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stigma. Betz. Obs. iv. 24 ; Lamk. 111. t. 133 ; Eoxb. PI. Ind. i. 586 ; 
Wall. Cat. 2304 ; A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 129, Prod. VIII. 85 
(part) ; Scheff. Myrs. 38 ; Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. II. 1011 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. PL 137 ; Brandis Por. PI. 284 ; Kurz Por. FI. II. 101 ; Clarke in 
Hook. f. PL Br. Ind. II. 513 ; Trimen FI. Ceyl. III. 69; Cooke Bomb. FI. 
II. 84 ; Mez Monog. Myrs. 303 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 643. E. Burmannii, 
Eetz Obs. IV. 23. E. garcinicefolia, Wall. Cat. 2304c and e ; Miq. l.c. 
1011 ; Scheff. Myrs. 40. E. sumatrana, Miq. l.c. 1012. E. glanduli- 
fera, Wight Ic. 1207 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FI. 137. Samara Bibes, 
Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. 222. Ardisia tenuiflora, Bl. 
Bijdr. 687. 
Penang : Deschamps, Curtis. Perak : Wray 420 ; Scortechini ; 
King’s Collector 928, 1150, 6999 (abnormal state, most of the flowers 
converted into leafy bracts). Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 3550; Maingay 
(K.D.) 1002 ; Cuming 2320. Johore : Native Collector 3749. Singapore : 
Ridley 10643, 2803 (fruits converted into insect galls) ; Kurz 2965. — 
Distrib. India, Burma and Ceylon ; Malay Islands and eastwards to 
South China. 
Var. rugosa, King & Gamble. Branchlets dark brown, much 
wrinkled and with oblong lenticels. Leaves 4 to 5 in. long, 1'5 to 
2 in. broad, usually thicker than the type. Racemes less pubescent 
than in type, the flowers often collected near the ends of the ultimate 
branches of the inflorescence. Stamens of $ flowers exsert. Stigma 
of ? much larger than that of S flowers, peltate. Berry rugose, 
conically tipped ; pericarp thick, fleshy, with cavities. 
Perak : Wray 2278, 2576, 3069 ; King's Collector 2512, 3001, 4040. 
Singapore : Ridley 10384. 
We find no Malay specimens with the large glandular pits so well marked in 
South Indian specimens (Embelia glandulifera, Wight Ic. 1207). Wight’s figure is 
not well drawn in several respects, and especially as to the nervation of the leaves, so 
it is not very easy to make sure about it, but there seems no reason to separate 
E. glandulifera from E. Ribee unless perhaps as a variety. It has usually a much 
shorter and fewer-flowered inflorescence. 
2. Embelia canescens, Jack; Wall, in Eoxb. FI. Ind. ed. Carey & 
Wall. II. 292 (1824). A climbing shrub with slender, villous, sub- 
flexuose branches. Leaves entire, chartaceo-membranous ; elliptic, 
shortly acuminate at apex, rounded or sub-cordate at base, glabrous or 
slightly pubescent and shining above, canescent beneath ; glandular 
dots many, not prominent, in the areoles of the reticulations; 2 to 3'5 
in. long, 1-5 to 2 in. broad ; midrib prominent, impressed above, villous 
beneath ; main-nerves about 10 pairs, irregular, curving upwards to join 
at some distance from the margin ; secondary nerves many, slender, 
