ARDISIA lentiginosa. J 
Speckle-flowered Ardisia. 3 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. MyYRSINER. 
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ternisve diversa, fructificatione tota similis. WALLENIA que hujus ordinis, — 
et dioica, a precedentibus differt, corollé longits tubulosd, limbo abbreviato — 
et semper 4-fido. An itaque omnia conjungenda? Brown prod. 533. , 
A. lentiginosa, foliis lanceolatis, crenatis; corymbis compositis; floribus 
minuté lentiginosis. uae > ee 
Ardisia crenata. Curtis’s magaz. 1950; (non Carey hort. beng. 85.) que 
fort? ARDISIA elegans. Andrews’s reposit. 623? _ nee 
Ardisia crenulata. Donn cant. ed. 8. 64 (non Ventenat choix. tab. 5.) 
Frutex erectus ramulis numerosis approximatis undique sparsis strictis 
superné confertim foliosis ; novellis crassiusculis. Fol. sparsa, coriacea, atro- 
viridia, ovali-lanceolata, utrinque attenuata, margine reflexo-crenata, 2-3- 
uncialia latitudine via uncialt; petiolus brevis canaliculatus und cum nervo 
medio folii lineolato-punctatus. Corymbi compositi ramulorum terminales, 
laxits multiflori, cernui, divaricati, breviores foliis: rachis communis brevis 
robustus strictus viridis ; pedunculi undique sparsi plurimim longiores rachide 
strictiusculi virides punctis lineolatis glandulosis aspersi, uni-pluriflori, 
pedicelli wnbellati articulato-annexi, parum longiores flore. Flores cernui, 
albicantes lineolis glandulosis rufescentibus punctati, diametro % partem 
uncie vix adequantes. Cal. corolle concolor, 4plo brevior, carnosula, ac- 
_cumbens, punctis crebris notatus, stellato-5-fidus, persistens et sensim cum 
_ drupé coccineo-rubescens. Cor. campanulato-rotata 6-partita, lac. equalibus 
ovato-oblongis acuminatis, concaviusculis, disco brevissimé connexis. Stam. bis 
ferme breviora corolla, erecto-conniventia; fil. brevissima robusta imo margyint 
corolle affixa; anth. magne lute sagittato-lanceolate postice lineolis badiis 
parcius punctate, a bast infixe, utrinque longitudinaliter dehiscentes, apiculo 
acuto. Germ. punctatum viride subrotundo-cylindraceum, ovulis subtrinis?, 
stylus setaceus virescens subequalis corolle erectus persistens, stigma apiculus 
acutus, Drupa cortice tenuitis carnoso tecta, impunctata, coccinea, levis, 
subglobosa, magnitudine Pisi mediocris v. minor, stylo inferne carnoso at 
longiis d parte superna sphacelato prefixa; putamen fuscescens, crustaceum, 
tenue, pallido-striatum; albumen corneum. 
Mr. Brown thinks the present genus almost too artifici- 
ally separated from Myrsine, from which it differs merely 
by flowers with perfect stamens and pistil on the same plant, 
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