jLmbelia. pentANdiua monogynia. 287 



which it is highly probable is the same as that just described. — Sal- 

 vadora persica (see vol. i. of this work, p. 40 f ) though approaching 

 to it in General appearance, differs widely in the structure of the seed, 

 which has been described and delineated bv the younger Gaertner, 

 Carp. iii. 228. t 222. Pohet (Encycl. bot. vi. 196) quotes it as a 

 synonym together with Antidesma Ghceso&inbiUa Gaert. Carp. i. 

 189, I 39, under Embelia indica, which is the same as E. Ribes 

 mentioned by Lamarck in the preceding part of that work, vol. ii. 

 354. — I have had abundance of specimens of it from Silhet. The 

 leaves as well as the flowers are marked with copious ; minute, glan- 

 dular dots, as is the case with all the other species j the margin of 

 the petiol is not so crispate as in E. canescens. 



1 have met with a slight variety of this shrub on the island of 

 Pinang and Singapore (on Palmer's hill), in flower and fruit from 

 .August to October; its leaves are smaller, more lanceolate, rather 

 narrower, terminated by a long, linear, bluntish acumen; in other 

 respects it agrees so well with the Sjlhet plant, that I cannot venture 

 to separate them, especially as there are not a few examples of a 

 singular coincidence of the Malayan flora with that of the eastern 

 parts of Bengal, such as Clerodendron nutans, Wall., Bignonia mill" 

 tijuga, Wall., Xanthopliyllumflatescens, Roxb. and others. 



Embelia differs from Ardisia only in its valvate aestivation ; and from 

 My nine in having hermaphrodite flowers. I may remark here that 

 a marginally imbricate aestivation is often extremely difficult and 



only by analogy to be discerned from a valvate one Perhaps all the 



three genera, with Othera and On'/aof Thunberg, and several others 

 ought to be united, as has been suggested by Mr. Brown, in his re. 

 marks on Myrsine and the family to which it belongs, in the match- 

 less prodromus nov. holl. i. 532 et seqv.— N. W. 



2. E. robusta, R. 



Arboieous. Leaves from oblong to oval, smooth. Race.nes ax- 

 illary, and terminal, solitary. 



