1. M^SA.] 85. MYR8INACEM. 



small Avliite flowers in simple or compound racemes 1-3" lon^. 

 Berry Avhite, 2" diam., ultimately sub-coriaceous and smaller. 



Valleys and cool sides of hills on the Ranch! and Porahat plateaux ! Kochany, 

 Gamble] Fi. March-April. Fr. Dec. -Jan. 



L. acute to caudate-acuminate, shining' above, pale beneath and nearl3- glabrous 

 with 6-7 sec. n. Fls, -IS" diam. Calyx-lobes sub-orbicular broadly ovate or sub- 

 orbicular, microscopically ciliate, lineate (in the Kochansr specimen). Petals 

 veined sub-orbicular. FiL very short. Pedicels -12". 



2. EMBELIA, Burm. 



Shrubs, mostly climbing, or small trees. Leaves entire or serrate 

 petiole often margined or glandular. FloAvers small, polygamous oi" 

 usually dioecious, white or greenish-yelloAv sub-fascicled and in 

 axillary or terminal, simple or compound racemes with small bracts 

 but ebracteolate. Calyx 4-5-lobed, persistent. Petals 4-5, free or 

 only slightly connate at base, imbricate in bud. Filaments more or 

 less adnate to petals, anthers ovate-oblong. Stigma capitellate, 

 ovules few. Fruit small l-(rarely 2-) seeded. Seed globose, base 

 hollowed, albumen pittad subruminate. Embryo curved, transverse. 



1. E. robusta, Roxh. Grointa mata, K.; Baberang, H.; Bhabri, S.; 

 Baibiring', Or.; Nununia, Or. (teste Gamble). 

 A large shrub or small tree with liglit grey lenticellate branches, 

 ell. or obovate acuminate or obtuse leaves pale beneath, and small 

 dioecious greenish-white flowers in axillary and extra-axillary racemes 

 •5-1*5" long. Fr. red siib-globose •12-'17" diam. with a crustaceous 

 epicarp and fleshy endocarp ; tipped by the style. 



Throuo-hout Chota Nag-pur, rather common, especialh" iu open scrub jungles I 

 Santal Parganas ! Thrcmghont Orissa to Sambalpnr and Puri ! Bonai, Cooper ! 

 Fl. May- July. Fr. Nov. -Jan. 



The branches in the type are glabrous, in our specimens the twigs are rusty 

 pubescent or tomento>e. A dwarf comjjact form occurs on Parasuath, but ordinarily 

 the branches are somewhat straggling. Leaves very vai'iable on the same plant 

 r2-6" long, entire or denticulate above, with a very s'bort rusty, sometimes stellate, 

 pubescence especially beneath, narrowed at base into a '^-'5" long pubescent 

 petiole; sec. n. 5-9. Pedicels "IS''. Bracts shorter, linear. Calyx pubescent 

 without, deeply lobed, glandular. Corolla 'IT" diam. puberulous. The female 

 flower has slior't imperfect epijietalous stamens. 



The dried berries contain Embelic acid and are used for expelling tape-worms 

 and are also carminative, stomachic and stimulant, used iu dyspepsia and skin 

 diseases. 



3. ARDISIA, Swartz. 



Shrul)S or small trees Avith entire or toothed leaves and Avhite or 

 pink flowers in simple or compound umbels or racemes Avith small 

 usually deciduous bracts. Calyx often somewhat accrescent in fruit. 

 Corolla 5-partite Avith acute petals tAvisted to the right in bud. 

 Stamens 5 Avith very short filaments and ovate-lanceolate acute free 

 anthers. Ovary narrowed upwards, stigma pointed, ovules feAv. Seed 

 solitary globose, albumen pitted or ruminate. 



Shrub or small tree. L. 4-9". Fls. over "5" diam.. pink . . .1. solenacea. 



Shrub. L. 2-4". Fls. under '5" diam., spotted 2. depre»sa. 



Leaves 2-4". Fls. 'G-'"" diam :i. nov.sp.? 



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