tion. PAHANG: Ridley 1669A. SELANGOR: Ridley 8208. MALACCA: Griffith (K.D.) 3543; Ridley 10076, on Mount Ophir.

3. MYRSINE PERAKENSIS, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree; branchlets thick, smooth, wrinkled when dry, terminal leaf-buds lanceolate. Leaves entire, coriaceous; oblong, bluntly acute at apex, narrowed at the base, glabrous, shining above, margins recurved, glandular dots many, inconspicuous; 4 to 5 in. long, 15 to 2 in. broad; midrib thick, very prominent; main-nerves 20 to 26 pairs, prominent above, at about twothirds of a right angle with the midrib, parallel at first, arching afterwards to meet near the margin; secondary nerves similar but more slender, reticulations prominent; petiole 3 in. long, very thick, winged by the decurrent margins of the blade. Flowers in compact sessile umbels on the summit of a thick, cone-like, bracteate, arrested branch about 1 in. long, in the axils of the leaves or below them on the current year's wood, so forming a thick cluster below the terminal leaves: umbels 5-8flowered, pedicels 15 to 2 in. long, thick and angular when dry; bracts ovate, scaly, sometimes ciliate. Calyx-lobes ovate acute, glandularciliate, about 05 in. long, ciliæ jointed. Corolla and Stamens unknown. Berry globose, sometimes conical at top, 1 to 15 in. in diam., pericarp pale brown when dry, striate with obscure oblong glands.

PERAK: Wray 3856; Scortechini, 766, at 5,000 feet elevation.

4. MYRSINE WRAYI, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree; branchlets stout, striate when dry. Leaves entire, coriaceous; elliptic-oblong, rounded at the apex, narrowly cuneate at base; 3 to 5 in. long, 1 to 1.75 in. broad, glabrous; midrib slender; main-nerves very obscure, about 12 pairs, meeting in an intramarginal nerve near the edge, reticulations many, somewhat raised beneath when dry; petiole 5 to 7 in. long, bordered above by the decurrent margins of the blade, wrinkled at the base. Flowers in peduncled axillary few-rayed umbels; bracteoles minute, triangular; peduncles 3 to 5 in. long; rays of umbel 3 to 4, pedicels about 35 in. long, clavately thickened above. Calyx-lobes triangular-ovate, glandular-ciliate, acute, 05 in. long. Corolla and Stamens unknown. Fruit round, 2 in. in diam., crowned by the persistent base of the style; pericarp rugosely striate.

PERAK: Wray 232, at 4,500 feet.

5. MYRSINE UMBELLULATA, A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 135. (1834). A small tree; branchlets thick, glabrous, reddish-brown Leaves entire, coriaceous; elliptic-obovate, obtuse and emarginate at apex, acute at the base; glabrous above, rusty beneath, black glandular dots frequent, margins often recurved; 2 to 3.5 in. long, 75 to 1.25 in. broad; midrib prominent, slender; main-nerves inconspicuous, slender, raised on upper surface, depressed on lower, reticulations obscure;

petiole 3 to 5 in. long, rugose, bordered above by the decurrent margins. of the blade. Flowers in axillary scattered umbels on thick cone-like bracteate arrested branches, about 15 in. long; pedicels very slender, 3 to 4 in. long, glabrous. Calyx-lobes ovate, acute, very shortly ciliolate, minute, recurved in fruit. Corolla and Stamens unknown. Berry globose, 3 in. in diam., smooth, pale when dry, crowned with the persistent style. A. DC. Prod. VIII. 95; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 1014. M. capitellata, var. avenis, Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 512 (in part). Embelia umbellulata, Wall. Cat. 2312. Rapanea umbellulata, Mez Monog. Myrs. 362.

SINGAPORE: Wallich 2312.-DISTRIB. Sumatra, Borneo.

3. EMBELIA, Burm.

Small trees or shrubs, usually climbing, often extensively. Leaves alternate, entire, dentate or serrulate, usually glandular, petiole often margined. Flowers in axillary or terminal racemes, simple or paniculate, white or pink, hermaphrodite or polygamo-dicecious. Calyx free, 4-5lobed, persistent, the lobes rounded or ovate. Corolla 4-5-lobed, the lobes imbricate or contorted, tube none or short. Stamens 4 to 5; filaments short or elongate, inserted on the corolla; anthers ovateoblong, obtuse or acute; staminodes none. Ovary ovoid, globose or conical; style short; stigma capitate; ovules few, inserted on a subglobose placenta. Fruit a small drupe, globose, 1-seeded, crowned by the persistent style. Seed ovoid, hollowed at the base, albumen pitted, embryo transverse, curved.-DISTRIB. About 60 species, in the tropical regions of the Old World.

Inflorescence terminal or terminal and axillary, paniculate :-

:

Petals free (Sect. I. EUEMBELIA) :

Leaves membranous or chartaceous :-

Main-nerves of leaves slender, not prominent :

Petals sparingly villous, anthers with a cluster of black
warts behind

..

Petals densely villous, anthers with only small glandular
warts behind :-
:-

Leaves elliptic, 1.5 to 2 in. broad, shortly acuminate..
Leaves oblong, 75 in. broad, long but obtusely acuminate
Main-nerves of leaves prominent :-

Branches slender, leaves lanceolate acuminate, flowers
densely villous

Branches stout, leaves suddenly acuminate, flowers
glabrous or slightly pubescent only

Leaves coriaceous :

Panicles long, leaves moderately thick :-

1. E. Ribes.

2. E. canescens.
3. E. dasythyrsa.

4. E. Scortechinii.

5. E. penangiana.

Leaves acute or cuneate at base, main-nerves conspicuous,
bracteoles as long as the pedicels

6. E. pergamacea.

Leaves rounded or cordate at base, main-nerves very pro-
minent, bracteoles shorter than the pedicels..
Panicles short, stout, leaves very thick

Petals joined at the base into a tube (Sect. II. GRENACHERIA) :Leaves rusty-villous beneath, bracts of the inflorescence short, inconspicuous

Leaves pubescent or nearly glabrous beneath, bracts of the inflorescence long, often leafy, conspicuous

Inflorescence axillary :—

..

Inflorescence paniculate, axillary, 1 to 2 in. long (Sect. III.
PATTARA)

Inflorescence much shorter than the leaves, on very short
racemose branchlets with many bracts (Sect. IV. MICREM-
BELIA) :-

Flowers tetramerous, leaves coriaceous
Flowers pentamerous, leaves chartaceous

7. E. coriacea.

8. E. angulosa.

9. E. Lampani.

. 10. E. amentacea.

11. E. Ridleyi.

..

12. E. Myrtillus.

..

13. E. parviflora.

SPECIES IMPERFECTLY KNOWN: 14. E. lucida. 15. E. macrocarpa.

1. EMBELIA RIBES, Burm. Fl. Ind. 62. t. 23 (1768). An evergreen climbing shrub; branches pale brown, with thick bark studded with conical protuberances; branchlets pale brown, smooth, lenticellate. Leaves entire, chartaceous; elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate at apex, cuneate at base; glabrous above, glabrous or minutely pubescent beneath, glandular dots scattered, sometimes obscure; margin generally recurved; 2 to 3 in. long, 1 to 1.5 in. broad; midrib slender, prominent below, generally impressed above; main-nerves obscure, irregular, slender, 12 to 14 pairs, parallel at first then curved upwards to join near the margin; secondary nerves many faint, reticulations very obscure; petiole 3 to 5 in. long, bordered by the crisped edges of the decurrent blade. Inflorescence a large terminal leafy 3-pinnate grey- or rusty-pubescent panicle of racemes, the branches at first turning upwards, afterwards nearly at right angles with the rachis; bracts leafy, smaller by degrees upwards; bracteoles subulate, shorter than the slender pedicels, '05 in. long; buds small, globose; flowers white. Calyxlobes very minute, about 025 in. long, triangular-acute, ciliate, with few glandular dots; tube as long as lobes. Corolla-lobes free, elliptic, rounded at top in, more acute in ♂, 05 in. long, ciliate, sparingly villouspubescent, apex incurved, with few prominent glandular dots. Stamens inserted on the corolla-lobes, about half-way up in ♂, lower down in ?, shorter than the lobes; anthers short, with parallel, with divaricate, cells, both with a long black mass of glandular warts behind at the insertion of the dorsifixed filaments. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style short, stigma capitate in ♂, peltate and larger in 9. Berry globose or sometimes pyriform, red or black, glabrous, succulent, wrinkled when dry, aromatic, 1 to 15 in. in. diam., crowned with the persistent style and

stigma. Retz. Obs. iv. 24; Lamk. Ill. t. 133; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 586; Wall. Cat. 2304 ; A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 129, Prod. VIII. 85 (part); Scheff. Myrs. 38; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 1011; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 137; Brandis For. Fl. 284; Kurz For. Fl. II. 101; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. II. 513; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 69; Cooke Bomb. Fl. II. 84; Mez Monog. Myrs. 303; Prain Beng. Pl. 643. E. Burmannii, Retz Obs. IV. 23. E. garciniæfolia, Wall. Cat. 2304c and E; Miq. 1.c. 1011; Scheff. Myrs. 40. E. sumatrana, Miq. 1.c. 1012. E. glandulifera, Wight Ic. 1207; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 137. Samara Ribes, 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 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. glandulífera from E. Ribes unless perhaps as a variety. It has usually a much shorter and fewer-flowered inflorescence.

2. EMBELIA CANESCENS, Jack; Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 292 (1824). A climbing shrub with slender, villous, subflexuose 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,

reticulations irregular; petiole 3 to 4 in. long, bordered above by the prominently crispate edges of the decurrent blade, rugose beneath. Inflorescence a slender terminal 3-pinnate leafy panicle of distant comparatively few-flowered racemes, 4 to 8 in. long; rachis and its branches densely rusty-villous; bracts leafy below, spathulate above, bracteoles subulate, deciduous, about half as long as the 05 to 1 in. long pedicels which are longer in fruit; buds very minute, globose. Calyx-lobes very small, triangular, pubescent; tube as long as lobes. Corolla-lobes oblong, free, blunt, 06 in. long, densely villous without, papillose within and glandular-dotted. Stamens shorter than the corolla-lobes, inserted near their base; anthers rounded, warted with inconspicuous glands behind at the insertion of the dorsifixed filaments. Ovary in flower rudimentary. Berry globose, somewhat conical above, rugose when dry, crowned with the remains of the persistent style, 2 in. in diam. Wall. Cat. 2311; A. DC. Prod. VIII. 85; Scheff. Myrs. 42; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 1012; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 514; Mez Monog. Myrs. 305.

PENANG Jack; Porter. PERAK: Ridley 7172 (part). MALACCA: Maingay (K.D.) 1004. SINGAPORE: Goodenough 2804; Hullett 115.

3. EMBELIA DASYTHYRSA, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 573 (1862). A slender climbing shrub; branches minutely pubescent, striate, with prominent raised lenticels; branchlets dark, slender, rusty-villous. Leaves entire, chartaceous; oblong or elliptic-oblong, bluntly acuminate at apex, rounded at base; glabrous above, glabrous except on the midrib beneath, glandular dots scattered, obscure; 1.5 to 2 in. long, about .75 in. broad; midrib prominent beneath, villous, impressed above, mainnerves 10 to 12 pairs, irregular, arching upwards to meet near the margin; secondary nerves few, slender, reticulations obscure; petiole 1 to 2 in. long, channelled above. Inflorescence a long, 3-pinnate, leafy panicle of long slender many-flowered racemes, rachises minutely pubescent; bracts leafy, bracteoles subulate, minute, much shorter than the 1 in. long very slender pedicels; buds globose shaggy, flowers grey. Calyx-lobes minute, about 03 in. long, triangular, ciliate; tube shorter than lobes. Corolla-lobes free, ovate-spathulate, about 06 in. long, blackgland-dotted, densely covered with short moniliform hairs. Stamens less than half the length of the corolla-lobes, inserted at the base; anthers reniform, with inconspicuous glandular warts on the back at the insertion of the dorsifixed filaments, which are almost shorter than the anthers. Ovary ovoid, style very short, stigma in small capitate, inpeltate, large. Berry red or black, 15 in. in diam., globose or slightly pyriform, wrinkled when dry, tipped by the persistent style and stigma. Scheff. Myrs. 42; Mez Monog. Myrs. 305.