MYRSINE^E 191 



both surfaces ; petioles semiterete, channelled above, thickly glan- 

 dular-pubescent, tapering downwards and articulated with the 

 stem. 



No. 1. Broadly ovate or short elliptic, acute, serrate except 

 towards the base. 



No. 2. Elliptic, otherwise like the first. 



Nos. 3 and 4. Lanceolate-elliptic, acute, tapering and entire at 

 the base. 



Nos. 5-7. Lanceolate, acuminate, otherwise similar to Nos. 8 

 and 4. 



Embelia viridiflora, ScJieff. 



Ilypocotyl woody, 8-5 cm. long, about 8 mm. thick, terete, 

 glabrous, lenticelled, greyish-brown. 



Cotyledons shortly petioled, 2'5-3'5 cm. long, nearly 2 cm. 

 wide, elliptic-lanceolate, subacute at the base, penninerved, with 

 sunk midrib and an entire undulate margin, quite glabrous, some- 

 what leathery, shining dark green above, very slightly paler beneath, 

 very persistent. 



Stem like the hypocotyl, with internodes of very unequal length ; 

 the younger part succulent and bright green. 



Leaves entire, glabrous, coriaceous, intense green on both sides, 

 beset with black translucent glands of two forms, round and ob- 

 long or linear ; petioles short, flat or channelled above, somewhat 

 margined in the upper part by the decurrent lamina. 



The first leaf is very little above the cotyledons, and exactly like 

 them except for the translucent glands. 



Succeeding ones are only larger and more distant from each 

 other most of the glands are round, but some are oblong or 

 linear. 



This interesting plant presents interrupted growth within a small 

 space of time similar to that of many fruit trees. In the present 

 case four distinct growths occurred in the primary axis not more 

 than 10 cm. long, namely, one growth ending in the seed leaves 

 4*8 cm. long ; a second consisting of the first four internodes 

 8 mm. long ; the next about 2-8 cm. ; and the last only 1-5 cm. 



Furthermore the shoots of the stem bear one, two or more alter- 

 nate small leaves or scales on their lower part, and generally only 

 two well-formed leaves at the top. 



Ardisia crenulata, Vent. 



Fruit a drupe, globose, indented or umbilicate at the base, 

 minutely so at the apex, glabrous, deep bright red when mature ; 



