Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 113 



near the apex and along the margin, which is often recurved ; -4 to "7 in. 

 long, -3 to '6 in. broad ; midrib prominent ; main-nerves 6 pairs, arched 

 upwards and joining in an intramarginal nerve ; secondary nerves similar, 

 reticulations prominent; petiole "1 in. long, villous. Flowers tetramerous, 

 very small, in umbels or very short racemes on short axillary arrested 

 branches, '1 to '15 in. long, shorter than the leaves ; bracts minute, sub- 

 ulate. Calyx-lobes ovate, glandular ciliate, densely papillose within, -05 in. 

 long, tube very short. Corolla-lobes free, oblong, rounded at apex, -1 in. 

 long, glandular-ciliate on the edges, conspicuously marked with black, 

 oblong or linear glands. Stamens longer than the corolla-lobes in ^ 

 flowers, shorter in 2 ; anthers oblong, often cordate, with conspicuous 

 warts at the insertion of the dorsifixed filaments which spring from 

 the base of the petals. Ovary ovoid ; style slender ; stigma capitate, 

 4-cleft. Berry globose, red or black, -15 to -2 in. in. diam., promi- 

 nently gland-dotted, tipped with the persistent style and stigma. 

 Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 516 ; Mez Monog. Myrs. 322. 

 Myrsine Myrtillus, Hook. Ic. PL t. 825. Samara Myrtillus, Kurz in 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. 223. 



Pekak : Scortechini 762 ; Wray 1565, 3818, on Gunong Bubu 

 and Gunong Brumber, at 5,000 to 7,000 feet. Malacca : summit of 

 Mount Ophir, Griffith (K.D.) 3542 ; Lobb ; Bidley. — Distrib. Burma, 

 Griffith. 



13. Embelia parviflora. Wall. Cat. 2307 (1829). A slender climbing 

 shrub reaching 60 feet in length ; branches and branchlets densely rusty- 

 villous, slender. Leaves chartaceous ; distichous, ovate, obtusely acute 

 at the apex, truncate at base ; glabrous except on the midrib beneath ; 

 margin slightly recurved ; glandular dots many, prominent, scattered, 

 more numerous towards the apex ; -7 to 1"5 in. long, -5 to "75 in. broad ; 

 midrib prominent beneath, impressed above ; main-nerves 8 to 10 

 pairs, slender, curving upwards towards the margin ; secondary nerves 

 slender, many, reticulations prominent ; petiole scarcely '05 in. long, 

 rusty-villous, channelled above. Inflorescence of very short axillary few- 

 flowered subumbellate racemes, $• 4-6-flowered with -15 in. long slender 

 pedicels, 2 1-3-flowered with -05 in. slender pedicels ; bracts in both 

 minute subulate ; flowers pentamerous; buds globose. Calyx-lobes ohlong, 

 fimbriate-ciliate, "05 in. long, with few (about 6) large brown glands, 

 glandular- villous without, tube very short, ciliae moniliform. Corolla- 

 lobes ovate, rounded, ciliate, -075 in. long, -05 in. broad, with few unequal- 

 sized prominent brown glands. Stamens in S^ flowers longer than 

 corolla-lobes, in $ much shorter ; anthers reniform, in <? apiculate 

 and warted at back at the insertion of the dorsifixed, rather long fila- 

 ments which spring from near the base of the corolla-lobes. Ovary 



