EMBELIA.] MYRSINACEJS. 7 



J-superior, 5-fid. Corolla perigynous, subcampanulate, 5-partite. 

 Stamens 6, alternating with, starninodes, filaments very short. 

 Ovary subglohose, style short ; ovules many, anatropous. Capsule 

 f -infer., ovoid, crown 5-valved. Seeds many, angular ; hilum 

 basilar. Species 8, in temperate regions of both hemispheres. 



S. Valerandi, Linn. Sp. PI. 44$ ; Royle III. 310; F. B. I. Hi, 506 

 Collett Fl. Siml. 303. (Brook-weed.) 



A glabrous perennial herb ; root-stock short. Stem -2 feet, erect decum- 

 bent or ascending, often rooting at the base. Leaves 1-4 in. long, 

 entire, radical rosulats. Racemes ^-6 in. long ; pedicels filiform, spread- 

 i ng in fruit, bracteate above the middle. Calyx hemispheric, lobes 

 triangular. Corolla % in. in diam. ; lobes short, obtuse. Capsule 

 shorter than the calyx. Seeds rugose. 



Bundelkhaud (Edge^orth), rare. DISTRIB.: Punjab Plain and W. Him . 

 up to 4,000 feet, extending westward to Europe and found in most 

 temperate regions. 



LXV.-MYRSINACEJE. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, undivided, usually gland 

 dotted, exstipulate. Flowers 2 -sexual or polygamo-dioecious, regular. 

 Calyx inferior (in Mossa more or less adnate to the ovary) ; limb 4-6- 

 (usually 5-) lobed, persistent and somewhat enlarged in fruit. Corolla- 

 tube short or none ; segments usually 5, rarely 3 or 7, contorted or 

 imbricate, rarely valvate. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes and 

 opposite to them, free or adnate to the tube ; filaments usually short, 

 free or more or less connate (in Reptonia alternating with staminodes). 

 Anthers dehiscing longitudinally, rarely by terminal pores. Ovary 

 1-celled, globose or ovoid, usually free (J -infer, in Mcesa), usually 

 narrowed into a simple style ; stigma capitate, rarely shortly lobed ; 

 ovules few or many, inserted on a free central placenta. Fruit 

 usually small and globose. 



Cor.-lobes imbricate in bud, anthers not 1 onger 

 than the filaments, ovules few . 1 EMBELIA. 



Cor.-lobes contorted yi bud, anthers much 

 longer than the filaments, ovules many . . 2 AEDISIA. 



1. EMBELIA, Burm. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 512. 



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

 .petiole often margined or glandular. Racemes axillary or terminal, 



