496 LXXIX. MYRSINEZ (BAKER). [ Embelia. 
subsessile at the throat of the corolla-tube. Ovary globose ; style pro- 
duced, very slender. Fruit not seen. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra del Crystal, Mann! 
4, EMBELIA, Burm.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. 11. p. 1240 ; 
(Samara, Linn. Mant.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. Calyx entirely free from 
the ovary, minute, campanulate, persistent ; teeth usually 5, imbricate. 
Petals much longer than the calyx, free, deciduous, imbricate. Stamens 
as many as the petals, attached to the base; anthers oblong ; filaments 
subulate, long or short. Ovary globose; style short or produced ; 
stigma capitate, entire or lobed ; ovules few, inserted on the subglo- 
bose placenta. Fruit small, globose, 1-seeded. Seed subglobose, with 
copious smooth, or ruminate albumen.—Trees or shrubs, usually 
climbers, glabrous or pubescent; leaves petioled, usually entire ; 
flowers minute, whitish, disposed in simple or panicled lateral racemes. 
A genus of about 50 species, spread through the tropical regions of the Old World; 
one Cape. 
Leaves and branchlets tomentose ~ . . . . . . . . 1. E. nilotica. 
Leaves and branchlets glabrous. 
Petals 3, in. long. Stamens exserted . . . . . . . 2. HE. guineensis. 
Petals in. long. Stamens as long asthe petals . . . 3. 2. abyssinica. 
1. EB. nilotica, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 105, t. 71. An 
erect tree, 30 in. in circumference of the stem, with stiff branches 
densely clothed with ferruginous tomentum, Leaves petioled, not 
crowded on the branchlets ; petiole 4-2 in., densely ferrugineo-tomen- 
tose ; blade obovate, 3-4 in. long, 2-3 in. broad, obtuse with a small 
cusp, cuneate at the base, entire, moderately firm in texture, not per- 
ceptibly gland-dotted, green on both surfaces, glabrous above, pubes- 
cent all over beneath, ferruginous on the raised erecto-patent may 
veins, which fork before reaching the edge. Racemes oblong, simple, 
one from the axil of each leaf, under 1 in. long inclusive of the short 
peduncle, which like the rachis is densely coated with ferraginous 
tomentum; lower pedicels spreading or deflexed, as long a8 the 
flowers; bracts minute, lanceolate, densely pubescent. Calyx 1 be 
in diameter in the flowering stage, densely pubescent, with 95 deltoid 
teeth. Petals linear-oblong, } in, long. Stamens rudimentary in the 
, . j ; 1 a 
Slobed stigma Ovary ovoid, with a style as long as itself am 
Nile Land. Banks ofa rocky burn in Madi, Col. Grant ! 
2. BE. guineensis, Baker. A climbi ous in all its 
parts. Leaves petioled, not crowded on the branchlets s atiole 4-4in. 
blade obovate, 2-3 in. long, 1-13 in. broad, obtuse entire, cuneate at 
the base, moderately firm in texture, green and glabrous on both sides, 
with copious black dots, the main veins fine and not raised. Flowers 
in abundant nearly sessile dense narrow oblong simple racemes under 
