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13 . EMBLICA, Gaertn. 
Trees. Leaves narrow linear close set. Flowers densely 
fascicled along the branches. Male flowers; sepals 5 to 6. Disco. 
Filaments united in a column, connective produced. Female 
flowers, styles 3, united below twice bifid. Fruit fleshy indehis- 
cent large, cocci bony, 3. Species 11, Indo-Malaya, South America. 
(1) E. pectinata Ridl. Pliyllanthus pectinatus Hook. fil. 
F.B.L v. 290. 
Tree about 40 to 50 ft. tall, bark red-flaky; branchlets scurfy 
red-tomentose slender. Leaves distichous close-set linear-oblong 
blunt coriaceous glaucous beneath, edges recurved, nerves very 
inconspicuous, *2 in. long, *08 in. wide. Flowers very small in 
small tufts; pedicels slender, -i in. long. Sepals 6, oblong-ovate, 
with a gland at the base of each. Anthers 3 in a ring on the top 
of a column. Ovary sub-globose with 6 recurved stigmatic arms. 
Fruit 1 in. long, globose green fleshy smooth, acid, with 3 bony 
2-valved cocci but indehiscent. Hab. Edges of woods, common in 
the south; Singapore, Bukit Timah; Bukit Mandai; Sumbawang. 
Johor, Bukit Soga. Malacca (Griffith); Tanjong Kling (Cantley); 
Sungei Hudang (Derry); Selandor (Cantley); Perak, Tapah 
(Wray); Batang Padang district (Kunstler). Native name: 
Malaka. Use : Fruits eaten cooked. 
14 . BREYNIA, Forst. 
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves small alternate. Flowers minute 
solitary or axillary in clusters. Male flowers; calyx turbinate or 
hemispheric truncate rim often thickened and lobulate, opposite 
the minute inflected round lobes. Stamens 3; filaments united 
in a column; anthers adnate to column. No pistillode. Female 
flowers; calyx hemispheric turbinate or rotate, lobes short broad, 
in fruit often enlarged and saucer-shaped. Ovary globose, trun¬ 
cate or depressed at tip, fleshy 3-celled; ovules 2 in a cell. Styles 3, 
united in a short column or sessile 2-lobed or stigmas immersed 
in a depression. Fruit succulent, red, globose or depressed at 
tip indehiscent with 3 to 6 trigonous cocci. Species 12, Africa, 
Asia, Polynesia. 
Small tree hairy . . . . . . . (1) B. discigera 
Trees or shrubs glabrous; leaves glaucous beneath. 
Calyx of female greatly enlarged in fruit. 
Leaves oblong blunt, -75 in. long . . . (2) B. angustifolia 
Leaves ovate, 2-25 in. long . . . . (3) B. coronata 
Calyx hardly enlarged in fruit; flowers solitary. 
Leaves cuneate at base; female calyx hemi¬ 
spheric .(4) B. rhamnoides 
Leaves rounded at base ; female calyx turbinate (5) B. reclinata 
Flowers cymose, 3 together . . . . (6) B. Keithii 
(1) B. discigera Mull. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. (2), 440; Hook, 
fil. F.B.L v. 331. 
A small tree 15 ft. tall or shrub shortly roughly hairy all over. 
Leaves chartaceous elliptic-ovate sub-acute sparsely hairy above, 
