914 LXXXVIII. MYRSINEZ, (C. B, Clarke.) [ Hmbelia. 
acute, very coriaceous, nerves slender; petiole 4-2 in., very stout. Pamnicles often a 
foot long and broad; bracts at the divisions uon ; elliptic, sometimes subpersistent. 
Flowers very nearly as in Æ. Ribes.—This has been taken for E. garciniefolia, Walk, 
which is a somewhat shining Malayan form of E. Ribes. 
5. E. adnata, Bedd. ms.; leaves broadly oblong entire glabrous base 
obtuse, panicle compound branches and pedicels very stout pubescent, pedicels 
scarcely so long as the flowers. Embelia, sp. 4, Bedd. For. Man. 138. 
Deccan PENINSULA; Bolamputty Hills, alt. 5000 ft., Beddome. 
A large, scandent, epiphytie shrub (Beddome) ; branches stout, rugose, angular, 
warted, pubescent towards the tips. Leaves 5-6 by 2-21 in., obtuse, acute or slightly 
acuminate, coriaceous, red when young, nerves slender or obscure ; petiole -+ in. 
Panicle 8 in. diam., reddish-brown; branches rugose, thinly pubescent. Flowers 
nearly as of E. Ribes, the calyx-teeth rather more acute. Ovary globose, not conie 
upwards. —Neither E coriacea, Wall., nor any of the allied Malayan species, has such 
stout panicle-branches and pedicels. 
6. E. canescens, Jack.; Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wail. ii. 
292, and Cat. 2311; leaves ovate or obovate-oblong narrowed at the apex 
rounded on the petiole entire, midrib beneath rusty-villous, panicle thin rusty- 
villous, pedicels as long as the flowers and fruits. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 84; 
Scheff. Myrsin. 42. 
Penang; Jack. Maracca; Maingay. 
A scandent shrub; branches cinnamoneous-tomentose. Leaves 3 by 14 in., shortly 
obtusely acuminate, pubescent on both surfaces when young, nearly glabrous except 
the midrib beneath when old, membranous, nerves prominent; petiole 4 in., glandular. 
Panicles 2-4 in.; pedicels longer than the flowers in Wallich’s examples; but Scheffer 
(Mrysin. 31) diagnoses the species as having pedicels shorter than the flowers and 
fruits. Flowers as in E. Ribes, but fulvous-villous; petals hairy on both surfaces. 
Fruit } in. long, rather larger than in Æ. Ribes. 
7. E. Limpani, Scheff. Myrsin. 37; leaves oblong subobtuse rusty-villous 
beneath, panicle rusty-villous, pedicels shorter than the flowers, bracts linear 
minute. E. villosa, Wall. Cat. 2313 chiefly, not of A. DC. 
Maracca; Maingay.—Distris. Sumatra. 
A scandent shrub; branches villous. Leaves 21 by $ in., exactly oblong with 
parallel sides, or slightly wider upwards and obscurely obovate, coriaceous, base 
rounded; petiole 3 in. Panieles compound, 2-5 in. diam., branches 1—4 in.; pedicels 
-i in. Calyx rusty-pubescent. Corolla J in. long, puberulous hardly pubescent 
within and without.—This is probably what Wallich originally meant to be his 
E. villosa, but he described under that name the very different plant mixed with it, 
which is only a pubescent form probably of E. robusta, Roxb. 
3. E. amentacea, Clarke; leaves oblong subobtuse rusty-villous beneath, 
panicle rusty-villous, pedicels shorter than the flowers, bracts 4 in. ovate- 
oblong. 
Maracca; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3548). 
Griffith’s examples (marked by him Samara?) are young males; the branches of. 
the panicle resembling catkins from the close imbrication of the bracts on all sides. 
Except as to these bracts, the plant is so exactly like E. Limpani that it may prove 
to be an abnormal form of that species. The flowers, however (males), appear per- 
fectly developed and normal. 
** Inflorescence axillary. 
9. E. floribunda, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey § Wall. ii. 291, and 
Cat. 2305 ; leaves long-lanceolateacuminate entire glabrous base obtuse or rounded, 
racemes panicled glabrous, 4. DC. Prodr. viii, 85; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 102, in 
