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Ardisia (This genus there are about)

Of this genus there are about 200 species, broadly dispersed through tropical and sub-tropical regions, but very rare in tropical Africa. To those described on p. 109, Vol. I., the following should now be added: A. capitata (headed). fl. greenish-white, disposed in a cone-like head; peduncles axillary, compressed. Summer. fr. bright red. l. crowded at the tips of the branches, 1ft. or more long, obovate-spathulate, entire, shortly stalked. Branches thick. Fiji, 1887.

A. mamillata (nippled). fl. white, tinged rose, star-shaped; umbels ten to twelve-flowered, on axillary peduncles 2in. long. fr. brilliant rosy-red, about 3/8in. in diameter. l. oblong-elliptic, 4in. or more long, dark shining green, thickly studded with small, raised dots or mammillae on the upper surface, with proportionate hollows beneath, each mamilla surmounted by a white, bristly hair; petioles short. Hong Kong, 1887. (G. C. ser. iii., vol. ii., p. 809.) A. picta (painted). l. lanceolate, acute, crenate at the margins, dark, velvety bronze-green, with a broad, central, feathered, silvery stripe. Brazil, 1885. An ornamental, stove, foliage plant.

A. polycephala (many-headed). fl. white, borne in umbels, on short, lateral branches. fr. jet-black. l. opposite, dark, glossy green, when young bright crimson. East Indies, 1888.