filiform 2 in. long style. Fruit a globose berry, with a conical top and the remains of the style, glabrous, striate with linear-oblong prominent glands.

feet.

PERAK: Wray 1590. SELANGOR: Curtis 3750, at 3,000 to 4,000

5. ARDISIA, Swartz.

Small trees, shrubs or semi-herbaceous undershrubs, evergreen, generally all parts with pellucid glands which often dry black. Leaves. sessile or petiolate, membranous to coriaceous, entire crenate or serrate. Flowers regular, pedicellate, hermaphrodite; inflorescence various. Calyx inferior, 4-6-lobed, the lobes free or overlapping to the right; tube very open, as long as or shorter than the lobes. Corolla red white or spotted, often waxy in appearance, 4-6-lobed, the tube often very short; the lobes overlapping to the right, often twisted. Stamens equal in number to, and opposite to, the corolla-lobes, sometimes long and narrow, usually sagittate-lanceolate and apiculate, sometimes very small, fixed to the corolla-tube by filaments usually short and broad; generally opening by slits, occasionally by terminal pores, in A. littoralis septate; dehiscence always introrse. Ovary globose, sometimes narrowed into the style, more often almost depressed; style usually filiform, rather long; stigma punctiform; ovules few or many, immersed in a globose placenta. Fruit a globose, rarely obovoid, berry, usually surmounted by the remains of the style, fleshy, red or purple or black, often spotted; endocarp crustaceous; 1-seeded. Seed solitary, large, globose, hollowed at the base; albumen pitted or ruminate; embryo cylindric horizontal.-DISTRIB. 200 to 250 species, all of tropical or sub-tropical regions in both worlds, scarce in Africa.

Leaves under 6 in. long:

Leaves shining, nerves obscure;
flower-buds very short, rounded

3. A. chrysophyllifolia.

Leaves not shining, nerves con-
spicuous; flower-buds long, acuminate 4. A. solanoides.
Leaves crenate; inflorescence on wood. of

ourrent year
Inflorescence long-peduncled (II. AKOSMOS):-
Peduncles slender, under 1 in. long, pu-
bescent; leaves membranous

Peduncles thick, 3 to 3.5 in. long, glabrous; leaves coriaceous.. Inflorescence terminal :

Style exsert in the bud (III. STYLARDISIA) :— Leaves membranous; inflorescence short, few-flowered

Leaves chartaceous or coriaceous, inflor-
escence elongate, many-flowered :—

Leaves without a conspicuous intra-
marginal nerve :—

Calyx-lobes 05 in. long or under,
usually glabrous :-

Leaves coriaceous:

Leaves not thickly scaly beneath :—
Nerves of leaves obscure, leaves
dark when dry

Nerves of leaves prominent,
leaves pale when dry

Leaves thickly scaly beneath :—

Leaves broad; main-nerves very

5. A. fulva.

6. A. ferruginea.

7. A. lankawiensis.

8. A. andamanica.

9. A. tuberculata.

10. A. ophirensis.

many, prominent, over 24 pairs 11. A. labisiæfolia.

Leaves narrow; main-nerves

fewer, obscure, 20 pairs

Leaves chartaceous:

12. A. montana.

13. A. sinuata.

14. A. colorata.

15. A. crassa.

16. A. platyclada.

17. A. porosa.

18. A. divergens.

the midrib; calyx-lobes emarginate 26. A. Scortechinii. Leaves usually under 6 or even 5 in.

long:

29. A. oblongifolia.

Anthers not known; leaves 7 to 10 in. long,
under 2.5 in. broad; main-nerves at an angle
of 80° with midrib in an elegant network
with secondary nerves and reticulations
Anthers not known; leaves elliptic or elliptic-
ovate, acuminate, 4.5 to 6.5 in. long; calyx-
lobes 4; inflorescence apparently terminal.. 30. A. tetrasepala.
Anthers not known; leaves 3 to 5 in. long,
under 1.5 in. broad, acuminate, flowers 2
Anthers not known; leaves 4 to 6 in. long,
7 to 9 in. broad, linear-lanceolate; flowers
in peduncled axillary umbellate racemes,
about 5 to 8

31. A. biflora.

32. A. tahanica.

33. A. villosa.

34. A. virens.

Leaves membranous, pedicels slender 35. A. Wrayi.
Leaves coriaceous, pedicels thick 36. A. minor.
Leaves under 4 in. long, crenatures
narrow, almost dentate

Racemes in the axils of all or nearly all
the leaves, crenatures narrow
Inflorescence terminal or pseudo-terminal:-
Inflorescence of a single sessile, umbellate
raceme; leaves 4 to 8 in. long

Inflorescence usually of panicled racemes;
leaves 2 to 4 in. long

Calyx-lobes not gland-dotted; inflorescence ter-
minal or pseudo-terminal:-

Branches of inflorescence short, not more than
1 in. long; leaves 2 to 4 in. long

Branches of inflorescence 2 to 3 in. long;
leaves 4 to 6 in. long

Leaves acutely and prominently serrate occasionally abortive (VIII. BLADHIA) :—

Inflorescence long, reaching 6 to 8 in.; leaves large, nearly or quite sessile

Inflorescence short, under 2.5 in.; leaves
petioled :-

Inflorescence 1.5 to 2.5 in. long; anthers
mucronate; leaves under 3 in. long
Inflorescence under 1.5 in. long; anthers
emarginate; leaves over 4 in. long:-

Leaves and branchlets fulvous-villous;
flowers pink; ovary and base of style
pubescent

Leaves and branchlets glabrous; flowers

37. A. perakensis.

38. A. Meziana.

39. A. Ridleyi.

40. A. crenata.

41. A. rosea.

42. A. longepedunculata.

43. A. Maingayi.

44. A. theafolia.

45. A. odontophylla var. Lobbii.

white; ovary and base of style glabrous .. 46. A. bambusetorum.

1. ARDISIA PACHYSANDRA, Mez Monog. Myrs. 97 fig. 14 A-E (1901). A large shrub or small tree reaching to 40 to 50 feet high, and 6 to 10 in. diam.; branches with pale brown bark, marked with decurrent lines below the leaves or leaf-scars; branchlets thickly rustyvillous at the ends. Leaves membranous; oblong or slightly obovate, acute at apex, cuneate at base; glabrous above, except on the midrib which is sometimes minutely pubescent, glabrous or slightly pubescent beneath; entire, glands numerous near the margins; 6 to 10 in. long, 1.5 to 3 in. broad; midrib thick, slightly impressed above; main-nerves

14 to 20 pairs, irregular, 4 to 5 in. apart, starting at an angle of about 60°, then slightly arching to and along the margin; petiole 4 to 6 in. long, pubescent, wrinkled, slightly channelled above. Inflorescence of small, axillary, sessile or shortly peduncled, umbels or corymbs; peduncles 1 in. long, flowers 6 to 8; pedicels slender, pubescent, striate, 4 in. long; bracts minute, subulate, densely pubescent, deciduous. Calyx-lobes ovate, rounded, pubescent, 2 in. long, slightly overlapping to the right, ciliate, gland-dotted especially near the tip. Corolla-lobes boat-shaped, broadly ovate, shortly acuminate, 3 in. long, glabrous, white, faintly nerved, dots very few, revolute in flower; tube short. Stamens a little shorter than corolla-lobes; anthers ovate, cuspidateacuminate, much gland-dotted and warted at the back on the connective; filaments thick. Ovary rounded, glabrous, style subulate, as long as the anthers. Berry 2 to 4 in. in diam., globose, glabrous, pale. Myrsine pachysandra, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 297; Wall. Cat. 2284; A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 111. Pimelandra Wallichii, A. DC. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 2. XVI. 88; Prod. VIII. 106; Deless. Ic. Sel. V. 14. t. 31; Scheff. Myrs. 94; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 1029; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 531.

PENANG: Wallich 2284; Porter; Curtis 1156, 3164, 3181, 3737. MALACCA: Griffith (K.D.) 3597; Maingay (K.D.) 1006. PERAK: Wray 1358; King's Collector 5995, 7194.-DISTRIB. Borneo (?).

2. ARDISIA TEYSMANNIANA, Scheff. in Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. XXXI. 368 and in Flora 253 (1870). A large shrub or small tree; branchlets brown, with wavy longitudinal lines passing downwards from the sides of the bases of the petioles, lenticels numerous, innovations densely ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves entire, chartaceous; oblong or slightly obovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, alternate and sometimes abruptly rounded at base; glabrous above, densely ferruginous-tomentose beneath; glands very numerous, small, evenly distributed over the whole under surface; 6 to 11 in. long, 1.5 to 3 in. broad; midrib thick, prominent beneath; main-nerves 25 to 30 pairs, 3 to 4 in. apart, starting at an angle of 60°, at first straight, then curving to meet in the margin in a looped nerve, raised beneath as are the few secondary nerves and the many oblique reticulations; petiole very thick, 5 to 6 in. long, usually bordered by the decurrent margins of the blade which are again revolute. Inflorescence of axillary pedunculate umbels or corymbs; peduncles in flower 1 to 2 in. long, in fruit sometimes up to 5 in., 4-5-flowered; pedicels slender, 4 in. long, densely rusty-pubescent, striate; bracteoles linear-subulate, deciduous. Calyx-lobes ovate, rounded, pubescent, •1 in. long, ciliate. Corolla-lobes ovate-acuminate, 2 in. long, softly