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MYRSINACEJE. 
\_Myrsine. 
1. M. capitellata, Wall. ; A. DC. Prod.v iii. 94. A small tree, 10-20 
feet high, with spreading reddish-green branches. Leaves crowded at 
the end of the branchlets, oblong, coriaceous, sessile, obtuse, cuneate 
at the base, 2-3 in. long, glabrous, minutely reticulated and black- 
dotted. Flowers 4-9 together in crowded fascicles on the old wood be- 
low the leaves ; pedicels T \ in. long. Calyx persistent, with 5 minute 
round spreading lobes. Corolla caducous, in. long. Drupe small, 
globose, pea-like, 1-seeded. 
Seychelles, on and near the tops of the mountains in Mahe and Silhouette, 
Some , 442 ! 588 ! East Indies and Ceylon, not African. 
3. ARJDISIAj Swartz. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx minute, campanulate, with 5 deltoid 
teeth. Corolla rotate, the 5 lobes twisted and imbricated in bud. 
Stamens 5 ; filaments very short. Ovary globose, with few ovules 
on a basal placenta ; stigma capitate. Fruit a small coriaceous 1- 
seeded pea-like drupe. — Shrubs, with alternate entire leaves and 
abundant flowers in axillary panicles or racemes. Distrib. Tropics of 
both hemispheres. Species 200. 
Racemes few-flowered, simple 1. A. Sieberi. 
Racemes copiously panicled 2. A. insularis. 
1. A. Sieberi, Baker. A much-branched glabrous erect shrub, 5-6 
feet high. Leaves obovate-oblong, obtuse or obtusely cuspidate, 2-3 in. 
long, 1-1| in. broad above the middle, deltoid at the base, subcoriaceous, 
reticulato-venose when mature and distinctly gland-dotted ; petiole 
£ i u - long- Racemes axillary, simple, distinctly peduncled, few- 
flowered, i — \ as long as the leaves, with spreading pedicels -X— | in. long. 
Calyx in. long, the teeth broad and obtuse, with a whitish ciliated 
edge. Expanded corolla in. broad, with obtuse lobes. Drupe 
globose, -x in. thick. Badula Sieberi, A. DC. Prod. viii. 108 Ardisia 
latifolia, Sieber , Herb. Maur. ii. 53. 
Mauritius, in mountain-woods of Grand Bassin and the Savanne range. Also 
Madagascar. 
2. A. insularis, Baker. An erect shrub, glabrous in all its parts. 
Leaves crowded, obovate-oblong, subcoriaceous, obtuse, cuneate at the 
base, reticulato-venose and gland-dotted, 3-6 in. long, H-2 in. broad 
above the middle ; petiole very short, channelled. Flowers in dis- 
tinctly- peduncled copious axillary panicles as long or half as long as 
the leaves, with spreading racemose branches ; pedicels about as long as 
the flowers. Calyx ^ in. long, with round ciliated teeth. Bud ovoid 
or globose. Corolla ± in. long, the lobes subobtuse or subacute. 
Drupe the size of a small pea. Badula insularis, A. DC. Prod. viii. 109. 
B. Barthesia and micrantha, Bojer, Sort. Maur. 196, non A. DC. 
Mauritius, frequent in the mountain-forests. Also Bourbon. J udging from the 
description, B. reticulata , A. DC. Prod. viii. 108, seems a variety of this with larger 
