512 LXXXVIII. MYRS1NE2E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Myrsine. 



petiole | in. Pedicels \ in., often longer, glabrous. Flowers 4- (rarely 5-) merous, 

 T 5 in. diam. Style with 2-4 spathulate flat branches. Berry -1 in. diam. 



VAK. subspinosa, Don Prodr. 147 (sp.) ; branches pubescent at the tips, leaves 

 serrate sometimes subspinescent, pedicels glandular-pubescent often when young 

 ferruginous shorter than the fruits. Gurwhal to Bhotan, alt. 3-9000 ft.; very 

 common, Khasia, H. f. cf T. Branches often angular. Leaves much less coriaceous 

 than in the shining eastern M. semiserrata ; petiole often pubescent. This is the 

 common Himalayan M. semiserrata of Wallich, though not the plant figured by him 

 (in Tent. Fl. Nep. t. 24). Kurz (who, in his own herbarium, named it M. bifaria, 

 Wall. ?) nevertheless proposes to call this M. semiserrata, and to make a new species 

 (M. khasiana, Kurz) of the type which is probably distinct. Kurz " is not sure " 

 about Wallich's figure ; it would appear probable that Wallich collected M. subspinosa 

 in Nipal and M. semiserrata in Khasia, and, regarding them as one species, his figure 

 represents either or both. 



** Style- branches oblong, not spreading. 



3. TO. capitellata, Wall, in Roxb. FL Ind. ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 295 ; 

 Tent. Fl. Nep. t. 25, and Cat. 2296 ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate narrowed at both 

 ends entire primary veins distinct, flowers subsessile, fruits smooth. Sot. Mag. 

 t. 3222 ; A. DC. P)-odr. viii. 95 ; Brand. For. Fl. 286; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 1877, pt. ii. 221. M. excelsa, Don Prodr. 147; A. DC. I.e. 94. M. lucida, 

 Wall. Cat. 2298 ; A. DC. I. c. 



NIPAL, Wallich ; alt. 4000 ft., J. D. H. BHOTAN, Griffith. ASSAM, Hamilton. 

 KHASIA MTS., H.f. $ T. DISTRIB. Ava. 



A shrub, or a tree 30 ft. Leaves 7 by 2 in., subacute ; petiole in. Flowers 

 in. across, 5-merous. Style cylindric, hardly wider upwards. Bentham (in Fl. 

 ongk. 205-6) includes (under M. capitellata, Wall.) M. philippensis, A. DC., and 

 M. nerii/olia, Sieb. & Zucc. ; thus extending the area of the species throughout 

 Eastern Asia to the Philippines and Japan. 



VAR. lanceolata, Wall. Cat. 2297 (sp.) ; leaves smaller more coriaceous subobtuse. 

 M. Wightiana, Watt. Cat. 2300 ; A. DC. 1. c. 94 ; Wight Ic. t. 1211 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 t. 234. Khasia Mts., common. Mts. of South India and Ceylon, common. There 

 are a number of Malay forms hardly distinguishable , and some of Griffith's examples, 

 collected at Malacca, have the leaves distinctly veined, and cannot be distinguished 

 from var. lanceolata. 



VAR. lepidocarpon, Wight in Herb, (sp.) ; fruits rough with scales. Indian 

 Peninsula, Wight, n. 1781. Otherwise as var. lanceolata. 



VAR. avenis, A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 107, and in DC. Prodr. viii. 96 

 (sp.) ; leaves very coriaceous primary nerves obscure, pedicels rather longer some- 

 times ^-| in. Scheff. Myrsin. 47 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 221, and For. 

 FL ii. 105. M. Porteriana, Wall. Cat. 6525 ; A. DC. 1. c. 95. M. umbellulata, 

 A. DC., I.e. 



Ardisia avenis, Blume Bijd. 691. Embelia umbellulata, Watt. Cat. 2312. Birma 

 to Malacca, frequent. DISTRIB. Sumatra, Java, Banca. Kurz endeavours to dis- 

 tinguish this specifically by the " stigmas sessile, pedicels thick." 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



M. THE^FOLIA, Wall. Cat. 6391, is Ilex thesefolia, Hook.f. 



3. EMBELIA, linrm. 



Shrubs mostly climbing, or small trees. Leaves entire or toothed ; petiole 

 often margined or glandular. Racemes axillary or terminal, simple or compound, 

 or flowers subfascicled ; bracts small (except in E. amentacea) ; bracteoles 0. 

 Flowers small, polygamous, mostly dioecious, white or greenish yellow. Calyx 

 free, 5-4-lobed, persistent. Petals 5-4, free or slightly coherent at the base, elliptic, 

 imbricate in bud (in subgenus Rhynchostylis contorted). Stamens 5-4 ; filaments 

 more or less adnate to the petal } anthers ovate-oblong. Ovary ovoid or globose 



