Embelia.] 
LX XXVI. MYRSINE^. 
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beneath, 2 to 3 in. long, 75 to 1 in. wide; petioles '15 in. long, 
villous. Panicle of long slender villous racemes (sometimes only 
one raceme), each 6 in. long. Flowers numerous with much longer 
subulate bracts. Calyx-lobes 5, acute. Corolla shortly gamo- 
pefalous, lobes 5, ovate. Drupe globose, black, - i in. through. 
Hab. Not rare, hedges and woods. Singapore, Bukit Timah road; 
Cluny. Malacca, Bukit Bruang (Cantley), Selangor, Kwala 
Lumpur; Sungei Buluh; Semangkok. Perak, Larut (Kunstler). 
Dindings, Lumut. Distrib. Borneo. Native name : Akar Malukut. 
(13) E. rotundifolia Ridl . Journ. F.M.S. Mus. vi. 50. 
Shrub probably climbing, quite glabrous. Leaves very stiff 
coriaceous elliptic-ovate blunt or rounded, base round; midrib 
sunk above, raised beneath; nerves and reticulations fine, con¬ 
spicuous, densely black dotted on both sides, 175 in. long, 1*1 in. 
wide; petioles *25 in. long. Racemes fascicled or shortly panicled 
under ’5 in. long; peduncles covered with ovate bracts, -i in. 
long; pedicels *2 in. long. Sepals 4, connate at the base, ovate 
blunt, gland-dotted. Petals free elliptic pubescent, glandular at 
tip ‘i in. long. Stamens longer. Hab. Mountains at 5000 ft. 
altitude. Perak, Gunong Kerbau (Robinson). 
(14) E. myrtillus Kurz. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xl. (2), 67; King, 
l.c. 112. Myrsine myrtillus Hook. fit. Ic. PI. 825. 
Pubescent erect or climbing shrub. Leaves coriaceous bifarious 
elliptic to nearly orbicular with 3 terminal teeth; base round, 
■5 in. long, *25 in. wide; petioles - i in. long, villous. Flowers 
few in axillary umbels or short racemes, -25 in. long; pedicels 
•1 in. long. Calyx-lobes 4, ovate glandular pubescent. Petals 
4, oblong glandular pubescent, white. Berry globose *2 in. through 
