Embelia.] LXXXVIII. MYRSINEJJ. (C. B. Clarke.) 515 



part. E. esculenta, Don Prodr. 147. Samara floribunda, Kurz in Journ. As. 

 Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 222 (syn. excl.). 



From NIPAL to BHOTAN and TENASSERIM, alt. 2-6000 ft. ; frequent. DISTRJB. 

 Java. 



A large, scandent shrub. Leaves 8 by 1-1 J in., or (above the racemes) sometimes 

 1 by 4" i-> muc h acuminate often caudate, shining, nerves numerous : petiole - in. 

 Racemes all axillary, usually much divided, often 8 in. Flowers, pedicels and fruits 

 much as in E. Ribes, but glabrous or very obscurely puberulous. This has been con- 

 founded by Kurz and others, with E. Ribes ; it has more acuminate leaves much more 

 rounded at the base, and glabrous panicles never terminal. 



10. E. robust a, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 16, and Fl. Ind. i. 587; leaves obovate- 

 oblong elliptic or obovate suddenly shortly acuminate undulate or obscurely 

 serrulate rusty-pubescent or rarely glabrous beneath reticulated, racemes 

 scarcely divided often fascicled more or less rusty-pubescent. Wall. Cat. 2308 ; 

 A. DC. Prodr. viii. 86 ; Bedd. For. Man. 137, and Anal. PL xix. fig. 2 ; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 284 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 102. E. ? reticulata, Wall. Cat. 6521. 

 E. villosa, Wall, in Roxb. FL Ind. ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 289, and Cat. 2313 in 

 part ; A. DC. I. c. 85. E. ? Tsjeriam-Oottam, A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 

 131, and Prodr. 1. c. 87 ; Wight Ic. 1. 1209. E. ? Basaal, A. DC. in Tram. Linn. 

 Soc. I. c. 1, and Prodr. I. c. 87 ; Dak. Sf Gibs. Bomb. FL 136. E. picta, A. DC. 

 Prodr. viii. 86. Samara ? picta, Wall. Cat. 2302. S. robusta, Kurz in Journ. 

 As. Soc. 1877, andpt. ii. 222. Ardisia ? Basaal and Tsjeriam-Oottam, Roem. 8f 

 Sch. Syst. iv. 517, 518. Rheede Hart. Mai. tt. 11, 12. 



Throughout INDIA, alt. 0-5000 ft. ; from the HIMALAYA (west-ward to the Jumna, 

 Brandts) to CEYLON and TENASSERIM, very common. 



A large, rambling shrub, or small tree ; branches glabrous. Leaves 3 by 2 in., 

 sometimes 7 by 3 in., base cuneate, margin usually undulate subentire (in a form of 

 East Bengal and Birma regularly somewhat closely toothed), more or less pubescent 

 beneath, or when mature quite glabrous (the type of Roxburgh's plant, much the less 

 common form ; see Wallich's note in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey <$[ Wall. ii. 288) ; 

 petiole ^-^ in. Racemes 1-2 in.; bracts ^ in., linear; pedicels shorter than the 

 flowers and fruits. Corolla in. diam., puberulous within and without. Berry - 

 in. diam., red, nearly dry. 



V&.ferruginea, Wall. Cat. 2310 (sp.) ; branches rusty-tomentose, leaves beneath 

 and racemes rusty-villous or subtomentose. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 86. Pegu and 

 Tenasserim; Wallich, &c. Very different in appearance from Roxburgh's original 

 smooth E. robusta, but (as Kurz states) it appears impossible to separate E. villosa on 

 the one side from E. robusta, on the other from E. ferruginea. 



11. E. parviflora, Wall. Cat. 2307 ; leaves small elliptic or ovate 

 entire rusty-pubescent beneath base rounded, racemes shortened almost to 

 umbels rusty-pubescent. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 86 ; Scheff. Myrsin. 44 ; Kurz 

 For. FL ii. 104. Samara parviflora, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 

 223. Celastrinea, Griff. Itin. Notes, 85, n. 1226. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 0-4000 ft. ; Wallich, Griffith, &c. DISTRIB. Upper Birma, 

 Sumatra. 



A scandent shrub ; branches rusty-pubescent. Leaves ^-1 by | in., acute or 

 obtuse ; petiole scarcely ^ in. Pedicels in., rusty -pubescent, subumbelled on a 

 peduncle - in. Petals ^ in., oblong, imbricate. Filaments slender, three times as 

 long as the anthers. Berry \ in. diam. Kurz is mistaken in saying that Griffith 

 collected this plant (Kew Distrib. n. 3545) at Ava ; Griffith has ticketed it "Lakhat," 

 which is in Khasia nearly due north from Sylhet Station. 



SECT. II. SAMARA, Lmn. Flowers in general 4-merous. Racemes axillary. 

 Leaves entire, or very nearly so. (Choripetalum, A. DC.). 



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