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Ardisia,] MYRSINE. 643 
518. Embelia Burm. 
Shrubs, usually sarmentose, or small trees; leaves entire or 
toothed; petiole often margined or glandular. Flowers small, 
lygamous, mostly dicwcious, white or greenish-yellow, in axillary 
or terminal, simple or compound racemes, or subfascicled; bracts 
usually small; bracteoles 0. Sepals connate in a small, free, per- 
sistent, 5-lobed or 4-lobed calyx. Petals 5 or A, free or slightly 
connate at the base, elliptic, imbricate or rarely contorted in bud, 
Stamens 5 or 4, the filaments opposite and more or less adnate to 
ovules few. Fruit a small, globose, 1-seeded or rarely 2-seeded 
Leaves glabrous, entire ; inflorescence terminal as well as axillary; 
panicles grey-pubescent ; pedicels longer th 
Bikmnents short ANd AiO’ <.cicsvesvereseosensestvssesss bss iiersseseoeesstoer see 
Leaves pubescent benea 
serrulate; inflorescence axillary 
cels shorter than the flowers and fruits; filaments slender, longer than 
ANGHELS ....00-ceeoeaveee seaveas vos senses slveueluesuasmemsectae end aoeeeers robusta, 
1154. Empetia Rises Burm. ; F..L i. 586; F. BL ni. 518; 
B. 19 
Chittagong. 
A scandent shrub. Hind. Babering; Beng. Bhai- 
birrung. 
1155. Empezia ropusta Roxb.; F. I. i. 586; F. B. I. iii. 615; 
E. D. E. 202. 
Behar; Chota Nagpur; W. Bengal; E. Bengal, Mymen- 
singh. 
A ae rambling shrub, or small tree with sprawling 
branches. Hind. Baberéng; Beng. Bhai-birrung; 
Uriya Baibidanga. 
519. Ardisia Sw. 
Shrubs or small trees ; leaves petioled. Flowers hermaphrodite, 
in axillary or terminal, simple or compound umbels or racemes; 
bracts small, deciduous, very rarely persisting. Sepals connate 
