^lielid.] MYRSINACEiE. 205 



minutely pubescent branching racemes, forming a terminal panicle. Sepals 

 mmute, acute. Petals spreading, about 1 line long, pubescent on the edges. 

 Stamens rather shorter. Benies small, globular. 



Common in ravines. Champion and others. Widely spread over southern India, from 

 Ceylon and the Peninsula to the Archipelago. Although the flowers are usually pentamerous, 

 some tetramerous ones may occasion^y be met with. 



3. SAMABA, Linn. 

 (Choripetalum, J. DC.) 



Elowers of Emhelia, except that they are constantly tetramerous, and the 

 stamens longer than the petals. — Shrubs often half-trailing. Flowers in short 

 axillary jjracemes . 



A small genus, with the same Asiatic and African range as Mmbelia. 

 Leaves obtnse, not 2 in. long. Sepals ovate, obtuse .... . 1. 5. ohovata. 



Leaves 2 to 4 in. long. Sepals lanceolate, acute .... . . 2. 5. longifolia. 



1. S. pbovata, Benth. in Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 301. A glabrous shrub, 

 with straggling half.,trailing branches. Leaves from obovate to narrow-ob- 

 long, always obtuse^ 1 to 3 in. long, narrowed into a petiole of 3 or 3 lines, 

 coriaceous, quite entire, smooth above, veined, and somewhat glaucous under- 

 neath. Flowers 6 to 1 together, in axillary racemes, so short as to be almost 

 reduced to clusters. Pedicels seldom 1 line long. Calyx-lobes very short 

 and obtuse. Petals .yellowish-white, about 1 line long. Stamens rather 

 longer. Fruit globular, 3 or 3 \me,sdidxasiet.^Chonpetalum obovatum, Benth. 

 in Lond. Joum. Bot. i. 490. C. Benthamianum, Hance in Walp. Ann. iii. 10. 



Common in ravines in the Happy Valley woods, and at West Point, Champion, Wilford; 

 also Hance and Wright. Not known from elsewhere. 



3. S. longifolia, Benth. n. sp. Allied to the last species, but the leaves 

 much longer, although not broader, usually about 3 in., sometimes 4 in. long, 

 obtusely aciuninate and narrowed into a petiole of 3 or 4 lines. Eacemes 

 much looser, about \ in. long. Pedicels 1 to If lines long. Flowers larger, 

 and the. sepals lanceolate, very acute, full \ line long. 



Hongkong, Harland and Hance. Not seen in any other collection. 



4. MYRSINE, Linn. 



Calyx 4- or 5-lobed. Corolla deeply 4- or 5-lobed. Stamens as many, 

 with very short filaments ; the anthers much longer, erect and lanceolate. 

 Ovaiy free. Style short, with a capitate or fringed stigma. — Shrubs or small 

 trees. Leaves coriaceous, entire or rarely toothed. Flowers small, on short 

 pedicels, in dense axiUaiy clusters. 



A considerable genns, spread over the tropical and subtropical regions both of the New 

 and the Old World. 



1. M. capitellata. Wall. ; DC. Prod. viii. 94 ; Wight, Ic. 1 1211. A 

 glabrous shrub or small tree. Leaves vai-ying from broadly elliptical or oblong 

 or almost obovate, to narrow-oblong, or almost lanceolate in the Hongkong 

 speciinens, usually, 3 to 4 in. long, and f to 1 in. broad, obtuse or obtusely 

 acuminate, narrowed into a short stout petiole, coriaceous, quite entire, the 

 lateral veins usually inconspicuous. Flowers small, white. Pedicels 1 or 



