416 LXVII. MYRSINACEjE [Myrsine 



variable tree. Mez restricts his Bapanea capitellata to the forms with sessile or nearly 

 sessile fl. and classes those with pedicellate fl. (including some new species established 

 by him) as follows : Western Peninsula : B. Wightiana, striata and daphnoides, Burma : 

 B. hicida and Griffithiana. 



2. M. semiserrata, "Wall. Outer Himalaya from the Beas eastwards 3-9,000 ft. 

 (Bains, Gaunta, Garhw.). Khasi hills, Manipur. Hills east of Toungoo 6-7,200 ft. 

 Upper Burma. Yunnan. A shrub or small, sometimes a middle-sized tree, quite 

 glabrous, 1. thinly coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, entire or in the upper half with 

 sharp spinulose serratures, blade 3-5, petiole J in. long. Fl. white, with a slight pink 

 tinge, fr. red, J-J in. diam. on pedicels £ in. long. 



3. M. africana, Linn. ; Collett Simla Fl. 304, fig. 94. Afghanistan, Baluchistan. 

 Trans Indus. Salt range. Outer N. W. Himalaya from Nepal westwards 3-9,000 ft. 

 Azores, Mountains of East and South Africa. Western Asia. China. Vern. Kukal, 

 Haz. ; Gugil, Kashm. ; Chitring, Bash. ; Banwan, Jauns. A small shrub, branches 

 hairy. L. A-l in. long, minutely cuspidate-serrate, fl. dioicous in axillary clusters of 

 4-6, stigma large capitate, fimbriate. Berries usually solitary, red or black, ^ in. 

 diam., often densely covered with cylindrical capitate protuberances (M. scabra, 

 Gfertner). 



3. EMBELIA/Burm.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 512. 



Shrubs or small trees, as a rule evergreen, most species climbing, 1. usually 

 entire. Fl. small, polygamous, often dioicous, in simple or compound, often 

 panicled racemes. Calyx free, persistent, petals 'free or slightly coherent at 

 base, filaments more or less adnate to petals, style cylindric, stigma capitellate, 

 ovules few. Calyx, petals, anthers and ovary usually with glandular dots. 

 Seed one, albumen more or less ruminate. Species 60-90, tropics of the Old 

 World. 



A. Petals imbricate in bud, fl. 5-merous. 



(a) Inflorescence terminal. 



1. E. Ribes, Burm.— Syn. E. glandulifera, Wight Ic. t. 1207. Vern. 

 Waiwarang, Mar. ; Silgilla, Ass. 



A large climbing shrub, 1. glabrous, coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, acuminate, 

 blade 3-4 in., narrowed into a more or less marginate or glandular petiole -J- in. 

 long ; sec. n. slender, numerous, glands sometimes along midrib. Fl. greenish- 

 yellow, more or less pubescent, on pedicels as long as fl., longer than bracts, 

 in large terminal more or less pubescent panicles. Berry black, succulent, 

 wrinkled when dry, a in. diam. 



Sikkim, foot of hills, ascending to 4,000 ft. Assam. Manipur 3-5,000 ft. Chittagong. 

 Burma, Upper and Lower, 3,000 to 6,500 ft. Hills of the Western Peninsula, in ever- 

 green forest. PL Nov.-Febr. Ceylon, moist region to 4,000 ft. Malay Penins. and 

 Archip. Tonkin. China. 2. E. sessiliflora, Kurz, Burma, Upper and Lower, rare. An 

 evergreen scandent shrub, 1. ovate, entire, glabrous. PI. sessile, otherwise similar to 

 E. Biles. 



3. E. adnata, Bedd. Palghat hills. A very large climber, branchlets stout, angular, 

 warty, young foliage red, 1. coriaceous, blade 4-6, pet. stout J in. long, terminal panicle 

 large, ramification stout. 4. E. microcalyx, Kurz. Nicobars. Scandent, branchlets 

 and underside of 1. and panicles brown villous, 1. elliptic, obtuse at both ends. 



(b) Inflorescence axillary. 



5. E. robusta, Roxb. ; Bedd. Manual t. xix. fig. 2.— Syn. E. Tsjeriam 

 Cottam, A. DC ; Wight Ic. t. 1209. Vern. Gaia, Dun ; Nununta, Uriya ; 

 Eikinwenici, Burm. ; Baibrang, Bebrang, Bhingi, Hind. ; Waiwarang, 

 Ambuti, Mar. 



A large shrub or small tree with long spreading and scrambling branches, 

 branchlets, petioles and underside of 1. more or less rusty-pubescent, some- 

 times glabrous. L. membranous, entire or slightly denticulate, elliptic, blade 

 2-5, petiole slender, \-\ in. long, sec. n. slender but conspicuous beneath. 

 Racemes 1-2 in. long, sometimes 2 or 3 from one leaf axil. Fr. red, nearly 

 dry, longitudinally ribbed, \-\ in. diam. 



