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short ; stigma capitate. Berry globose, blue when ripe, wrinkled when 

 dry, -06 in. in diam., crowned with the persistent style, gland-dotted. 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 1012 ; Scheff. Myrs. 34 ; Mez Monog. Myrs. 310. 

 Ardisia pergamacea, Bl. fide A. DC. 



Perak : C^trtis 2029 ; Wray 2001 ; Ki7ig's Collector 3658, 4678, 

 6412. — DiSTRiB. Java ; Borneo. 



This species closely resembles E. corincca, but differs in the acuminate leaves, very 

 shining above and prominently nerved ; in the papillose calyx-lobes, petals dotted only 

 in the upper part and bracteoles as long as the pedicels. 



7. Embelia coriacea. Wall. Cat. 2314 (1829). A climbing shrub; 

 branches reaching 1-5 in. in diam. ; branchlets reddish, twisted, somewhat 

 angular, roughly lenticellate. Leaves entire, coriaceous ; oblong or 

 oblong-lanceolate, obtusely acute at apex, rounded or almost cordate or 

 auricled at base ; glabrous, more or less shining above, brownish beneath, 

 glandular dots scattered, not prominent, margin sometimes incurved ; 

 3 to 10 in. long, 1-5 to 4 in. broad ; midrib thick, impressed above ; 

 main-nerves many, slender, not prominent, irregularly parallel, at about 

 two-thirds of a right angle with the midrib, joining in an intramarginal 

 faint nerve ; secondary nerves many, slender, reticulations faint ; petiole 

 thick, -3 to "7 in. long, channelled when dry by the crispate edges of the 

 decurrent blade. Bifiorescence a large terminal 4-pinnate spreading 

 leafy rusty-pubescent panicle with racemose branchlets and very 

 numerous flowers ; main rachis thick, somewhat flattened, branches 

 nearly at right angles to rachis as again are the branchlets ; bracts 

 leafy, decreasing upwards ; bracteoles minute, subulate, about half the 

 length of the pedicels ; pedicels "05 in. long ; buds very small, globose, 

 flowers grey. Calyx-lobes 5, minute, triangular, glabrous, dotted with 

 very few (3 to 5 per lobe) brown or black glands ; tube as long as lobes. 

 Corolla-lobes free, 4-5, ovate, blunt, recurved, glabrous without, slightly 

 papillose within, gland-dotted all over. Stamens shorter than the 

 corolla-lobes, inserted on them about half-way up ; anther-cells oblong, 

 somewhat divaricate, with about 4 black warts behind at the insertion 

 of the short filaments. Ovary ovoid, style very short, stigma capitellate. 

 Berry globose, smooth, -075 to "1 in. in diam., pale, prominently 

 gland-dotted, wrinkled when dry, crowned with the persistent base of 

 the style. A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 135, Prod. VIII. 87 ; 

 Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 513 ; Mez Monog. Myrs. 313. E. 

 oblongata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 573 ; Scheff. Myrs. 34. E. macro- 

 phylla, Bl. ; Scheff. Myrs. 36. 



Penang : Wallich 2314 ; Curtis 1047. Perak : Curtis 1307 ; Dcrry 

 11712 ; Wray 2001, 2579, 3238 ; Scortechini 117, 255 ; King's Collec- 



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