Bmbelia. | LXXXVIII. MYRSINEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 513 
(in subgenus Rhynchostylis conical-beaked) ; style cylindric, stigma capitellate ; 
ovules few. Fruit small, globose, 1- (rarely 2-) seeded. Seed globose, base 
hollowed, albumen pitted subruminate; embryo curved, transverse.—Species 
60; in the tropics of the old world. 
In the “Genera Plantarum” (ii. 664) and some other works, the name Samara, 
proposed by Linné in the “ Mantissa,” is adopted from being assumed to be prior to 
Burmann’s Embelia, published in 1768. This was due to the erroneous supposition 
that Samara was proposed in the first part of the “ Mantissa," which appeared in 1767 ; 
whereas it was proposed in the second, which appeared in 1771. (At p. 1240 of 
“Genera Plantarum” the error is corrected. 
SuneENvs I. Buembelia. Petals imbricate in bud. Ovary globose or 
ovoid, not tapering upwards into a beak. 
Secr. I. CALISPERMUM, Lour. Flowers in general 5-merous. 
* Inflorescence both terminal and axillary. (Leaves entire in the Indian 
species). 
1. E. Ribes, Burm. Fl. Ind. 62 t. 23; leaves elliptic narrowed at both 
ends entire glabrous, panicles grey-pubescent, pedicels longer than the flowers 
and fruits. Retz. Obs. iv. 24; Lamk. Ill. t. 133 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 586; Wall. 
Cat. 2304; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 85; Scheff. Myrsin. 38 ; Dalz. §& Gibs. Bomb. 
Fl. 197 ; Brand. For. Fl. 284; Kurz For. Fl ii. 101. E. garciniefolia, Wall. ; 
Mig. Pl. Jungh. 187 ; Scheff. l.c. 40. E. glandulifera. Wight Ic. t. 1207 ; Dalz. 
& Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 137. Calispermum scandens, Lour. Fl. Cochine. 156. Samara 
Ribes and S. floribunda, in part, Kurz in Journ. As. ‘oc. 1877, pt. ii. 222. 
Throughout Inpa from the Central Hrwarava to ( eYLoN and SINGAPORE, alt. 
0-5000 ft. ; common in the lower hills.—DisrRrs. Malay 1 and South China. 
A scandent shrub. Leaves 3 by 1j in., obtusely acuminate, base cuneate or 
rhomboid, nerves slender; petiole 4 in. Panicle-branches often 3—4 in.; pedicels $ in. 
Flowers scarcely } in. long, white. Ovary ovoid, not conic upwards. 
2. E. sessiliflora, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1871, pt. ii. 66, and For. FV. ii. 
102 ; leaves ovate entire glabrous base rounded, panicles grey-pubescent, flowers 
sessile. Samara sessiliflora, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 222. 
Birma, “probably Martaban or the Karen Hills," Kurz.—Disrris. Poneshee, 
Upper Birma, 
Only differs from E. Ribes in the points stated, and is perhaps a variety of it (ide 
Kurz). 
3. E. microcalyx, Kurz in Trimen Journ. Bot. 1875, 328; leaves 
elliptic obtuse at both ends entire rusty-villous bern e villous, pedicels 
about as long as the flowers. Samara microcalyx, Kurz. in Journ. As. Soc. 
1877, pt. ii. 221. 
NicoBAR IsraNDsS ; Kurz. , 
A scandent shrub; branches brown-villous. Leaves 3 by 1} in., nearly glabrous 
above, nerves slender; petiole lin. Panicle-branches 1 in., dense-flowered. Flowers 
nearly as in Æ. Ribes, but more pubescent.—Differs from E. canescens, Jack., by the 
very obtuse leaves, and elongate compound panicle. 
4, E. coriacea, A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 185, and Prodr. 
viii. 87; leaves oblong-lanceolate entire glabrous base obtuse, panicles very 
compound grey-pubescent, pedicels scarcely so long as the flowers. Wall. Cat. 
2314, E. oblongata, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 573. E. macrophylla, Scheff. 
Myrsin, 36. . 
Penance ; Wallich. Maracca; Maingay.—DisrRIB. Java, Sumatra. 
A scandent shrub. Leaves 8 by 1jin. (in Wallich's example, larger in Maingay's), 
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