Embelia.'] Myvsiuece. 69 



Extremely variable in foliage, C. P. 2598 (from Adam's Peak) is a 

 very small-leaved form, common at the highest elevations; in such locali- 

 'ties the 1. have often recurved margins and are very coriaceous. Wight 

 (Ic. t. 121 1) is quite in error in referring Burm. Thes. t. 31, to this (see 

 ■under Metnecylon tanbellatuni). 



Wood hard, but too small to be of use. 



3. IS^'M.'anJMZA.,* Burm.f. 



Large shrubs usually climbing, 1. alt., entire, glabrous ; fl. 

 very small, in axillary or terminal racemes or panicles, often 

 polygamous ; cal. small, persistent, segm. 4 or 5 ; cor. cut 

 •almost or quite to base into 4 or 5 lobes or distinct pet., 

 imbricate; stam. 4 or 5, inserted on pet., fil. very short; ov. 

 superior, i -celled, globose, with a few ovules on the free 

 central placenta, style simple; fruit a rather dry berry; seed 

 solitary, deeply excavated at the base, embryo transverse, 

 •endosperm pitted on the surface. — Sp. 60; 18 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Fl. 5-merous. 



L. oblong-lanceolate; infl. much longer than 1. . i. E. RiBES. 



L. broadly oval ; infl. shorter than 1. . . . 2. E. robusta. 



Fl. 4-merous 3. E. VIRIDIFLORA. 



I. E. Ribes,t Burin, f. Fl. Ind. 62 (1768). Wel-embilla, .iT. 



Herm. Mus. 11. Burm. Thes. 112. Fl. Zeyl. n. 403 [Ribesioides). 

 E. pamculata, Moon Cat. 17. Thw. Enum. 172. C. P. 1800. 



Fl. B. Ind. 513. Burm. Fl. Ind. t. 23. Wight, let. 1207 {E. glanduli- 

 fera) (not good). 



A large scandent shrub, old stems with thick brown bark, 

 set with conical mamilliform processes, climbing by means of 

 reflexed lateral twigs which are deciduous except the basal 

 part which remains as a woody deflexed spine, branches 

 ■extremely long, very flexible, with long internodes, slender, 

 cylindrical, bark of young branches nearly white, very smooth 

 and shining, with large lenticels; 1. 4-5 in., on very short 

 petioles usually bordered with prominent glands, lanceolate 

 or oblong-lanceolate, acute or rounded at base, shortly acu- 

 minate, acute or obtuse, entire, perfectly glabrous and shining 

 on both sides, paler and somewhat silvery beneath, lat. veins 

 invisible, whole surface with scattered, minute, red, sunken 

 glands; fl. very small, \ in., numerous, on short divaricate 

 ped., in lax, elongated, spreading, pubescent panicles 6 in.-2 ft. 

 long, terminal or in axils of upper 1., bracts small, setaceous, 



* From the Sinhalese name, ' ytmbilla,' as given by Hermann. 

 t Ribes, from the currant-like fruit. 



