Eimbetia.) 7 MYRSINER. 101 
EMBELIA, Burm. 
Calyx more or less deeply 5-cleft or -parted, the lobes convolute 
in bud. Petals 5, distinct from the base, imbricate. Stamens 5 
the filaments opposite to the petals and at the base adnate to them, 
filiform or thick ; anthers much shorter than, or as long as, the fila- 
ments, ovoid, the cells ovate, opening by a longitudinal slit and almost 
divided into 2 by a longitudinal nerve. Ovary usually minute, 1- 
celled, with 4 to 1 ovules attached to the minute or obsolete central 
placenta; style short, with a capitate and obscurely lobed stigma. 
Drupes globular, containing a 1-seeded thin-walled nut.—Scandent 
shrubs, with usually entire leaves. Flowers minute, often (by abor- 
tion of the pollen or the ovules) almost dioecious, in axillary 
racemes or terminal panicles. 
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X Inflorescence terminal, or terminal and azillary; fila- 
_ ments short and thick; leaves glabrous; flowers 5- 
merous, 
Branchlets and inflorescence greyish or tawny-velvety or puberu- 
lous ; Woh terete pedicels! ch go) lade eit pURRibes. 
As former, but the velvety pubescence always greyish; flowers 
Sessile . : . g ‘ 3 fi = : : . E. sessiliflora, 
All parts, also the inflorescence, quite glabrous ; pedicels 4-cornered Jloribunda. 
x X rescence axillary only; filaments longer than the 
anthers, slender and filiform; young shoots and 
leaves beneath more or less pubescent, at least along 
the midrib, rarely glabrous. 
O Flowers 5-merous.—Erect or scandent large shrubs. 
: + Leaves long-petioled. 
Leaves 3-5 in, long ; racemes elongate; pedicels short . . - £. robusta, 
ves 2-2) in. long; racemes short; pedicels very long and 
slender , E. vestita. 
Tt Leaves almost sessile, }-1 in. long, not pellucid- 
dotted ; racemes very short and almost umbel-like. EB. parviflora. 
OO Flowers 4-merous; leaves }-1 in. long, serra’ 3- 
thed at the apex, glabrous, conspicuously gland- - 
dotted beneath ; racemes very short and almost 
Wmibel-like i. See vi uy . E. myrtillus. 
apiculate, 14-3 in. long, entire, pergamaceous, glabrous, the 
‘erves and veins numerous and thin ; flowers minute, white, on 1-14 
lin. long puberulous pedicels, in slender velvety racemes, forming 
slender, greyish or tawny-velvety panicles in the axils of the upper 
eaves and at the end of the branchlets ; bracts subulate, minute and 
rdly } lin. long ; calyx puberulous, the lobes broadly 3-angular, 
short, acute 3 petals oblong, rather acute, thick, nearly a line long, 
