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/ A large timber tree (Beddome) ; young parts minuteJj pubescent. Leaves very cori- 

 aceous, acutely or obtusely serrate throughout their length, tip variable, very cori- 

 aceous; nerves beneath few, very slender; petiole |-| in. Mowers J in. diam. ; ^ in 

 OrancUed very short cymes. Calyx-lobes broad, subacute. Petals connate at the veiy 

 case m thoc?, free in the 9, broadly oblong. Stamens about etjualling the petals, in- 

 serted on the corolla in the <? , hypogynous in the ? . Drupes rarely solitary, globose, 

 With 4 trigonous grooved rather woody stones ; stigma sessile, 4]obed ; pedicels roij stout, 

 Jin. Jong.— Wight figures the ovarian cells with 2 superposed ovules (copied in Bed- 

 aome s Flor. Sylv.) ; 1 find but one with a larire thick funicle. I have followed Wight 

 J^tl all subsequent authors in calling this i. denticulata, Wall. ; but the only represen- 

 tatives of this name in the Wallichiau Herbarium are two small obovate leaves, with 

 Obscurely serrate margins, probably of /. Wightiana. 



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8. X. theaafolia, Wall. Cat 6391 (Myrsine); glabrous, branches robust, 

 leaves 2-3| in. elliptic-oblong or lanceolate subcaudate with an obtuse 

 wp obtusely obscurely serrate very coriaceous reticulate beneath, flowers 

 «>-nierouS; ^ in very short subsessUe cymes, ? fascicled, drupe i in. diam. 

 ^ith 4 stones. I. gaultheriasfolia, Kurz in Beng. As. Soc, Jour. 1872, ii 



Khasia Mts., alt. 3-4000 ft., Oomez. &c. ; Tenassertm, Kurz; Mishmi Hn.rj3, 



' fK "f ^^ *^ ^' ^^^^^^^^^^1 that I have hesitated before keeping it distinct ; it differs 

 I longer narrower more attenuate tips of the leaves, with more reticulated nerves 

 i>eneath, and in the smaller drupes. I have adopted Wallich*s singularly appropriate 

 specific name. 



, ?• f . embelloldes, ' //oo^. /, ; glabrous, leaves l|-2 in, elliptic or 

 Gluptic-Ianceolate caudate-acuminate with an obtuse apiculate tip entire or 

 With a few acute serratures, flowers 4-merous minute, cj in small pedicelled 

 '^bellules, $ fascicled, drupe i in, globose with 4 stones. 



Khasia Mts.; common at Churra, Nunklow, &c., alt. 3^000 ft. >; 



A small tree; tips of branchlets obscurely puberulous, as is sometimes the midrib of 

 *"6 young leaf above. Leaves coriaceous, sometimes quite entire, at others with small 

 •wttered spinulose teeth along the margin, very obscurely reticulated beneath ; petJo!<^ 

 +73 1'^* Flowers about ^-^ in. diam., white ; <? panicles 4-1 in., peduncles slender, pe- 

 ^cels obscurely puberulous. Calt^x-lohes obtuse. Petals oblong-orbicular, connate. 

 ^h^ in both sexes. Stafnens equalling the petals, inserted on the corolla in both 

 sexes. Drupes clustered on a very short axillary branchlet, pedicels as long as them- 

 ^Ives — -A very distinct species, of which a specimen in Griffith's Herbarium from the 



^^asia is labelled " Embelise affinis? Mambrea 12-6 35," apparently in Wallich's hand- 

 anting. 



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^^10. I, Grlffithli, I/ook. f. ; branches pubescent or glabrescent, leaves 

 ||-2 in. elliptic acute serrulate coriaceous shining above, flowers 4-inerous, 

 fascicled, ? solitary or nearly so, drupe globose with 4 large coriaceous 

 ^*gonous stones and a thin epicarp. 



-Assam, Jenhins, Griffith; Silhet, at Terrya Ghat, H.f.S T. T; Malacca, Keddah 

 ■^«ak, Low; Surauit of Goonong, &c,, Maingay, Griffith. \ ._ \ 

 . A small tree, branches very sparingly pubescent in Khasia specimens, much more so 

 *J those from Malacca. Leav^ coriaceous, but soft, serratures obtiise, midrib below 

 ^nen pubescent; nerves numerous very fine; petiole i in. Flowers ? nearly J in. 

 QiHin., larger than in /. thecefolia, <?neariy \ in. diam., apparently not nanicled ; p^di- 

 ^^Is \ in. " Calyu6 6rbictilar with 4 broad shallow ciliolate lobes. PetaU broadly oblong, 

 Obtuse, recurved, connate below in both sexes. Stamens o{ S equalling the petals, in- 



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•C'jted on the corolla in both sexes. Ovaru globose; btignia sessile, 4-lobed. Drape 

 ?oite globose, Mack or purple ? flesh very thin, stones coriaceous with broad flat faces 

 *'id a convex back ; pedicel Btout, J-| in. Icmg, . ..^h-*. -- . .t;- 





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