LXXXVIII. MYRSINE2G. (C. B. Clarke.) \Embelia. 



acute, very coriaceous, nerves slender ; petiole -f in., very stout. Panicles often a 

 foot long and broad ; bracts at the divisions in., elliptic, sometimes subpersistent. 

 Flowers very nearly as in E. Ribes. This has been taken for E. garcini&folia, Wall., 

 which is a somewhat shining Malayan form of E. Eibes. 



5. E. adnata, Bedd. ms. ; leaves broadly oblong entire glabrous base 

 obtuse, panicle compound branches and pedicels very stout pubescent, pedicels 

 scarcely so long as the flowers. Embelia, sp. 4, Bedd. For. Man. 138. 



DECCAN PENINSULA; Bolamputty Hills, alt. 5000 ft., Beddome. 



A large, scandent, epiphytic shrub (Beddome) ; branches stout, rugose, angular, 

 warted, pubescent towards the tips. Leaves 5-6 by 2-2| in., obtuse, acute or slightly 

 acuminate, coriaceous, red when young, nerves slender or obscure ; petiole - in. 

 Panicle 8 in. diam., reddish-brown ; branches rugose, thinly pubescent. Flowers 

 nearly as of E. Ribes, the calyx-teeth rather more acute. Ovary globose, not conic 

 upwards. Neither E. coriacea, Wall., nor any of the allied Malayan species, has such 

 stout panicle-branches and pedicels. 



6. E. canescens, Jack. ; Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey $ Watt. ii. 

 292, and Cat. 2311; leaves ovate or obovate-oblong narrowed at the apex 

 rounded on the petiole entire, midrib beneath rusty-villous, panicle thin rusty- 

 villous, pedicels as long as the flowers and fruits. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 84 ; 

 Scheff. Myrsin. 42. 



PENANG ; Jack. MALACCA ; Maingay. 



A scandent shrub; branches einnamoneous-tomentose. Leaves 3 by 1^- in., shortly 

 obtusely acuminate, pubescent on both surfaces when young, nearly glabrous except 

 the midrib beneath when old, membranous, nerves prominent ; petiole ^ in., glandular. 

 Panicles 2-4 in. ; pedicels longer than the flowers in Wallich's examples ; but Scheffer 

 (Mrysin. 31) diagnoses the species as having pedicels shorter than the flowers and 

 fruits. Flowers as in E. Ribes, but fulvous-villous ; petals hairy on both surfaces. 

 Fruit | in. long, rather larger than in E. Ribes. 



7. E. Ziixnpani, Scheff. Myrsin. 37; leaves oblong subobtuse rusty-villous 

 beneath, pafnicle rusty-villous, pedicels shorter than the flowers, bracts linear 

 minute. E. villosa, Wall. Cat. 2313 chiefly, not of A. DC. 



MALACCA; Maingay. DISTRIB. Sumatra. 



A scandent shrub ; branches villous. Leaves 2| by | in., exactly oblong with 

 parallel sides, or slightly wider upwards and obscurely obovate, coriaceous, base 

 rounded; petiole | in. Panicles compound, 2-5 in. diam., branches 1-4 in. ; pedicels 

 0-| in. Calyx rusty-pubescent. Corolla ^ 5 in. long, puberulous hardly pubescent 

 within and without. This is probably what Wallich originally meant to be his 

 E. villosa, but he described under that name the very different plant mixed with it, 

 which is only a pubescent form probably of E. robusta, Roxb. 



8. E. amentacea, Clarke ; leaves oblong subobtuse rusty-villous beneath, 

 panicle rusty-villous, pedicels shorter than the flowers, bracts in. ovate- 

 oblong. 



MALACCA ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3548). 



Griffith's examples (marked by him Samara?) are young males; the branches of 

 the panicle resembling catkins from the close imbrication of the bracts on all sides. 

 Except as to these bracts, the plant is so exactly like E. Limpani that it may prove 

 to be an abnormal form of that species. The flowers, however (males), appear per- 

 fectly developed and normal. 



** Inflorescence axillary. 



9. E. floribunda, Wall, in Roxb. Fl Ind. ed. Carey $ Watt. ii. 291, and 

 Cto.2305; leaves long-lanceolate acuminate entire glabrous base obtuse orrounded, 

 racemes panicled glabrous. A. DC. P)-odr. viii. 85 ; Kurz For. FL ii. 102, in 



