586 PENTANDttiA MONOGYNiA. Embelia. 



tire, smooth, from four to five inches long, and about two 

 broad. Panicles terminal, large, oblong, covered with some 

 rust-coloured farina. Flowers numerous, small, rust-colour- 

 ed ; border yellow. The ten divisions of the border of the 

 corol unequal and orbicular. Filaments from the base of 

 the tube of the corol, short. Anthers ovate, pointed. Germ 

 superior, round, smooth, one-celled, containing three, four, or 

 five ovula, attached to the bottom of the cell. Style scarcely 

 any. Stigma large, five-grooved. Berry the size of a small 

 cherry, black, pulpy, one-seeded. 



EMBELIA. Juss. 

 Calyx five-parted. Corol five-petalled, on which the sta- 

 mina are inserted. Germ superior, one-seeded ; attachment 

 inferior. Drupe one-seeded. Embryo transversely serpentine, 

 and furnished with a perisperm. 



1. E. Ribes. Burnt. Ind. 62. t. 23. 

 Shrubby, scandent. Leaves alternate, petioled, oblong, en- 

 tire, smooth. Panicles terminal, hairy. 



Ribesioides. Linn.fl. zeyl. N. 403. 



Baberung, the vernacular name in the Silliet district. 



An immense climber, a native of the forests on the east bor- 

 der of Bengal, where it blossoms in February and March ; 

 and the seeds ripen towards the close of the rainy season. 



Trunk when full grown about two feet in circumference, 

 covered with scabrous, light brown bark. Branches and 

 branchlets very numerous, and of great extent, the tender 

 shoots hoary. Leaves alternate, petioled, oblong and elliptic, 

 obtuse, finely veined, smooth ; from two to three inches long, 

 and one or one and half broad. Petioles one- fii'th or one-sixth 

 the length of the leaves, margins somewhat winged. Stipules 

 none. Panicles terminal, large, open, and hoary. Bractes 

 ensiform, villous, one-flowered. Flowers numerous, very 

 small, hoary, of a greenish yellow colour. Calyx five-part- 



