Amblyanthus.'] LXXXVIII. MYRSINEJI. (C. B. Clarke.) 533 



0. A1VXBLYANTHUS, A. DC. 



A small, glabrous shrub. Leaves petioled, narrowly lanceolate, slightly 

 crenate-serrate. Umbels compound, sessile, terminal on lateral branches leafy 

 at their summits. Flowers small ; buds obtuse. Calyx-tube obconic ; lobes 5. 

 Corotta-lobes 5, obovate, ernarginate, twisted to the right in bud. Stamens 5, 

 inserted at the throat of the corolla, filaments short ; anthers ovate, united by 

 their margins, dehiscing by slits inwards. Ovary oblong, narrowed into a 

 short cylindric style ; stigma small, discoid ; ovules few, immersed in a globose 

 placenta. Fruit not known. 



A. g-landulosus, A. DC. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 2, xvi. 83, t. 6, and in DC. 



Prodr. viii. 91. Ardisia glandulosa, Roxb. Sort. Beng. 16, FL Ind. ed. Carey 

 4- Wall. ii. 276 ; Wall. Cat. 2265 (not of Blume). A. Roxburghiana, Dietr. 

 Syn. PL i. 617. 



SYLHET ; Wallich. KHASIA, MTS., alt. 2000 ft. ; below Cherra, H. f.$T.; Bor 

 Pani, below Nunklow, J. D. H., Simons. 



Leaves 7 by 1^ in., acuminate, denticulate or entire, base cuneate, primary nerves 

 slender, oblique; petiole \ in. Flowering branches rising obliquely from near 

 the summit of the stem, naked below, peduncle-like, usually with 34 leaves near 

 their summit. Peduncles 2-3 in., subumbelled, slender, curving ; pedicels - in., 

 numerous, subumbelluled ; bracteoles or caducous. Calyx-lobes -^ in., ovate. 

 Corolla-lobes -$ in., but slightly overlapping in the bud, recurved in flower. 



10. 2EGXCERAS, Gaertn. 



A small, glabrous tree ; branches cylindric. Leaves scattered, petioled, 

 obovate, entire, coriaceous, 1-nerved. Umbels sessile, axillary, terminal or 

 leaf-opposed ; bracts ; pedicels filiform. Flowers hermaphrodite, white. 

 Calyx-lobes 5, imbricate. Corolla-tube short ; segments 5, acute, twisted to the 

 right in bud. Stamens 5, on the corolla-tube ; filaments linear, hairy at the 

 base; anthers cordate-lanceolate, dehiscing longitudinally, cells transversely 

 septate. Ovary oblong, narrowed into a filiform style, stigma small ; ovules 

 many, immersed in a central globose placenta. Fruit cylindric, curved, acute, 

 coriaceous, striated, ] -seeded, at length dehiscing longitudinally. Seed conform 

 to the fruit, exalbumiuous, germinating within the pericarp ; radicle inferior, 

 long, enlarged at the base ; cotyledons very short. 



JE. majus, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 216, t. 46, fig. 1 ; Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 130 ; 

 A. DC. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 2, xvi. t. 9 A, and in DC. Prodr. viii. 142 ; Wight III. 

 t. 146 ; Scheff. Myrsin. 97 ; Dak. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 137 ; Bedd. Fl. Syh\ Anal. 

 PL xix. fig. 3. JE. fragrans, Koen. Ann. Bot. i. 129, t. 3 ; Wall. Cat. 2326 ; 

 Wight in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 84, t. 21 ; Grab. Cat. Bomb. PL 104 ; Griff. 

 Notul. iv. 294. M. obovatum and ferreum, Blume Bijd. 693. -E. floridum, 

 JRoem. # Sch. Syst. iv. 512; A. DC. in DC. I.e. 143; Scheff. I.e. 09. A. 

 nigricans, A. Rich, in Voy. Astrol. ii. 57, t. 21 ; A. DC. I. c. M. minus, A. DC, 

 1. c. (not of Gaertn.}. ^E. Malaspinaea, A. DC. I. c. M. corniculata, Blanco 

 Fl. Filip. 79 ; Kurz For. FL ii. 114, and in Journ. As. Soc. 1879, pt. ii. 227. 

 Rhizophora corniculata, Linn. Sp. PL 635. R. ^Egiceras, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 

 Gmel. vii. 747. Malaspimea laurifolia, Presl. Rel. Ilaenk. ii. 68, t. Ql.Rheede 

 Hort. Mai. vi. t. 36. 



Sea-coasts, from SCINDE to SINGAPORE, especially in the mangrove swamps. 

 DISTRIB. Tropical shores nearly of the whole world. 



A shrub, or tree 15-20 ft. Leaves 3 by l in., obtuse, base cuneate; petiole i in. 

 Pedicels % in., numerous. Calyx-lobes l in., broad, much imbricate, persistent, 

 closely embracing the base of the fruit. Corolla-lobes % in., almost horny. Anthers 

 exserted, versatile. Fruits 1-1^ by in., tapering to an acute apex. 



