Embelia.] MYRSiNACEiE. 205 



minutely pubescent branching racemes, forming a terminal panicle. Sepals 

 minute, acute. Petals spreading, about 1 line long, pubescent on the edges. 

 Stamens rather shorter. Eemes small, globular. 



Common in ravines, Champion and others. Widely spread over southern India, from 

 Ceylon and the Peninsula to the Archipelago. Although the flowers arc usually pentamerous, 

 some tetramerous ones may occasionally he met with. 



8. SAMARA, Linn. 

 (Choripetalum, A. DC.) 



Flowers of Emhelia, except that they are constantly tetramerous, and the 

 stamens longer than the petals. — Shrubs often half-trailing. Flowers in short 

 axillary racemes. 



A small genus, with the same Asiatic and African range as Emhelia. 



Leaves ohtuse, not 2 in. long. Sepals ovate, ohtuse \. S. ohovata. 



Leaves 2 to 4 in. loug. Sepals lanceolate, acute 2. 6'. longifolia. 



1. S. obovata, Bentli. in Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 301. A glabrous shrub, 

 with straggling half-trailing branches. Leaves fi*om obovate to narrow-ob- 

 long, always obtuse, 1 to 2 in. long, naiTowed into a petiole of 2 or 3 lines, 

 coriaceous, quite entire, smooth above, veined, and somewhat glaucous under- 

 neath. Flowers 6 to 1 together, in axillary racemes, so short as to be almost 

 reduced to clusters. Pedicels seldom 1 line long. Calyx-lobes veiy short 

 and obtuse. Petals yellowish- white, about 1 line long. Stamens rather 

 longer. Fruit globidar, 2 or 3 lines diameter. — Choripetalum obocatmn, Benth. 

 in Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 490. C. Benthamianum, Hance in Walp. Ann. iii. 10. 



Common in ravines in the Happy Valley woods, and at West Point, Champion, Wilford ; 

 also Hance and Wright. Not known from elsewhere. 



2. S. longifolia, Banth. n. sp. Allied to the last species, but the leaves 

 much longer, although not broader, usually about 3 in., sometimes 4 in. long, 

 obtusely acuminate and narrowed into a petiole of 3 or 4 lines. Racemes 

 much looser, about \ in. long. Pedicels 1 to 1| lines long. Flowers larger, 

 and the sepals lanceolate, veiy acute, fidl ^ line long. 



Hongkong, Harland and Hance. Not seen in any other collection. 



4, MYBSIJSTE, Linn. 



Calyx 4- or 5-lobed. Corolla deeply 4- or 5-lobed. Stamens as many, 

 with very short filaments ; the anthers much longer, erect and lanceolate. 

 Ovary free. Style short, mth a capitate or fiinged stigma. — Siirubs or small 

 trees. Leaves coriaceous, entire or rarely toothed. Flowers small, on short 

 pedicels, in dense axiUary clusters. 



A considerable genus, spread over the tropical and subtropical regions both of the New 

 and the Old World. 



1. M. capitellata, TFall. ; DC. Brocl viii. 94 ; Jright, Ic. /. 1211. A 

 glabrous shrub or small tree. Leaves varying from broadly elliptical or oblong 

 or almost obovate, to narrows-oblong, or almost lanceolate in the Hongkong 

 specimens, usually 3 to 4 in. long, and i to 1 in. broad, obtuse or obtusely 

 acuminate, narrowed into a short stout petiole, coriaceous, quite entire, the 

 lateral veins usually inconspicuous. Flowers small, white. Pedicels 1 or 



