416 LXYII. MYRSINACE.E [Myrsine 



variable tree Mez restricts hib Hapanea ( apiteUafa to tlie forms with sessile or nearly 

 sessile fi. and clasbes those with pedicellate £. (including some new species established 

 by him) as follows : Western Peninsula : i?. Wifjhfiana, striata and claplinoides^ Burma : 

 JR. luGicIa and Griffithiana. 



2. M. semiserrata, Wall. Outer Himalaya from the Beas eastwards 3-9,000 ft. 

 {Bains, Gau7ifa, Gaihw.). Ivhasi hills, Manipur. Hills east of Toungoo 6-7,200 it. 

 Upper Burma. Yunnan^ A shrub or small, sometimes a middle-sized tree, quite 

 glabrous, 1. thinly coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, entire or in the upper half with 

 sharp spinulose serraturei?, blade 3-5, petiole I in. long. Fl. white, with a slight pink 

 tinge, fr. led, l~^ in. diam. on i)edicels J in. long. 



3. M. afrlcana, Linn ; Collett Simla PI. 304, fig. 94. Afghanistan, Baluchistan. 

 Trans Indus. Salt range. Outer N. W. Himalaya from Nepal westwards 3-9,000 ft. 

 Azores, Mountains of East and vSouth Africa. Western Asia. Cbina. Vern. Kiikal^ 

 Haz. ; G-uyil, Kabhm.; C/ntri7i(/, Bash.; Banivan, Jauns. A small shrub, branches 

 hairy. L. ^-1 in. long, minuteh^ cuspidate-serrate, ii. dioicous in axillary clusters of 

 4-6, stigma large capitate, fimbriate. Beiries usually solitary, red or black, ^ in. 

 diam., often densely covered with cjrlindrical capitate protuberances (M. seahra, 

 Gaertner). 



3. EM B ELI A, Burm. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 512." 



Sbnibs or small trees, as a rule evergreen, most species climbing, 1. usually 

 entire. M. small, polygamous, often dioicons, in simple or compound, often 

 panicled racemes. Calyx free, persistent, petals free or slightly coherent at 

 base, filaments more or less adnate to petals, style cylindric, stigma capitellate, 

 ovules few. Calyx, petals, anthers and ovary usually with glandular dots. 

 Seed one, albumen more or less ruminate. Species 60-90, tropics of the Old 

 World. 



A. Petals imbricate in bud, fl. 5-merous. 



{a) Infloi'escence terminal. 



1. E. Ribes, Burm.— Syn. K glanclulifera^ Wight Ic. t. 1207. Vern. 

 Waiwarang, Mar. ; Silyilla^ Ass. 



A large climbing shrub, 1. glabrous, coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, acuminate, 



blade 3-4 in., narrowed into a more or less marginate or glandular petiole \ in. 



long ; sec. n. slender, numerous, glands sometimes along midrib. Fl. greenisb- 



yellow, more or less pubescent, on pedicels as long as fl., longer than bracts, 



in large terminal more or less pubescent panicles. Berry black, succulent, 



wrinkled when dry, -|- in. diam. 

 * 



Sikldm, foot of hills, ascending to 4,000 ft. Assam. Manipur 8-5,000 ft. Ohittagong. 

 Burma, Upper and Lower, 3,000 to 6,500 ft. Hills of the Western Peninsula, in ever- 

 green forest. Fl. Nov.-Febr. Ceylon, moist region to 4,000 ft. Malay Penins. and 

 Archip. Tonkin. China. 2. R sessiliflora,Klu.rz, Burma, Upper and Lower, rare. An 

 evergreen scandent shrub, L ovate, entire, glabrous. Fl. sessile, otherwise similar to 

 M, JRibes. 



8. E. adnata, Bedd. Palghat hills. A very large climber, branchlets stout, angular, 

 warty, young foliage red, 1. coriaceous, blade 4-6, pet. stout J in. long, terminal panicle 

 large, ramification stout. 4. E. microcalyx, Xurz. Nicobars. Scandent, branchlets 

 and underside of 1. and panicles brown villous, 1. elliptic, obtuse at both ends. 



(b) Inflorescence axillary. 



5. E. robusta, Boxb. ; Bedd. Manual t. six. ^g. 2.— Syn. E. Tsjeriam 

 Cottaniy A. DC ; Wigbt Ic. t. 1209. Vern. (?a^a, Dun ; Nummta, Uriya ; 

 Eikmioenta^j Burm. ; Baihrang^ Behrang^ BMngiy Hind. ; Waiwarang^ 

 Ambutij Mar. 



A large shrub or small tree witb long spreading and scrambling brandies, 

 branchlets, petioles and underside of 1. more or less rusty-pubescent, some- 

 times glabrous. L. membranous, entire or slightly denticulate, elliptic, blade 

 2-5, petiole slender, |-| in. long, sec. n. slender but conspicuous beneath. 

 Racemes 1-2 in. long, sometimes 2 or 3 from one leaf axil. Fr. red, nearly 

 dry, longitudinally ribbed, }-^ in. diam. 



