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caducous braeteoles ; flowers 8 to 12 ; pedicels slender below, flattened 
above, twisted and curved, -3 to -4 in. long ; buds ovoid. Calyx-lobes 
ovate, acute, -1 in. long, prominently black-gland-dotted. Corolla-lobes 
waxy, reddish or purple, ovate, '15 to - 2 in. long, sparsely gland-dotted. 
Stamens nearly as long as corolla-lobes ; filaments very short, thick ; 
anthers ovate, acute, connective much gland-dotted on back. Ovary 
rounded ; style short, slender, glabrous. Berry globose, red, rugose, 
•3 in. in diatn., prominently gland-dotted when dry. 
Perak: Wray 438, 2795, 3280, 4051; Scortechini 418; King’s 
Collector 1888, 3631, 6938, 7514, in dense jungle on rich soil, both in 
low-level localities and up to 4,000 feet in the mountains ; one specimen, 
rather more slender, thinner and more glabrous, from the top of rocks 
(K.C. 7514). 
K.C. No. 6938 from mountains at 3,000 to 4,000 feet, has the main-nerves nearly at 
right angles to the midrib, while other specimens have it at 60° or even 45° ; these are, 
however, intermediate, and all that can be said is that the character is a variable one. 
The species seems to resemble the A. macrocarpa, Wall., of Northern India, in its habit 
of growth. 
36. Ardisia minor, King & Gamble, n. sp. Apparently a short 
(12 to 18 in. high) treelet or undershrub ; lower part of stem with side 
rootlets ; stem • 2 to ‘25 in. thick, rusty-pubescent, dark brown. Leaves 
coriaceous ; elliptic, long caudate-acuminate at apex, attenuate or 
cuueate at base often unequally ; margins recurved, very shallowly 
crenate, the crenatures with large prominent glands ; glabrous on both 
surfaces but somewhat scaly ; 5 to 7 in. long, 2 to 2-5 in. broad ; midrib 
slender ; main-nerves about 15 pairs, starting at an angle of about 50° 
with the midrib, and thence straight to the margin where they or their 
branches end in the crenature glands ; secondary nerves similar to the 
main-nerves, reticulations oblique, all raised beneath when dry ; petiole 
thick, rugose, rusty-pubescent, - 7 to 1 in. long, winged by the decurrent 
margins of the blade. Inflorescence of very short, rusty-pubescent, 
umbellate racemes of about 5 to 6 flowers from the axils of the upper- 
most leaves ; peduncle scarcely -2 in. long, thick ; racemes about -2 in. 
long ; braeteoles many, ovate or oblong, recurved ; pedicels thick, 
•3 to -4 in. long, flattened, recurved. Calyx-lobes ovate acute, -1 to 
■15 in. broad, glabrous, prominently gland-dotted, nearly free. Corolla- 
lobes ovate acute, - 2 in. long, glabrous, dotted prominently with large 
black glands. Stamens shorter than corolla-lobes ; filaments very 
short, thick ; anthers oblong acuminate, the connective gland-dotted 
at the back, -1 in. long. Ovary rounded, glabrous ; style - 1 in. long, 
subulate. Berry not known. 
