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long, rusty-villous. Inflorescence a sessile or short-peduncled, more or 
less rusty-villous, umbellate raceme at the end of the main branchlets 
or at the ends of long-peduncled axillary 2-leaved branchlets ; bracts 
ovate-lanceolate, -1 to -2 in. long, deciduous ; pedicels "3 to ‘4 in. long, 
secund ; buds conical. Calyx-lobes pink, linear-oblong or lingulate, 
obtuse or slightly acute, -25 to '3 in. long, -075 in. broad, glabrous to 
thickly rusty-villous, apex often recurved, glandular lines and dots 
scattered ; tube exceedingly short. Corolla-lobes pale pink, ovate-acute 
or -acuminate, -25 to -3 in. long, prominently dotted with round or 
oblong glands, much twisted in bud ; tube short. Stamens shorter 
than the petals, - 2 in. long ; anthers ovate, acuminate, dehiscing by 
wide pores in the upper half ; filaments very short. Ovary globose, 
crowned by a slender '2 in. long style, the base of the style and top of 
ovary minutely pubescent. Berry globose, ‘25 in. in diam., bright red, 
sparingly pubescent. A. DC. Prod. VIII. 136; Wall. Cat. 2280a ; Miq. 
PI. Jungh. 191, PL Ind. Bat. II. 1017 ; Scheff. Myrs. 90 ; Kurz in Journ. 
As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii . 227 and Por. FI. II. 113 ; Clarke in Hook, 
f. PI. Br. Ind. III. 525 var. excepted ; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. V. 253. 
A. vestita, Wall, in Eoxb. PI. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 274 ; A. DC. 
l.c. ; Miq. l.c. ; Mez Monog. Myrs. 141. A. mollis, Bl. Bijdr. 689. 
A. tavoyana, A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 125. 
Penang : Maingay (K.D.) 1011 ; Ridley 9357 ; Curtis 1597. 
Perak : Scortechini 638 ; Wray 151, 862, 2967, 3149 ; King's Collector 
1819, 3138, 6104, 6448, 7915, 10052. Pahang: Ridley 2176. 
Selangor : Ridley 1558 ; Curtis. Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3588 ; 
Hervey ; Ridley ; Cuming 2390. Singapore : Ridley, 2833, '2816. — 
Distrib. Burma, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and eastwards to Tonkin 
and Hainan. 
Var. glabrata, Kurz l.c. Leaves, at least when full grown, glabrous. 
Calyx glabrous or nearly so. Stapf in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, IV. 
204. A. glabrata, Bl. Bijdr. 692; A. DC. Prod. VIII. 136; Miq. PI. 
Ind. Bat. II. 1022. 
Perak : Ridley 2899; Wray 2801, 3414; King’s Collector 949, 4612, 
6188, 6255, 7696 ; Scortechini 315. — Distrib. Java, Sumatra, 
Borneo. 
Ridley’s 5510 from Kedah seems to be a form of this with smaller leaves and 
shorter ealyx-lobes, but can hardly be separated as a second variety. 
34. Ardisia VIRENS, Kurz Por. PI. II. 575 (1877), and Journ. As. 
Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. 226. A small glabrous shrub ; branchlets slender, 
pale, somewhat compressed and twisted. Leaves membranous, oblong 
or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, cuneate at base ; faintly 
