514 Lxxxviii. MTESiNBj;. (0. B. Clarke.) [Emhelia. 



acute, very coriaceous, nerves slender ; petiole J-| in., very stout. Panicles often a 

 foot long and broad ; bracts at the divisions ^ in., elliptic, sometimes subpersistent. 

 Flowers very nearly as in E. Sites. — This has been taken for E. gardnieefolia. Wall., 

 which is a someirhat shining Malayan form of E. Bibes. 



5. E. adnata, Bedd. ms. ; leaves broadly oblong entire glabrous base 

 obtuse, panicle compound branches and pedicels very stout pubescent, pedicels 

 scarcely so long as the flowers. Embelia, sp. 4, Bedd. For, Man. 138. 



Dbccan Peninsula ; Bolamputty HUls, alt. 5000 ft., Beddome. 



A large, scandent, epiphytic shrub (Beddome) ; branches stout, rugose, angular, 

 warted, pubescent towards the tips. Leaves 6-6 by 2-2^ in., obtuse, acute or slightly 

 acaminate, coriaceous, red when young, nerves slender or obscure ; petiole ^-^ in. 

 Panicle 8 in. diam., reddish-brown ; branches rugose, thinly pubescent. Flowers 

 nearly as of E. Bibes, the calyx-teeth rather more acute. Oeary globose, not conic 

 upwards. — Neither E. coriacea, Wall., nor any of the allied Malayan species, has such 

 stout panicle-branches and pedicels. 



6. E. canescens, Jack. ; Wall, in Roxh. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey 8^ WaU. ii. 

 292, and Oat. 2311 ; leaves ovate or obovate-oblong narrowed at the apex 

 rounded on the pedole entire, midrib beneath rusty-villous, panicle thin rusty- 

 villous, pedicels as long as the flowers and fruite. A, DC. Pi'odr. viii. 84 ; 

 Scheff. Myrdn. 42. 



Penano; JacJc. Malacca; Maiiyay. 



A scandent shrub; branches einnamoneous-tomentose. Leaves 3 by 1^ in., shortly 

 obtusely acuminate, pubescent on both surfaces when young, nearly glabrous except 

 the midrib beneath when old, membranous, nerves prominent; petiole ^ in., glandular. 

 Panicles 2-4 in. ; pedicels longer than the flowers in Wallich's examples ; but Scheffer 

 (Mrysin. 31) diagnoses the species as having pedicels shorter than the flowers and 

 fruits. Flowers as in E. Bibes, but fulvous-villous ; petals hairy on both surfaces. 

 Fruit i in. long, rather lai^er than in E. Bibes. 



7. E. Xiimpanl, Scheff. Myrsin. 37; leaves oblong subobtuse rusty-viUous 

 beneath, panicle rusty-villous, pedicels shorter than the flowers, bracts linear 

 minute. E. villosa, Wall. Cat. 2318 chiefly, not of A. DC. 



Malacca; Maimgay. — Disteib. Sumatra. 



A scandent shrub ; branches villous. Leaves %\ by f in., exactly oblong with 

 parallel sides, or slightly wider upwards and obscurely obovate, coriaceous, base 

 rounded ; petiole | in. Panicles compound, 2-fl in. diam., branches 1-4 in. ; pedicels 

 0-| in. Calyx rusty-pubescent. Corolla i in. long, puberulous hardly pubescent 

 within and without.^ — This is probably what WalUch originally meant to be his 

 E. villosa, but he described under that name the very different plant mixed with it, 

 which is only a pubescent form probably of E. robusta, Eoxb. 



8. E. axnentacea, Cte'^; leaves oblong subobtuse rusty-villous beneath, 

 panicle rusty-villous, pedicels shorter than the flowers, bracts ^ in. ovate- 

 oblong. 



Malacca ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3S48). 



Griffith's examples (marked by him Samara?) are young males; the branches of 

 the panicle resembling catkins from the close imbrication of the bracts on all sides. 

 Except as to these bracts, the plant is so exactly like E. JAm/pani that it may prove 

 to be an abnormal form of that species. The flowers, however (males), appear per- 

 fectly developed and normal. 



** Ir^loreicence axillary, 



9. E. florlbunda, WaU. in Boxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey Sr Watt. ii. 291, and 

 Ca^ 2305; leaves long-lanceolateacuminateentireglabrous base obtuse orrounded, 

 racemes panicled glabrous. A. DC. Prodr, viii. 85 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 102, in 



