67. MYBSINACEM [2. Embeii*. 



swollen central placenta; style slender, stigma simple or 

 rarely lobed. Fruit usually a berry and 1-seeded or more 

 rarely many-seeded. Seed generally with an excavate base, 

 albumen pitted or ruminate, embryo transverse. 



Calyx half perigynous. Corolla small gamopetalous. Berry 

 many-aeeded 1- Moesa. 



Calyx hypogynous. Fruit 1-seeded. 



Corolla nearly or quite polypetalous, very small white or 

 greenish . 2. Etrdielia. 



CoroUa gamopetalous, small or mod.-sized, pink . . . 3. Ardisia. 



1. MaeSfy Forsk. 



1. M. indiCa, Wall. Syn. M. montana, A.R amjani 

 Beng. 



A shrub 4-8 ft. high with markedly lenticellate branches 

 ell. ovate or ovate-lanceolate coarsely serrate leaves 3 {-6" by 

 ]|-S" and small white flowers in simple or compound 

 racemes 1-3" long. Berry -rW diam. almost entirely enclosed 

 in the calyx-tube, ultimately sub-coriaceous. 



Valleys on the Porahat and Ranehi plateaux. Kochang, Gamble ! Fls . 

 March-April. Fr. Aug.-Dec Evergreen. 



L. acute to caudate-acuminate, shining above, pale beneath and nearly 

 glabrous with 6-7 prs. of sec. n. Fls. %' diam. Calyx-lobes sub-orbicnlar, 

 ciliate, lineate. 1 Petals veined sub-orbicuiar. Fil. very short on the 

 corolla-tube. Pedicels |" bracteate. 



2. Embelia, Burm. 

 I. B. robusta, Boxb. Gointa mata, K. ; Bhahri, & 



A shrub or small tree with light grey lenticellate branches, 

 ell. or obovate acuminate or obtuse leaves pale beneath and 

 small dioecious greenish-white flowers in axillary and extra- 

 axillary -racemes J-l J" long. Fr. red sub-globose J 4" diam. 



1 In the Koehang specimen, but only microscopically ciliate in other 

 Singbhum gpeciroenf^ and not lineate. The Singbhum plant, however, 

 appears to come nearest to M. indica as defined by Mez in his monograph 

 than to any of his other species. 



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