HhreUa.'] c. boeagine^. (C. B. Clarke.) 141 



11. EKBETIA, Idnn. 



Shrubs or trees, scabrous or glabrous. Leaves alternate. Corymbs or 

 panicles axillary or terminal, rarely peduncles axillary 1-flowered; flowers 

 small, white. Ccdyx 8ub-5-partite. Corolla-tube short or cylindric ; lobes 5, 

 imbricated in the bud, patent or reflexed. Stamens 5, on the corollar-tube ; 

 anthers ovate or oblong, exsert, rarely included. Ovary 2-celled, cells 2- 

 ovulate; style terminal, cylindric bifid or bipartite, stigmas small capitate. 

 Drupe small, subglobose, 4r- (or by suppression 3-1-) seeded ; pyrene one 4- 

 celled, or two 2-celled, or four 1-celled ; 3-1 pyrenes or cells not rarely sup- 

 pressed. Seeds straight, testa thin, albumen scanty. — Species 60, all tropical ; 

 principally in the Old World. 



Sect. 1. Eaebretla. Style single, bifid. 



* Leaves serrate. 



1. E. acuminata, Br. Frodr. 497 ; leaves elliptic-oblong acuminate 

 serrate glabrous beneath, panicles terminal dense compound, calyx-lobes gg in. 

 obtuse. DC. Prodr. ix. S03; •Benth. Fl. Austral, iv. 387. E. serrata, Roxb. 

 Hort. Beng. 17, and in Fl. Ind. ed. Carey §■ Wall. ii. 340 ; Wall. Cat. 898 ; 

 Bot. Reg. t. 1097 ; Wight lU. t. 170 ; DC. Prodr. ix. 503 ; Griff. Ic. PI. As. t. 

 459 ; Brand. For. Fl. 339 ; Kurz. For. Fl. ii. 210. E. pyrifolia, Don Prodr. 

 102. E. ovalifolia, Sassk. Cat. Hort. Bog. 137, not of Wight. Oordia thyrsi- 

 fiora, Sieb. ^ Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fartt. Nat. ii. 26. 



SuBTEOPicAL HmALATA and adjacent plains, ascending to 5000 ft., from Ghurwal 

 to Bhotan, common. Khasia Mts. to Pbqtj. — Distkib. Ava, Australia, Japan. 



A tree, attaining 40 feet. Leaves 3-4 in., minutely bristly or glabrous above ; 

 petiole ^ in. Panicles 2-6 in., minutely bristly or glabresoent, crowded with flowers. 

 Corollortube very short ; lobes |- in., reflexed. Anthers exsert. Style bifid for less than 

 half its length, branches linear, stigmas minutely capitate. Brwpe ^-^ in. diam., 

 short-eUipsoid, obtuse, not ribbed nor lobed ; pyrenes 2, without any hollow between 

 them, each 2-celled, cells 1-seeded. 



2. E. macrophylla, Wall. Cat. 901, and in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey ^ 

 Wall. ii. 343 ; leaves large broadly elliptic acute serrate bristly above softly 

 hairy beneath, panicle terminal compound bristly, calyx-lobes (in young fruit) 

 ^ in. oblong-lanceolate. DC. Prodr. ix. 503. 



Nepal ; Chundaghiri, Wallich. 



A tree. Leaves 7^ by 4 in., rhomboid or rounded at the base ; petiole 1 in. 

 Fcmicle 2-3 in., sparsely folvous hirsute. Young drupe f in. (but Wallich notes the 

 drupe size of a smaU gooseberry) ; pyrenes 2, each 2-celled. — Flowers unknown to 

 Wallich. E. Dicksoni, Hance in Ann. So. Nat. 4, xviii. 224, from the interior of S. 

 China, is probably the same species (the leaves in Hance's examples are broadly 

 elliptic subcordate, not oblong as in the description) ; calyx softly hairy, tube ^ in., 

 lobes J in. oblong ; corolla-tube J in., pubescent without, lobes | in. ovate reflexed ; 

 anthers long exsert ; style single long sparsely hairy, lobes 2 short oblong glabrous ; 

 berry as of C. macrophyUa, f in. diam. 



** Leaves quite entire. 



3. E. Isevis, Roxb. Cor. PI. 42, t. 65, and Fl. Ind. ed. Carey ^ Wall. ii. 

 341 ; leaves ovate shortly acuminate undulate base unequally cuneate glabrous, 

 nerves 6-6 pair irregular tufted in the axils, corymbs mostly subaxillary 

 repeatedly dichotomous branches recurved in fruit, calyx-lobes small pubescent, 

 style shortly 2-branched. Dm Prodr. 102; Watt. Cat. 899; DC. Prodr. ix. 



