290 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Embelia. 



very oblique nerves elevated, veins reticulate, especially near the 

 margin, where they form arched anastomoses. — Tetiot round, slen- 

 der, villous, half an inch long, only furrowed near the base of the 

 leaf. — Racemes long, slender, cylindiic, axillary, mostly two 01 three 

 fascicled, sometimes solitary, short-peduncled, clothed with coj ious, 

 soft, articulate, short hairs, spreading, from four to six inches lono-. 

 — Flowers small, whitish, vejy numerous, on short pedicels, support- 

 ed by capillary, villous trades ; calyx, corolla mid even the filaments 

 with resinous dots; petals pubescent; in other respects precisely as 

 in the next species. 



Obs. It comes near to E robmta, but differs in its hairiness and 

 the long, slender, fascicled racemes. — N. W. 



5. E. nutans, Wall. 



Shrubby, nodding, at length pendulous, with very dense, slender 

 branches. Leaves sub-bifarious, approximate, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 smooth and shining, waved. Racemes numerous, short, two or three 

 together in axillary fascicles. 



Introduced into the botanic garden at Calcutta from Silhet, in- 

 1813, by the late Mr. Smith. It blossoms in the cold season front 

 the beginning of December to the middle of January. Its fruit has 

 not yet been produced here. 



A shrub, from three to five feet high, very thickly branched, 

 nodding. Branches very long, slender, and flexible, the uppermost 

 together with the apex of the stem pendulous; round, covered with 

 grey, dotted bark ; while young covered with soft, rust-coloured pu- 

 bescence.— Leaves alternate, sub-bifarious, very numerous and ap- 

 proximate, many times longer than their interstices, somewhat pen- 

 dulous, coriaceous, lanceolate, most entire, acuminate, waved, slightly- 

 plicate, smooth, of a bright green colour, shining above, pale and 

 minutely dotted underneath, with a pallid, pubescent, or smooth rib 

 and sub-transverse, parallel, capillary nerves, which unite in sub- 

 marginal, reticulate arches. — Petiols very short, pubescent, sulcate. 



