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and FI. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 276. An evergreen small glabrous 
shrub ; brancblets thick, somewhat fleshy, striate with faint lines 
decurrent from the bases of the leaves ; leaf-buds small, conical. 
Leaves chartaceo-coriaceous ; lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acute or 
sub-obtuse at apex, acuminately narrowed at base ; margins cris- 
pately crenate with glands in the crenatures, recurved ; glabrous on 
both surfaces ; glandular dots scattered in the areoles of minor 
nerves, sometimes prominent, often obscure; 2 to 4 in. long, -75 
to 1'5 in. broad; midrib slender; main-nerves 10 to 14 pairs, 
irregular, slender, arching upwards and joining in an intramarginal 
nerve close to the margin which passes through the erenature glands ; 
secondary nerves similar but fainter, reticulations curved ; petiole 
•2 in. long, narrowly winged by the crisped edges of the decurrent blade. 
Inflorescence of short, sessile or shortly peduncled, panicled racemes, 
springing from the branchlets just below the terminal pair of leaves ; 
pedicels -2 to -4 in. long, slender, longer and thicker in fruit, generally 
recurved; buds conical, -15 to - 2 in. long; flowers 4- or 5-merous, waxy 
pink or white. Calyx-lobes ovate, -05 to - 1 in. long, scarious at the 
edges, dotted with black glands in the middle ; tube very short. Corolla- 
lobes rose-pink, ovate-oblong, bluntly acuminate, '2 in. long, oblique, 
unequal, sparsely dotted with round or elongated glands, sometimes 
papillose at the base within. Stamens shorter than corolla-lobes ; 
anthers ovate-oblong, acute, with few glands on the back ; filaments 
very short. Ovary ovoid, surmounted by a twisted subulate slender 
style ‘15 in. long. Berry globose, "25 in. in diam., scarlet, succulent, 
obscurely striate, crowned by the persistent style. Wall. Cat. 2262 ; 
Bot. Mag. t. 1950 ; Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. III. 524 ; Koord. & 
Yal. Bijdr. VI. 190. A. glandulosa, Bl. Bijdr. 690 ( not of Eoxb.). A. 
crenulata, Lodd. Bot. Cat. t. 2 ( not of Vent.). A. crispa, A. DC. in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 124 and Prod. VIII. 134 ; Scheff. Myrs. 72 ; 
Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. II. 1020 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. 
226 and For. FI. II. 113 ; Mez Monog. Myrs. 144, fig. 22. A. densa and 
A. polysticta, Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 575, 576. Bladhia crispa, 
Thunb. FI. Jap. 97 ; Kaempf. Ic. PI. Jap. t. 7. 
Kedah : Ridley 5517. Penang : Wallich 2262 ; Maingay (K.D.) 
1009 ; Phillips ; Curtis 337 ; Deschamps ; G. King ; J. Scott. Malacca : 
Griffith (K.D.) 3583/1 ; Cuming 2254 ; Hullett 637 ; Derry 944. Perak : 
Scortechini ; Wray, 1257; King’s Collector 1337, 4180, 4903, 7847 
8706, 10566. Selangor : Ridley 10553. Pahang : Ridley 24 ; Havi- 
land. Johore: Fox 11285. — Distrib. Assam, Burma, Sumatra, Java, 
Borneo, and eastwards to South China and Japan. Bidley (Trans. 
Linn. Soc. III. (1893) 317) says the berries are “ sweet and eatable.” 
