104 MYRSINER. [ Emébelia. 
Has.—Rather rare in the tropical forests along choungs of the Pegu 
Yomah.—s. 
6. E, 
all ogee and densely rusty-tomentose ; leaves small, distichous, 
filiform filaments, exserted ; drup obular, the size of a very 
small pea, smooth or indistinctly longitudinally striate, bluish black, 
crowned by the style, 1-seeded, 
Has.—Burma, probably Ava hills, 
7. E. myrti 
branchlets slender and rusty-pubescent ; leaves small, elliptical, on 
slender petioles a line long, serrately 3-toothed at the apex, $-$ in. 
long, coriaceous, glabrous, beneath covered with conspicuous (in a 
dried state hollow) glands, the nervature rather strong; flowers 
them; calyx glabrous, the lobes lanceolate, acute; petals linear- 
oblong, blunt, more than a line long ; stamens as long as the petals; 
filaments slender and much longer than the oblong anthers, 
Has,—Burma ; no locality given, 
MYRSINE, L. 
Flowers usually polygamously dioecious. Calyx 4- or 5-cleft ; 
corolla deeply 4- or 5-lobed, the lobes 
va i 
pes globular, containing a solitary by abortion 1-seeded crusta- 
ceous nut.—Small trees or shrubs, with coriaceous leaves. Flowers 
oe in sessile axillary umbels or clusters, Bracts minute, de- 
ciduous, / 
