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obscure ; petiole - 3 in. long, thick, winged by the decurrent margins of 
the blade, which are often erose or wrinkled. Inflorescence of axillary 
umbellate racemes of about 8 flowers each, racemes shorter than the 
leaves, about 2 in. long ; common peduncle about 1 in. long, usually 
recurved ; pedicels -3 in. long, enlarged in fruit to -5 in. and then 
clavate thickened ; bracteoles oblong, obtuse, deciduous ; flowers rose- 
coloured, buds conica -4 in. long. Calyx-lobes orbicular, -1 in. in 
diam., ciliate, edges somewhat scarious, elsewhere thickly dotted 
with black glands, tube rather longer than lobes. Coi'olla-lobes ovate 
acuminate, oblique, unequal, lineolate and much gland-dotted, -3 in. 
long ; tube short. Stamens nearly as long as corolla-lobes ; anthers 
ovate, acute, united in a cone, opening longitudinally and obscurely 
septate in the cells ; filaments short, on broad bases confluent into a 
ring adherent to the corolla-lobes. Ovary sub-globose, ending in a 
subulate style -3 in. long. Berry globose, depressed, -2 in. in diam., 
smooth, bright red, turning purplish-black when ripe; black glands 
many, small. Kurz For. FI. II, 110 and Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. II. 
226. A. obovata, Bl. Bijdr. 688 ; DC. Prod. VIII. 132. A. humilis, 
Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. III. 529 (not of Vahl. and in part only) ; 
Mez Monog. Myrs. 127, fig. 20, A-B. A. umbellata, Boxb. Hort. 
Beng. 16 ; FI. Ind. I. 582 ; FI. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 273 ; Lodd. 
Bot. Cat. t. 531. A. solanacea, Wall. Cat. 2283a (part), 2283d (not 
of Boxb.). A. polycephala, Wight 111. Ind. Bot. t. 145 (not of Wall.). 
Climacandra obovata, Miq. PI. Jungh. I. 199, FI. Ind. Bat. II. 1030 ; 
Seheff. Myrs. 05 ; Koord & Val. Bijdr. V. 271. C. littoralis, Kurz 
in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XL. II. 68. 
Penang : Curtis 217 ; Phillips. Perak : Wray 1866, 2373 ; Scor- 
techini 1053 ; King's Collector 4960. Malacca : Griffith ; Maingay 
(K.D.) 1010 ; Hervey. Kelantan : Bidley. Pahang : Ridley 1638. 
Singapobe : Hullett 331, 649 ; Cantley 153. — Distrib. Malay Islands 
and eastwards to South China and the Philippines ; westwards to 
Ceylon (C.P. 1803) and Travancore (Wight 1767). 
Climacandra multiflora, Miq., and C. salicifolia, Miq., are probably only varieties of 
this species, which seems to be a coast shrub only. 
22. Ardisia Kunstleri, King & Gamble, n. sp. A shrub or small 
tree, usually 6 to 10 feet high, rising sometimes to 20 feet, and with a 
stem about 2 to 3 in. in diam. ; branchlets thick, dark brown, uppermost 
and innovations rusty-pubescent; leaf-buds lanceolate. Leaves coriaceo- 
chartaceous ; elliptic, or elliptic-oblong, shortly acuminate at apex, 
cuneate at base ; minutely pubescent or scaly on both surfaces, after- 
wards glabrate ; entire or obscurely undulate-crenate on the margins 
