LXXXVI. MYRSINE®. 
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Stigma simple. Fruit small, a globose, fleshy i-seeded drupe 
except Maesa, several seeded, and Aegiceras linear curved, dehiscent, 
i-seeded. Species about 900, tropics and sub-tropics. King and 
Gamble, Jonrn. Soc. Beng., Ixxiv. ii. 93. 
Calyx-tube adnate to ovary; seeds many . 
Calyx-tube free; seed 1. 
Fruit round, pulpy. 
Corolla-lobes imbricate in bud, white. 
Flowers below leaves on short lateral branches . 
Flowers in racemes or panicles; climbers . 
Corolla-lobes imbricate, pink; shrublets 
Corolla-lobes contort overlapping to right; pink 
Corolla-lobes contort, overlapping to left; pink 
Fruit elongate, cylindric curved, dehiscent, flowers 
pale pink . ....... 
1. M^esa 
2. Myrsine 
3. Embelia 
4. Labisia 
5. Ardisia 
6. Antistrophe 
7. Aegiceras 
1 . MAESA, Forsk. 
Shrubs scrambling or erect or small trees. Leaves entire or 
usually crenate, undulate or dentate. Flowers uni- or bi-sexual, 
white, very small in axillary or terminal racemes. Calyx-tube 
adnate to ovary, lobes 4 to 5. Corolla short campanulate, lobes 
4 to 5 round. Stamens 4 to 5 on the corolla-tube; filaments 
short; anthers oblong cordate; style short. Drupe small, globular 
thinly fleshy. Seeds many angular. Species 100, chiefly Old 
World tropics. 
Leaves quite entire. 
Panicles terminal, pubescent .... 
Panicles axillary, glabrous .... 
Leaves faintly undulate or crenate. 
Sub-coriaceous; nerves prominent . 
Coriaceous; nerves not prominent; panicles 
thyrsoid ....... 
Membranous under 3 in. wide. 
Racemes slender, solitary or fascicled 
Racemes panicled; pedicels very short . 
Leaves 4 in. wide; racemes hardly longer . 
Leaves conspicuously toothed; fruit small, 'i in. 
long. 
Leaves toothed; fruit ovoid, '2 in. long 
(1) M. macroihyrsa 
(2) M. ramentacea 
(3) M. impressinervis 
(4) M. arborea 
{5) M. striata 
(6) M. Iancifolia 
(7) M. pahangiana 
(8) M. indica 
(9) M. oocarpa 
(1) M. macrothyrsa Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. Supp. 573; King, l.c. 95. 
Slender climber 30 to 40 ft. long. Leaves entire, thickly mem¬ 
branous, elliptic short blunt acuminate, base round, 3 to 4 in. 
long, 1*5 to 2 in. wide; petioles *5 to 7 in. long. Inflorescence a 
large leafy pubescent panicle. Calyx-lobes 4-(or 5-)toothed. 
Corolla white or pink, lobes 4 or 5. Fruit very small, -05 in. 
through, globose. Hob. Perak (Wray, Scortechini, Kunstler) 
Distrib. Sumatra, Borneo. 
I have seen no specimens. 
(2) M. ramentacea Wall. Roxb. FI. Ind. (ed. Carey), ii. 231; 
King, l.c. 96. 
Usually a sarmentose shrub, occasionally tree-like, glabrous. 
Leaves thickly membranous, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic acuminate. 
