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down the stem, the racemes - 1 to ’15 in. long; bracteoles ovate, searious, 
conspicuously black-gland-dotted and ciliate; pedicels short, -1 to -15 in. 
long, stout ; buds ovoid ; flowers waxy-white. Calyx-lobes 5, ovate, 
acute, ciliate, hyaline, with conspicuous black dots, ’05 in. long; tube 
as long as lobes. Corolla-lobes, ovate, blunt, '1 in. long, conspicuously 
black-gland-dotted ; tube very short. Stamens nearly as long as corolla- 
lobes ; filaments short, thick ; anthers ovate-lanceolate, long apieulate, 
the connective studded on the back with large black glands. Ovary 
rounded, style filiform as long as corolla. Berry not seen. 
Peeak : on limestone rocks in open jungle at 500 to 800 feet, King’s 
Collector 5838. 
We have dedicated this well-marked species to C. Mez, whose Monograph of 
Mibsinm has done so much for the elucidation of the Natural Order, and whose 
study of Ardisia in particular has been of so much help to us. 
39. Abdisia Bidleyi, King & Gamble, n. sp. A slender shrub or treelet, 
reaching 10 to 15 feet in height and about 1 in. in diam. ; branchlets dark 
brown, slender, minutely ferruginous-pubescent ; leaf-buds lanceolate, 
densely ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves membranous ; oblong-lanceo- 
late, long acuminate at apex, acuminate or somewhat rounded at base ; 
piominently crenate, the crenatures usually regular, margin slightly 
recurved ; glabrous on both surfaces ; glandular dots few, scattered ; 
4 to 8 in. long, l - 25 to 1'75 in. broad; midrib slender; main-nerves 
about 12 pairs, at irregular angles and spaces, ending in the crenatures 
of the margin ; secondary nerves and reticulations obscure'; petiole 
2 to - 7 in. long, bordered by the decurrent margins of the blade. 
Inflorescence a 3-6-flowered, sessile, umbellate raceme in the axil of the 
uppermost leaf of the branchlets ; raceme about - 2 in. long ; pedicels 
slender, -7 to 1-4 in. long, minutely rusty-pubescent; buds ovoid, acute. 
Calyx-lobes 5, broadly triangular, acute, - 075 in. long, sparsely black- 
gland-dotted, rusty-pubescent. Corolla-lobes broadly ovate, acute, 
•15 in. long, glabrous, densely and closely black-gland-dotted. Stamens 
a little shorter than the corolla-lobes ; filaments very short, thick ; 
anthers oblong, hastate, mucronate, -1 in. long. Ovary rounded, 
glabrous, style slender, -05 in. long. Berry dark red, ovoid, apieulate, 
sparsely striate and gland-dotted, -25 to -3 in. in. diam. 
Peeak : in dense forest at 2,500 .to 4,500 feet, Wray 209 ; King’s 
Collector 5019. Selangob: Bidley 8534. Singapoke : Ridley 6434. 
Very like A. crenata var. angusta but has broader and thinner leaves, differently 
nerved. J 
40. Abdisia ckenata, Boxb. Hort. Beng. 85 (1814), PL Ind. I. 583, 
