Embelia.'] LXXXVIII. MYRSINE*;. (C. B. Clarke.) 513 



(in subgenus Rhynchostylis conical-beaked) ; style cylindric, stigma capitellate ; 

 ovules few. Fruit small, globose, 1- (rarely 2-) seeded. Seed globose, base 

 hollowed, albumen pitted subruminate; embryo curved, transverse. Species 

 60 ; in the tropics of the old world. 



In the " Genera Plantamm " (ii. 664) and some other works, the name Samara, 

 proposed by Linne in the " Mantissa," is adopted from being assumed to be prior to 

 Burmann's Embelia, published in 1768. This was due to the erroneous supposition 

 that Samara was proposed in the first part of the " Mantissa," which appeared in 1767 ; 

 whereas it was proposed in the second, which appeared in 1771. (At p. 1240 of 

 " Genera Plantarum" the error is corrected. 



SUBGENTJS I. Euembelia. Petals imbricate in bud. Ovary globose or 

 ovoid, not tapering upwards into a beak. 



SECT. I. CALISPERMUM, Lour. Flowers in general 5-merous, 



* Inflorescence both terminal and axillary. (Leaves entire in the Indian 

 species). 



1. E. Ribes, Burm. Fl. Ind. 62 t. 23 ; leaves elliptic narrowed at both 

 ends entire glabrous, panicles grey-pubescent, pedicels longer than the flowers 

 and fruits. Retz. Obs. iv. 24 ; Lamk. III. t. 133 ; Roxb. FL Ind. i. 586 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 2304 ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 85 ; Scheff. Myrsin. 38 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 137 ; Brand. For. Fl. 284 ; Kurz For. FL ii. ]01. E. garciniaefolia, Wall. ; 

 Miq. PL Jungh. 187 ; Scheff. 1. c. 40. E. glandulifera, Wight Ic. t. 1207 ; Dalz. 

 fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 137. Calispermum scandens, Lour. FL Cochinc. 156. Samara 

 Ribes and S. floribunda, in part, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 222. 



Throughout INDIA from the Central HIMALAYA to CEYLON and SINGAPORE, alt. 

 0-5000 ft. ; common in the lower hills. DISTRIB. Malaya and South China. 



A scandent shrub. Leaves 3 by 1 in., obtusely acuminate, base cuneate or 

 rhomboid, nerves slender; petiole ^ in. Panicle-branches often 3-4 in. ; pedicels ^in. 

 Flowers scarcely ~ in. long, white. Ovary ovoid, not conic upwards. 



2. E. sessiliflora, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1871, pt. ii. 66, and For. FL ii. 

 102 ; leaves ovate entire glabrous base rounded, panicles grey-pubescent, flowers 

 sessile. Samara sessiliflora, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 222. 



BIBMA, "probably Martaban or the Karen Hills," Kwrz. DISTBIB. Poneshee, 

 Upper Birma. 



Only differs from E. Ribes in the points stated, and is perhaps a variety of it (fide 

 Kurz). 



3. E. microcalyx, Kurz in Trimen Journ. Bot. 1875, 328; leaves 

 elliptic obtuse at both ends entire rusty-villous beneath, panicles villous, pedicels 

 about as long as the flowers. Samara microcalyx, Kurz. in Joum. As. &oc. 

 1877, pt. ii. 221. 



NICOBAB ISLANDS ; Kurz. 



A scandent shrub; branches brown -villous. Leaves 3 by l in., nearly glabrous 

 above, nerves slender ; petiole \ in. Panicle-branches 1 in., dense-flowered. Flowers 

 nearly as in E. Ribes, but more pubescent. Differs from E. canescens, Jack., by the 

 very obtuse leaves, and elongate compound panicle. 



4. E. coriacea, A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 135, and Prodr. 

 viii. 87 ; leaves oblong-lanceolate entire glabrous base obtuse, panicles very 

 compound grey-pubescent, pedicels scarcely so long as the flowers. Wall. Cat. 

 2314. E. oblongata, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. Suppl. 573. E. macrophylla, Scheff. 

 Myrsin. 36. 



PENANG; Wallich. MALACCA; Ma ingay. DISTBIB. Java, Sumatra. 

 A scandent shrub. Leaves 8 by If in. (in Wallich's example, larger in Maingay's), 

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