Emhelia^ 



53. MYIISINE^. 



203 



or globose ; style cylindric. Fruit Bmallj c^lobose, 1-2-seeded; albumen 

 pitied ; embryo curved, transverse. 



Inflorescence in terminal panicles. Lateral leaf nerves 



indistinct • 1. Riles. 



Inflorescence in axillary racemes. Lateral leaf nerves 



distinct and prominent ... .. ... ... 2. E, rohusta, 



1, E. Ribes, Burra. Fl. Ind. 62. t. 23; Fl. Br. I. y. 513; Dalz. & 

 Oibs. Bomb. Fl. 137 ; Brandis For. Fl. 284. Tl. glanduUfera, Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 137. Waiwarung, karkannie, Vern, ; Varading, Guz. 



Tbroughout India from the Central Himalaya to Ceylon, alt. — 5000 ft. 

 Throughout the Konkan and North Kanara. It is rare in the latter 

 district, but fairly common in the evergreen forests near th.e Gairsoppah 

 ghaft. FL C. S. Fr. May. 



Seeds used in native medicine as an anthelmintic, also to adulterate 

 black pepper. A large scandent shrub. 



2. E. robusta, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 587; FL Br. I. 8. 5l5 ; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. 137; Brandis For. Fl. 284 ; E, Basaal, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 136* 



Kokla, carhati, ambati, waiwarung^ M. ; Byebering, Vern. ; Waijuwalingi 

 bcklU, Kon. ; Vaivaling amti, jolad hawia, K. 



Throughout India from the Himalayas to Ceylon and Tenasserim. 

 Tbroughout the presidency, common in the moist forests of the Konkan 

 and North Kanara. Fr. FL Apl.-June. 



A large climbing, scandent or erect sbrub. Stems as much as 1 ft. in 

 diameter at the base, usually much branched. Bark grey, smooth with 

 irregular cup-like depressions from fallen scales ; inner bark thick, dark 

 purple, fibrous^ lighter coloured in the smaller stems. Wood soft reddish> 

 Medullary rays very broad, dotted brown, extending into bark. Pores 

 moderate sized, crowded in the spring wood, ar- small and few in the 

 rest of the annual ring. Weighs 45 lbs. to the cub. ft. Fruit small, red, 

 sweet, edible. Bark and fruits used in native medicine. 



4. ARDISIA, Swartz. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves coriaceous. Flowers small^ hre- 



maphrodite^ in compound or simple umbels or racemes ; bracts small, 



deciduous. Calyx 4-54obed, sometimes enlarged in fruit. Corolla 



red;, white or spotted, deeply 4-5-lobed. Stamens 4-5 ; filaments 



very short, anthers free. Ovary free^ globose ; style cylindrie, stigma 



puncfciform; ovules few. Fruit globose. Seed solitary, albumen pitted 



or ruminated. 



Leaves large, opaqae, entire. Flowers *75 in. across, 

 usually in umbelliferous racemes, often compound. 



Corolla spotted, pink. Fruit black ... ... 1, B. huimilis. 



Leaves smaller, glandular-dotted, margin crenate. " ... - '■■ 



Flowers small, white, '5 inch across, in simple 

 umbels. 



Fruit red 2. A, j^arvijlora. 



