70 MyrsinecE. [Evtbelia.. 



deciduous; cal.-segm. broad, ciliate; cor. split into 5 distinct 

 pet., pubescent on both sides ; stam. 5, erect ; berry about 

 \ in., nearly globose, tipped with style, smooth, crimson. 



Moist region up to 4000 ft.; rather common, especially in lower 

 montane zone. Fl. June-November; pale greenish-yellow, or nearly 

 white. 



Throughout India, S. China, and Malaya. 



Hermann's specimens are good, but the plant was never named by 

 Linnaeus in his systematic books. The fruit much resembles large 

 bunches of true currants, but when dried they look quite like black 

 pepper, and form the bazaar drug known as ' Walinga-sal,' and much 

 used as a vermifuge. The sunken glands are conspicuous and prominent 

 in the young leaves, but in the adult ones can only be seen by transmitted 

 light. 



2. S. robusta, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 16 (1814). 

 Thw. Enum. 173. C. P. 1804. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 513, Wight, Ic. t. 1209 {E. Tsjeriam-cottam). 



A shrub or small tree, semi-scandent by means of its 

 numerous horizontal branchlets, bark grey, young parts 

 glabrous ; 1. 2-4 in., oval or broadly oval, acute or rounded at 

 base, somewhat acuminate, subacute or obtuse, entire, rather 

 undulate, thin, glabrous, paler and often reddish beneath, 

 veins purple, the lat. ones conspicuous, petiole \-\ in. ; fl. 

 small, on short divaricate ped., in small, axillary and terminal 

 racemes or panicles shorter than 1., bracts minute ; cal. 

 puberulous, segm. lanceolate, acute ; cor. cut nearly to the 

 base, lobes 5, recurved, puberulous on both sides ; berry about 

 \ in., nearly globose, apiculate, red, pulp very scanty. 



Dry and intermediate region; rather rare. Kurunegala; Bintenne;. 

 Batticaloa; Ekiriankumbura. Fl. June; pale yellowish-green. 

 Throughout India and Burma. 



3. E. viridiflora, Scheff. Myrs. Arch. Ind. 45 (1867). 

 Samara* viridiflora, Thw. Enum. 173. C. P. 610. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 516. Wight, Ic. t. 12 10 [Choripetalum aurantiacum),. 

 and t. 1 59 1 {Samara Rheedii). 



A large climbing shrub with many short divaricate 

 branchlets, bark purplish-brown, with Icnticcls, young parts 

 glabrous ; 1. 2-4 in., nearly sessile or with a very short thick 

 petiole, oblong-oval, tapering to base, obtu.se, entire, glabrous,, 

 margin often narrowly recurved, rather thick ; fl. small, on 

 short ped. in very short racemes from axils of fallen 1. ; cal. 

 shallow, fleshy, segm. 4, tooth-like ; cor. of 4, quite distinct. 



* The genus Samara., L., was long considered to be the same as 

 Embelia ; but it was based wholly on Burmann, Thes. Zeyl. t. 31, which 

 is Me7necylon umbellaiu/n, Burm. f. (q. v.). 



