-283 *£NTANDRIA MQWOGYNIA* Embelia, 



Trunk when Full grown about two feet in circumference, cover- 

 ed with scabrous, light brown baik. Branches and branch/ets very 

 numerous, and of great extent, the tender shoots hoary. — Leaves 

 alternate, petioled, oblong and elliptic, obtuse, finely veined, smooth; 

 from two to three inches long, and one or one and half broad. — 

 Petiols one-fifth or one-sixth the length of the leaves, margins some- 

 what winged. — Stipules none. — Panicles terminal, large, open, and 

 hoary. — Bractes ensiform, villous, one-flowered. — Flowers numer- 

 ous, very small, hoary, of a greenish yellow colour, — Calyx five-parted, 

 clothed with short, while hairs. — Petals five, oblong, concave, spread- 

 ing, hoary with short, soft, white hairs.- — Filaments five, very short, 

 and inserted into the middle of the petals. Anthers sub-sagittate, 

 resting on the exterior half of the petals. Germ round, one-celled, 

 containing a single ovalum attached to the bottom of the cell. 

 Style shoit. Stigma headed, sub-truncate.— Drupe the size of a grain 

 of black-pepper, round, crowned with a small point, smooth, suc- 

 culent, when ripe black, when dry wiinkled, and very much like that 

 spice, one-celled. ~Nut brittle, rugose, one-celled. — Seed solitary, 

 roundish, with a cavity at the base. Integuments two. — Perisperm 

 conform to the seed. — Embryo curved transversely, with the con- 

 vexity up. Cotyledons two, minute, oval, lodged on one side of the 

 base of the perisperm. Radicle filiform, of a curved, serpentine form, 

 ■with its apex near the margin of the perisperm considerably above 

 its base, on the side opposite to where the cotyledons are lodged, 

 nearly as in Gaertner's Anguillaria, and in Ardisia. 



The natives of the hills in the vicinity of Szlhet, where the plants 

 grow abundantly, gather the little drupes, aud when dry sell them 

 to the small traders in black-pepper, who fraudulently mix them 

 with that spice, whicU they so resemble as to render it almost 

 impossible to distinguish them by sight, and they are somewhat 

 spicy withal. 



Obs. by N. W. 

 Some confusion exists among authors respecting Burman'a plant. 



