations trans- 
verse ; petiole -4 to -5 in. long, thick, bordered above by the decurrent 
margins of the blade. Inflorescence a terminal, leafy, angular, tripinnate 
panicle, about 3 to 4 in. long; rachis flexuous, flattened, scaly; peduncles 
squarrose, about 1 in. long, supported by ovate-oblong, reflexed, leafy 
bracts; pedicels -3 in. long, slender, in fruit very spreading. Calyx-lobes 
ovate, acute, -05 in. long, back dotted with prominent large glands. 
Corolla-lobes elliptic-ovate, rather oblique, shortly connate, nervose ; 
glands few, near the apex, black. Stamens rather shorter than the 
corolla-lobes ; anthers ovate, large, not glandular, apiculate ; filaments 
short, slender. Ovary ovoid, glabrous ; style long, subulate, exsert. 
Berry black when dry, T5 in. in diam., with prominent glands. A. 
tuberculata var. ophirensis, Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. III. 522. 
Malacca : Hullett 754 ; Ridley 621 ; Miller 9. On the top of Mount 
Ophir. 
11. Ardisia labisi^folia, King & Gamble, n. sp. A small tree ; 
branchlets thick, slightly flattened, smooth, glabrous below, lepidote- 
