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Myrsineae (This genus contains about)

This genus contains about eighty species of stove or greenhouse, glabrous trees or shrubs, rarely pubescent or tomentose, natives, for the most part, of Asia, Africa, or tropical America; a few are indigenous in Japan, extra-tropical Africa, Australia, the islands of the Atlantic, and New Zealand. Flowers small, disposed in axillary fascicles, sessile or pedunculate. Leaves coriaceous, entire, rarely serrulate. The species best known to cultivation are described below. For culture, see Ardisia. M. africana (African). fl. pale, axillary, by threes; petals ciliated. March to May. l. elliptic, serrated, acute, dotted. h. 3ft. to 6ft. Cape of Good Hope, 1691. Greenhouse shrub.

M. capitellata (small-headed). fl. pale yellowish-green, small, in axillary, sessile, crowded heads. January. l. 5in. to 6in. long, oblong-lanceolate, rather acute, coriaceous, shortly petioled, quite entire, dark green above, paler beneath. h. 4ft. (in its native country a tree 30ft. to 40ft.). Nepaul, 1828. Stove shrub. (B. M. 3222.)