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short ; stigma capitate. Berry globose, blue when ripe, wrinkled when 
dry, -06 in. in diam., crowned with the persistent style, gland-dotted. 
Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. II. 1012 ; Scheff. Myrs. 34 ; Mez Monog. Myrs. 310. 
Ardisia pergamacea, Bl. fide A. DO. 
Perak : Curtis 2029 ; Wray 2001 ; King’s Collector 3658, 4678, 
6412. — Distrib. Java ; Borneo. 
This species closely resembles E. coriaeea, but differs in the acuminate leaves, very 
shining above and prominently nerved ; in the papillose ealyx-lobes, petals dotted only 
in the upper part and braeteoles as long as the pedicels. 
7. Embelia coriacea, Wall. Cat. 2314 (1829). A climbing shrub; 
branches reaching 1-5 in. in diam. ; branehlets reddish, twisted, somewhat 
angular, roughly lenticellate. Leaves entire, coriaceous ; oblong or 
oblong-lanceolate, obtusely acute at apex, rounded or almost cordate or 
auricled at base ; glabrous, more or less shining above, brownish beneath, 
glandular dots scattered, not prominent, margin sometimes incurved ; 
3 to 10 in. long, 1-5 to 4 in. broad ; midrib thick, impressed above ; 
main-nerves many, slender, not prominent, irregularly parallel, at about 
two-thirds of a right angle with the midrib, joining in an intramarginal 
faint nerve ; secondary nerves many, slender, reticulations faint ; petiole 
thick, -3 to -7 in. long, channelled when dry by the crispate edges of the 
decurrent blade. Inflorescence a large terminal 4-pinnate spreading 
leafy rusty-pubescent panicle with racemose branehlets and very 
numerous flowers ; main rachis thick, somewhat flattened, branches 
nearly at right angles to rachis as again are the branehlets ; bracts 
leafy, decreasing upwards ; braeteoles minute, subulate, about half the 
length of the pedicels ; pedicels '05 in. long ; buds very small, globose, 
flowers grey. Calyx-lobes 5, minute, triangular, glabrous, dotted with 
very few (3 to 5 per lobe) brown or black glands ; tube as long as lobes. 
Corolla-lobes free, 4-5, ovate, blunt, recurved, glabrous without, slightly 
papillose within, gland-dotted all over. Sta?nens shorter than the 
corolla-lobes, inserted on them about half-way up ; anther-cells oblong, 
somewhat divaricate, with about 4 black warts behind at the insertion 
of the short filaments. Ovary ovoid, style very short, stigma capitellate. 
Berry globose, smooth, - 075 to - 1 in. in diam., pale, prominently 
gland-dotted, wrinkled when dry, crowned with the persistent base of 
the style. A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 135, Prod. VIII. 87 ; 
Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. III. 513 ; Mez Monog. Myrs. 313. E. 
oblongata, Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 573 ; Scheff. Myrs. 34. E. macro- 
phylla, Bl. ; Scheff. Myrs. 36. 
Penang : Wallich 2314 ; Curtis 1047. Perak : Curtis 1307 ; Derry 
11712; Wray 2001,2579,3238; Scortechini 117, 255; King’s Collec- 
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