Eu uci Lui RA Su E NA 
Hur We 
Embelia. | LXXXVII MYRSINEE, (C. B. Clarke.) 515 
part. E. esculenta, Don Prodr. 147. Samara floribunda, Kurz in Journ. As. 
Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 222 (syn. excl.). 
From Nat, to Buoran and Tenassermm, alt. 2-6000 ft.; frequent. —DisTR!5. 
Java. 
A large, scandent shrub. Leaves 8} by 1-1] in., or (above the racemes) sometimes 
13 by 4 in., much acuminate often caudate, shining, nerves numerous; petiole 1—3 in. 
Racemes all axillary, usually much divided, often 8 in. Flowers, pedicels and fruits 
much as in Æ. Ribes, but glabrous or very obscurely puberulous.—'This has been con- 
founded by Kurz and others,-with E. Ribes; it has more acuminate leaves much more 
rounded at the base, and glabrous panicles never terminal. 
10. E. robusta, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 16,and FI. Ind. i. 587; leaves obovate- 
oblong elliptic or obovate suddenly shortly acuminate undulate or obscurely 
serrulate rusty-pubescent or rarely glabrous beneath reticulated, racemes 
scarcely divided often fascicled more or less rusty-pubescent. Wall. Cat. 2308; 
A. DC. Prodr. viii. 86; Bedd. For. Man. 137, and Anal. Pl. xix. fig. 2; 
Brand. For. Fl. 284; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 102. E. ? reticulata, Wall. Cat. 6521. 
E. villosa, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wail. ii. 289, and Cat. 2313 in 
part; A. DC. l.c. 85. E. ? Tsjeriam-Oottam, A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 
131,and Prodr. l. c. 87 ; Wight Ic. t. 1209. E. ? Basaal, A. DC. in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. l.c. 1, and Prodr. Le 87; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 136. E. picta, A. DC. 
Prodr. viii. 86. Samara ? picta, Wall. Cat. 2302. S. robusta, Kurz in Journ. 
As. Soc. 1877, and pt. ii. 222. Ardisia ? Basaal and Tsjeriam-Cottam, Roem. & 
Sch. Syst. iv. 517, 518.—Rheede Hort. Mal. tt. 11, 12. 
Throughout Inp1a, alt. 0-5000 ft.; from the HrwArAYA (westward to the Jumna, 
Brandis) to CEYLON and TENAssERIM, very common. 
A large, rambling shrub, or small tree; branches glabrous. Leaves 3} by 2 in., 
sometimes 7 by 34 in., base cuneate, margin usually undulate subentire (in a form of 
East Bengal and Birma regularly somewhat closely toothed), more or less pubescent 
beneath, or when mature quite glabrous (the type of Roxburgh's plant, much the less 
common form; see Wallieh's note in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey 4 Wall. ii. 288); 
petiole 4-4 in. Racemes 1-2 in.; bracts j; in., linear; pedicels shorter than the 
flowers and fruits. Corolla 4 in. diam., puberulous within and without, Berry 4-4 
in, diam., red, nearly dry. 
Var. ferruginea, Wall. Cat. 2310 (sp.) ; branches rusty-tomentose, leaves beneath 
and racemes rusty-villous or subtomentose. A. DC. Prodr. vii. 86.—Pegu and 
Tenasserim; Wallich, &c.—Very different in appearance from Roxburgh’s original 
smooth E. robusta, but (as Kurz states) it appears impossible to separate Æ. villosa on 
the one side from E. robusta, on the other from E. ferruginea. 
ll. E. parviflora, Wall. Cat. 2307; leaves small elliptic or ovate 
entire rusty-pubescent beneath base rounded, racemes shortened almost to 
umbels rusty-pubescent. A. DO. Prodr. vii. 86; Scheff. Myrsin. 44; Kurz 
For. Fl. ii. 104.—Samara parviflora, Kurz o Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 
223.—Celastrinea, Griff. Itin. Notes, 85, n. 1220. 
Knuasra Mrs., alt. 0—4000 ft.; Wallich, Griffith, &c.—Disrris. Upper Birma, 
Sumatra. 
A scandent shrub; branches rusty-pubescent. Leaves j-l by 1—j in., acute or 
obtuse; petiole scarcely A in. Pedicels j in., rusty-pubescent, subumbelled on a 
peduncle 4 in. Petals j in. , oblong, imbricate. Filaments slender, three times as 
long as the anthers. Berry lin. diam.—Kurz is mistaken in saying that Griffith 
collected this plant (Kew Distrib. n. 3545) at Ava; Griffith has ticketed it “ Lakhat,” 
which is in Khasia nearly due north from Sylhet Station. 
Secr. II. SAMARA, Zinn. Flowers in general 4-merous. Racemes axillary. 
Leaves entire, or very nearly so, (Choripetalum, 4. DC). 
LL2 
` 
