: 
Mesa. | MYRSINE® (Harvey). 433 
EasteERN Reaion: Natal; near Durban, Gueinzius ! Krauss, 152! Nelson, 
9! Inanda, Wood, 1117! Maritzburg, 3500 ft., Schlechter, 6754! between 
Pietermaritzburg and Greytown, Wilms, 1918! and without precise locality, 
Gerrard, 417! Cooper, 1209! Wilms, 1803! 
2. M. alnifolia (Harv. Thes. ii. 20, t. 129); twigs and petioles 
rufo-puberulous; leaves cuneate-obovate, subtruncate, rarely acute, 
penninerved, beyond the middle crenato-dentate, glabrous, very 
minutely puberulous beneath ; racemes axillary, puberulous, simple 
or slightly branched; flowers polygamo-dicecious; bracts much 
shorter than the pedicels, deciduous ; calyx-lobes ‘ovate, downy ; 
corolla of the male twice as long as the calyx. Mez in Engl. 
Pflanzen. Myrsinacee, 23, fig. 1. 
Coast RxrGIon: Stockenstrom Div.; in woods on the Elandsberg Moun- 
tains, 4000 ft., Scully in MacOwan §° Bolus, Herb, Norm. Austy.-Afr., 757! 
Komgha Diy. ; Gonubie River, 2000 ft., Schlechter, 6151! British Kaffraria, 
Cooper, 291! 423! 
EASTERN Recion: Transkei Div.; Kreilis Country, Bowker, 233! Natal; 
near Durban, Sanderson, 463! Umcomaas, Gerrard, 1401! Umazinyati, 1200 ft., 
Wood, 1400! and without precise locality, Sanderson, 314! 
A large shrub or small tree; leaves on }-1 in. long petioles, 1-1} in. long, 
1 in. wide, mostly of the shape represented in the figure above quoted, but 
sometimes they are more extensively serrated and even acute, the form changing 
to obovate-lanceolate. 
3. M. angolensis (Gilg in Notizbl. Kénigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, i. 
72); branches glabrous; leaves elliptic or oblong-elliptic, shortly 
acuminate, acute at the base, about 33 in. long, 11 in. wide, 
irregularly serrate; petiole about 1 in. long; flowers in axillary 
panicles up to 3 in. long; pedicels very short ; bracteoles subulate ; 
calyx divided nearly to the base ; segments ovate, subacute; corolla 
white ; lobes ovate, acute; stamens slightly exserted; ovary glab- 
rous; style short; stigma subdiscoid. Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. 
Welw. i. 637 ; Mez in Engl. Pflanzenr. Myrsinacex, 26. 
Eastern Rea@ion: Natal, Cooper, 1209! 
Also in Tropical Africa, 
Il. EMBELIA, Burm. 
Calyz 5-partite, 5-fid or 5-toothed ; lobes twisted in bud. Petals 
5, spreading or reflexed, imbricate. Stamens 5; filaments attached 
to the base of the petal, filiform above; anthers ovoid, much shorter 
than the filament. Ovary ovoid or depressed, often minute; style 
short ; stigma capitellate or simple ; ovules 4~1, on a minute basal 
placenta. Drupe globose. DC. Prodr. viii. 83. 
Shrubs or small trees, Asiatic and African; leaves alternate, mostly entire ; 
flowers small, in racemes or panicles. Name, from the Cingalese name of one of 
the species, ; 
1. E. Kraussii (Harv. Thes. Cap. ii. 17, t. 127); glabrous ; leaves 
obovate-oblong, acute, quite entire, with reflexed edges, cuneate at 
the base, shortly petiolate ; racemes lateral, shorter than the leaf; 
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