Embelia
(Ceylonese name of on of the species). ORD. Myrsineae. A genus of mostly stove climbing shrubs, or small trees. Flowers white or greenish-yellow, small, polygamous, mostly dioecious. Fruit small, globose, one (rarely two) seeded. Leaves entire or toothed; petioles often margined or glandular. Embelias thrive in a compost of peat and loam. Propagated by cuttings, made of half-ripened shoots, and placed in sandy soil, under a bell glass, in heat. There are about sixty species; but E. robusta is probably the only one in cultivation.
E. robusta (robust). l. obovate-oblong, elliptic, or obovate, shortly acuminate, undulate or obscurely serrulate, rusty-pubescent, or rarely glabrous beneath, reticulated. Branches glabrous?. h. 20ft. India. A large rambling shrub.