Hex.} XL. ILICINE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 601 



A large timber tree (Beddome] ; young parts minutely pubescent. Leaves very cori- 

 aceous, acutely or obtusely serrate throughout their length, tip variable, very cori- 

 aceous ; nerves beneath few, very slender; petiole |-| in. Flowers % in. diam. ; $ in 

 branched very short cymes. Calyx-lobes broad, subacute. Petals connate at the very 

 base in the $ , free in the 9, broadly oblong. Stamens about equalling the petals, in- 

 serted on the corolla in the $ , hypogynous in the . Drupes rarely solitary, globose, 

 with 4 trigonous grooved rather woody stones ; stigma sessile, 4-lobed ; pedicels very stout, 

 ^ in. long. Wight figures the ovarian cells with 2 superposed ovules (copied in Bed- 

 dome's Flor.' Sylv.) ; I find but one with a large thick funicle. I have followed Wight 

 and all subsequent authors in calling this 1. denticulata, Wall. ; but the only represen- 

 tatives of this name in the Wallichian Herbarium are two small obovate leaves, with 

 obscurely serrate margins, probably of /. Wightiana. 



8. I. theeefolia, Wall. Cat. 6391 (Myrsine); glabrous, branches robust, 

 leaves 2-3| in. elliptic-oblong or lanceolate subcaudate with an obtuse 

 tip obtusely obscurely serrate very coriaceous reticulate beneath, flowers 

 5-merous, <$ in very short subsessile cymes, $ fascicled, drupe % in. diam. 

 with 4 stones. I. gaultheriaefolia, Kurz in Beng. As. Soc. Jour. 1872, ii. 

 259. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 3-4000 ft., Gomez. &c. : TENASSERIM, Kurz: MISHMI HILLS, 

 Griffith. 



So near to I. denticulata, that I have hesitated before keeping it distinct ; it differs 

 in the longer narrower more attenuate tips of the leaves, with more reticulated nerves 

 beneath, and in the smaller drupes. I have adopted Wallich's singularly appropriate 

 specific name. 



9. I. embelioides, Hook. f. ; glabrous, leaves H-2 in. elliptic or 

 elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acuminate with an obtuse apiculate tip entire or 

 with a few acute serratures, flowers 4-merous minute, $ in small pedicelled 

 umbellules, fascicled, drupe ^ in. globose with 4 stones. 



KHASIA MTS. ; common at Churra, Nunklow, c., alt. 3-4000 ft. 



A small tree ; tips of branchlets obscurely puberulous, as is sometimes the midrib of 

 the young leaf above. Leaves coriaceous, sometimes quite entire, at others with small 

 scattered spinulose teeth along the margin, very obscurely reticulated beneath ; petiole 

 -g in. Flowers about ^ in. diam., white ; $ panicles 4~1 in., peduncles slender, pe- 

 dicels obscurely puberulous. Calyx-lobes obtuse. Petals oblong-orbicular, connate 

 below in both sexes. Stamens equalling the petals, inserted on the corolla in both 

 sexes. Drupes clustered on a very short axillary branchlet, pedicels as long as them- 

 selves. A very distinct species, of which a specimen in Griffith's Herbarium from the 

 Khasia is labelled " Embeliae affinis? Mambrea 12-6 35," apparently in Wallich's hand- 

 writing. 



10. X. Griffith!!, Hook. f. ; branches pubescent or glabrescent, leaves 

 -2 in. elliptic acute serrulate coriaceous shining above, flowers 4-merous, 



fascicled, $ solitary or nearly so, drupe globose with 4 large coriaceous 

 3-gonous stones and a thin epicarp. 



ASSAM, Jenkins, Griffith; SILHET, at Terrya Ghat, H.f. & T. T.; MALACCA, Keddah 

 Peak, Low; Summit of Goonong, &c., Maingay, Griffith. 



A small tree, branches very sparingly pubescent in Khasia specimens, much more so 

 in those from Malacca. Leaves coriaceous, but soft, serratures obtuse, midrib below 

 often pubescent ; nerves numerous very fine ; petiole \ in. Flowers ? nearly j in. 

 diam., larger than in /. theccfolia, < nearly i in. diam., apparently not panick'd ; pedi- 

 cels 4 in. Calyx orbicular with 4 broad shallow ciliolate lobes. Petals broadly oblong, 

 obtuse, recurved, connate below in both sexes. Stamens of <$ equalling the petals, in- 

 serted on the corolla in both sexes. Ovary globose ; stigma sessile, 4-lobed. />/v//;e 

 quite globose, black or purple ? flesh very thin, stones coriaceous with broad flat faces 

 and a convex back ; pedicel stout, 4~^ in. long. 



