Embelia. PENTANDRIA MONOOYNIA;- 289 



flowers are particularly small and delicate, collected in little oblong, 

 sub-sessile, axillary racemes. They appear in January. 



Obs. by N. IV. 



I have only seen the fruit of this species which was communi- 

 cated by the late Mr. Smith from Se'lliet. — Berries very numerous, 

 approximate, globular, pedicelled, forming short cylindric racemes ; 

 emootb, red, as large as a pepper-corn, slightly retuse at both ends, 

 pointed with the persistent st)le. Integument double ; exterior 

 (arillus) crustaceous, elegantly striated with converging longitudinal 

 lines, shining within- Interior ferruginous, lamellated, entering the 

 pits of the per/sperm which is horny, round. The rest as in the first 

 species. — N. W. 



Additional species by N. W. 



4. E. lillosa, Wall. 



Rambling to a great extent. Branches with numerous callous 

 dots ; villous. Leaves o\al or roundish-oval, with a short acumen ; 

 base acute ; villous underneath. Racemes simple, axillary, fascicled, 

 long and slender, villous. 



This species was introduced into the botanic garden together with, 

 E, robusla, R. by the late Mr. W. Roxburgh from Rajmahul. It 

 blossoms during the hot season. 



A iarge, rambling, and climbing, spreading, ramous shrub. Bran' 

 ches round, long, somewhat zig-zag, villous, marked with innumera- 

 ble callous, round dots ; the upper ends, as well as all the young 

 parts, densely covered with ferruginous tomentum. — Leaves scat- 

 tered, from oval to sub-rotund-oval, apex roundish with a short, broad 

 acumen, base tapering, acute, perfectly entire, ciliate, slightly waved 

 and uneven, from four, to five inches long, dark-green, smooth above, 

 except along the primary vessels ; soft, villous, somewhat hoary 

 underneath, minutely dotted, the rib and the sub-opposite, parallel 



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