^6 SAPOTACEi© 



EMBELIA. F.B.1. 88III. 



See Vol. I p. 267. 



Usually climbing shrubs with entire leaves. Flowers 

 in axillary or terminal racemes, small, white or greenish, 

 mostly unisexual and dioecious. Petals nearly free, 

 imbricate. Fruit a small one-seeded berry. Embryo 

 curved. 



Species about 100 in the tropics. 



Embclia ribcs Burnt ; RB.I. iii 513, III I. A thin 

 stemmed climbing shrub, with glossy leaves all facing 

 upwards. Leaves elliptic-oblong or obovate, with blunt 

 cuspidate apex, quite entire. Panicles terminal and 

 axillary on drooping branches, pubescent with grey hairs. 

 Flowers 1/12 inch, white; pedicels as long or longer. 

 Petals imbricate. Fruit globose, % inch. t. 410. 

 Wight Ic. t. 1207. 



Nilgiris: Coonoor, Wellington, etc., common in sholas. 

 Pulneys : Shembaganur, etc. 



Embclia viridiflora Schff,; F.B.L iii 516, III 10. Alto- 

 gether a more robust plant than the last. Flower bearing 

 branches not drooping. Berries green, orange or red, ^ 

 inch. t. 411: 



Nilgiris : Wellington, Kotagiri. Fyson, Sedgwick, 



SAPOTACE/E. 



See Vol. I p. 269 and add : 



KEY TO THE GENERA. 



Sepals and petals 5. Stamens 5. Staminodes 5. . sider- 



OXYLON. 



Sepals and petals 4. Stamens 8, all perfect. isonandra. 



