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stigma. Eetz. Obs. iv. 24 ; Lamk. 111. t. 133 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. i. 586 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 2304 ; A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 129, Prod. VIII. 85 

 {yart) ; Scheff. Myrs. 38 ; Miq. Fl.' Ind. Bat. II. 1011 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 137 ; Brandis For. Fl. 284 ; Kurz For. Fl. II. 101 ; Clarke in 

 Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. II. 513 ; Trimen FL Ceyl. III. 69; Cooke Bomb. Fl. 

 II. 84 ; Mez Monog. Myrs. 303 ; Prain Beng. PI. 643. E. Burmannii, 

 Eetz Obs. IV. 23. E. garcinicefolia, Wall. Cat. 2304c and e ; Miq. I.e. 

 1011 ; Scheff. Myrs. 40. E. sumatrana, Miq. I.e. 1012. E. glanduli- 

 fem, Wight Ic. 1207 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 137. Samara Bibes, 

 Km-z in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. 222. Arclisia tenuiflora, Bl. 

 Bijdr. 687. 



Penang : Deschamps, Curtis. Perak : Wray 420 ; Scortechini ; 

 King's Collector 928, 1150, 6999 (abnormal state, most of the flowers 

 converted into leafy bracts). Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3550; Maingay 

 (K.D.) 1002 ; Cuming 2320. Johore : Native Collector 3749. Singapore : 

 Bidley 10643, 2803 (fruits converted into insect galls) ; Kurz 2965. — 

 DiSTRiB. India, Burma and Ceylon ; Malay Islands and eastwards to 

 South China. 



Var. rugosa, King & Gamble. Branchlets dark brown, much 

 wrinkled and with oblong lenticels. Leaves 4 to 5 in. long, 1-5 to 

 2 in. broad, usually thicker than the type. Bacemes less pubescent 

 than in type, the flowers often collected near the ends of the ultimate 

 branches of the inflorescence. Stame^is of ^ flowers exsert. Stigma 

 of 5 much larger than that of <? flowers, peltate. Berry rugose, 

 conically tipped ; pericarp thick, fleshy, with cavities. 



Perak : Wray 2278, 2576, 3069 ; King's Collector 2512, 3001, 4040. 

 Singapore : Bidley 10384. 



We find no Malay specimens with the large glandular pits so well marked in 

 South Indian specimens [Emhelia glandidifera, Wight Ic. 1207). Wight's figure is 

 not well drawn in several respects, and especially as to the nervation of the leaves, so 

 it is not very easy to make sure about it, but there seems no reason to separate 

 E. (ilandulifera from K. Ribca unless perhaps as a variety. It has usually a much 

 shorter and fewer-flowered inflorescence. 



2. Embelia canescens. Jack ; Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & 

 Wall. II. 292 (1824). A chmbing shrub with slender, villous, sub- 

 flexuose branches. Leaves entire, chartaceo-membranous ; elliptic, 

 shortly acuminate at apex, rounded or sub-cordate at base, glabrous or 

 slightly pubescent and shining above, canescent beneath ; glandular 

 dots many, not prominent, in the areoles of the reticulations; 2 to 3-5 

 in. long, 1*5 to 2 in. broad ; midrib prominent, impressed above, villous 

 beneath ; main-nerves about 10 pairs, irregular, curving upwards to join 

 at some distance from the margin ; secondary nerves many, slender, 



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