496 Lxxix. MTRSiNEiE (baker). [EmheUa. 



subsessile at the throat of the corolla- tube. Ovary globose ; style pro- 

 duced, very slender. Fruit not seen. 

 Upper Guinea. Sierra del Crystal, Ma7in ! 



4. EMBELIA, Burm. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1240 ; 

 (Samara, Linn. Mant.) 



Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. Calyx entirely free from 

 the ovary, minute, campanulate, persistent ; teeth usually 5, imbricate. 

 Petals much longer than the calyx, free, deciduous, imbricate. Stamens 

 as many as the petals, attached to the base ; anthers oblong ; filaments 

 subulate, long or short. Ovary globose ; style short or produced ; 

 stigma capitate, entire or lobed ; ovules few, inserted on the subglo- 

 bose placenta. Fruit small, globose, 1 -seeded. Seed subglobose, with 

 copious smooth, or ruminate albumen. — Trees or shrubs, usually 

 climbers, glabrous or pubescent ; leaves petioled, usually entire ; 

 flowers minute, whitish, disposed in simple or panicled lateral racemes. 



A genus of about 50 species, spread through the tropical regions of the Old World ; 

 one Cape. 



Leaves and branchlets tomentose I. E. nilotica. 



Leaves and branchlets glabrous. 



Petals -ja ^"- loiig- Stamens exserted 2. E. guineensis. 



Petals ^ in. long. Stamens as long as the petals . . . 3. E. ahyssinica. 



1. IS. nilotica, Oliver in Trans. Linn. 8oc. xxix. 105, t. 71. An 

 erect tree, 30 in. in circumference of the stem, with stiff branches 

 densely clothed with feiTUginous tomentum. Leaves petioled, not 

 crowded on the branchlets ; petiole ^—^ in., densely ferrugineo-tomen - 

 tose ; blade obovate, 3-4 in. long, 2-3 in. broad, obtuse with a small 

 cusp, cuneate at the base, entire, moderately firm in texture, not per- 

 ceptibly gland-dotted, green on both surfaces, glabrous above, pubes- 

 cent all over beneath, ferruginous on the raised erecto-patent main 

 veins, which fork before reaching the edge. Racemes oblong, simple, 

 one from the axil of each leaf, under 1 in. long inclusive of the short' 

 peduncle, which like the rachis is densely coated with ferruginous 

 tomentum; lower pedicels spreading or deflexed, as long as the 

 flowers ; bracts minute, lanceolate, densely pubescent. Calyx 1 line 

 in diameter in the flowering stage, densely pubescent, with 5 deltoid 

 teeth. Petals linear-oblong, ^ in. long. Stamens rudimentary in the 

 specimens seen. Ovary ovoid, with a style as long as itself and a 

 3-lobed stigma. 



Wile Iiand. Banks of a rocky burn in Madi, Col. Grant ! 



2. S. g-uineensis, Baker. A climbing shrub, glabrous in all its 

 parts. Leaves petioled, not crowded on the branchlets ; petiole J-^ in. ; 

 blade obovate, 2-3 in. long, 1-1 J in. broad, obtuse, entire, cuneate at 

 the base, moderately firm in texture, green and glabrous on both sides, 

 with copious black dots, the main veins fine and not raised. Flowers 

 in abundant nearly sessile dense narrow oblong simple racemes under 



