Embelia. pentandria monogynia. 587 



ed, clothed with short, white hairs. Petals five, obi oug, con- 

 cave, spreading, hoary with short, soft, white hairs. Fila- 

 ments five, very short, and inserted into the middle of the 

 petals. Anthers sub-sagittate, resting on the exterior half of 

 the petals. Germ round, one-celled, containing- a single ovu- 

 Inm attached to the bottom of the cell. Style short. Stigma 

 headed, sub-truncate. Drupe the size of a grain of black- 

 pepper, round, crowned with a small point, smooth, succu- 

 lent, when ripe black, when dry wrinkled and very much 

 like that spice, one-celled. Nut brittle, rugose, one-celled. 

 Seeds solitary, roundish, with a cavity at the base. Integu- 

 ments two. Perisperm conform to the seed. Embryo curv- 

 ed transversely, with the convexity up. Cotyledons two, 

 minute, oval, lodged on the side of the base of the perisperm. 

 Radicle filiform, of a curved, serpentine form, with its apex 

 near the margin of the perisperm considerably above its base, 

 on the side opposite to where the cotyledons are lodged, 

 nearly as in Gcertner's Anguillaria, and in Ardisia. 



The natives of the hills in the vicinity of Silhet, where the 

 plants grow abundantly, gather the little drupes, and when 

 dry sell them to the small traders in black-pepper, who frau- 

 dulently mix them with that spice, Avhich they so resemble 

 as to render it almost impossible to distinguish them by sight, 

 and they are somewhat spicy withal. 



2. E. robusta. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves from oblong to oval, smooth. Racemes 

 axillary and terminal, solitary. 



Found by Mr. Roxburgh on the Rajamalnd hills ; from 

 thence he sent the seeds to this garden, where in six years 

 the plants produced from them were about ten feet high, with 

 an erect stem, many nearly erect, and spreading branches, 

 covered with smooth, ash coloured bark. The young shoots 

 are somewhat angular and downy. 



Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oval, smooth, entire, from 

 two to three inches long, by one and half or two broad. Ha- 



