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Eoxb. PI. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 275 ( not of Lindl.). A. punctulosa, 
D. Dietr. Syn. PI. I. 615; Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. II. 1025. 
Penang : Jack ; Wallich 2269 ; Maingay (K.D.) 1020 ; Curtis 1769. 
19. Akdisia sumatbana, Miq. PI. Jungh. I. 195 (1853), PI. Ind. 
Bat. II. 1018, and Suppl. 247. A large shrub or small tree, reaching 15 to 
20 feet in height and 3 to 4 in. in diam. of stem ; branches pale brown, 
smooth ; branchlets minutely ferruginous- scaly. Leaves chartaceous ; 
elliptic-oblong or -obovate, rather suddenly acute at apex, acute or cuneate 
at base ; entire, glabrous ; glands large, frequent near the margin ; 3 to 6 
in. long, 1-5 to 2-5 in. broad ; midrib slender, prominent beneath, im- 
pressed above ; main-nerves 12 to 15 pairs, irregularly spaced, starting 
at an angle of about 50° with the midrib, curving upwards to and along 
the margin ; secondary nerves and innovations indistinct ; petiole -3 to 
•5 in. long, bordered above by the decurrent, often erose, margins of 
the blade. Inflorescence a compact, shortly pyramidal, 3 to 4 in. long, 
squarrosely bipinnate panicle ; common peduncle none or scarcely -5 in. 
long; bracts minute, triangular; branch peduncles '7 to 1 in. long, 
minutely ferruginous-scaly as is the rachis ; pedicels -2 to -3 in. long, 
slender ; buds ovoid, conical ; flowers waxy-white, pedicels and rachis 
pink. Calyx-lobes orbicular, -1 in broad, ciliate, with searious margins, 
much overlapping ; glandular dots very few, scattered. Corolla-lobes 
shortly connate, ovate, acute, much twisted, ‘15 in. long ; margins thin, 
denticulate ; glands few, large and brown. Stamens about two-thirds 
the length of the corolla-lobes ; anthers ovate-acute, - 1 in. long, a few 
large black glands on the back. Ovary ovoid, glabrous ; style subulate, 
•15 in. long. Berry bright red at first afterwards black, globcse, shining, 
•2 in. in diam., smooth, faintly striate. Seheff. Myrs. 84 ; Koord. & 
Val. Bijdr. V. 268; Mez Monog. Myrs. 121. 
Pebak : King’s Collector 771, 5639, 10836. — Distbib. Sumatra, 
Beccari 325, 724 ; Forbes 2083 &e. ; Java. 
20. Ardisia lanceolata, Boxb. Hort. Beng. 85 (1814), FI. Ind. 1. 583, 
and PI. Iud. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 275. A large glabrous shrub or small 
tree, reaching 15 to 25 feet in height ; branches cylindric, pale, smooth ; 
branchlets sometimes fugaciously ferruginous-scaly. Leaves coriaceous ; 
elliptic-oblong or -obovate, shortly acuminate at apex, long-cuneate 
at base ; entire or sometimes slightly crenate near the apex ; glabrous 
on both surfaces ; glandular dots large scattered, more numerous near 
the margins ; 6 to 11 in. long, 2 to 3'5 in. broad ; midrib prominent 
beneath, impressed above; main-nerves 12 to 15 pairs, oblique, starting at 
an angle of about 50° with the midrib, and at first more or less parallel, 
then arching upwards to join in an irregular intramarginal nerve ; 
secondary nerves similar but shorter, reticulations scarcely prominent, 
