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• Ulthnate h'anchlets quadrangular (see also No, 21, 22, 24, 37, 40). 



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8, HI. 'Wig'htli, Thivaites Enum. 113; leaves 3-4 

 lanceolate base cordate, peduncle 0, pedicels clustered 

 the time of flowering subcampanulate. 



Western Peninsula; Canara; Bitclde. Ceylon, alt. 3000-4000 ft., Thwaites.. 



A tree 25 ft. ; ultimate branchlets stout, acutely quadrangular. Secondary nerves 

 conspicuous, marginal looped nerve obscure. Buds obtuse, calyx-limb 4-dentate. 

 Petals blue. Bemj ^\ in. diam., globose.— United by Triana with M, amplexicaide 

 No. 24, M'hich has round stems, much larger flowers, and the calyx-tube at the time 

 of flowering saucer-shaped. 



4 in. Rookeri, Thwaites Enum, 113 ; leaves 6-9 in. sessile oblong-lan- 



ceolate base cordate, peduncle 0, pedicels \ in. clustered, calyx-tube at the time 

 of flowering saucer-shaped. Triana in Trans, Linn, Soc. xxviii. 158. 



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Ceyxon ; alt. 1000 ft. ; Thwaites, ' [ 



An erect shrub 8-12 ft., sparingly branched ; ultimate branchlets stout, acutely 

 quadrangular. Leaves very conspicuously nerved, secondary nerves running ^^^^ ^ 

 conspicuous marginal nerve. Buds obtuse, but apiculate ; calyx-limb obscurely 4- 

 lobed. Petals blue. Berry \ in. diam., spherical, finally black-purple.— Th^vaites 

 has sent (under No. 2686*) examples marked " M. Rookeri, variety with exalate 

 branchlets, sessile flowers." These examples have perfectly round branchlets ana 

 seem in all respects identical with No, 25 3/. macrofhyllum^ Thwaites. v 



h. TX. Griffithianum, Naud. in Ann. Sc, Nat ser. 3. xviii. 274; leaves 

 &-7 by 1-1 J in. nearly sessile linear-lauceolate rounded or somewhat acute at 

 the base, peduncle 0, pedicels ^-| in. clustered. Triana in Tran^, Linn.J:>oc. 

 xxviii. 158, not o/Kurz, in For. FL i. 515. M. cteruleum, var. 3 Griffithianuui, 

 Kurz,For.FL i. 611. 



Mergui ; Griffith (No. 2323 Kew Distrib.). . ., , 



Ultimate branchlets 4-winged. Leaves somewhat opaque, secondary nerves TisiDi. 

 marginHl quite obscure; petiole 0-^ in. Flowers rather large, pale blue (Griflitnj, 



buds obtu 

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se. Calyx-tube at the time of flowering funnel-shaped, limb nearly OT^ 

 p depressed, conspicuously rayed.— Jf. Horsfieldii, Miquel, said by ^ 



pt. ii: 82, and i^^. i'V. 1. --^ 



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Kurz quotes for M. Griffithianum Heifer's No. 2331, from which it is 

 refers to No. 20 M. grande, Eetz, var. merguica. 



6. III. eleff ans, Kurz in Journ, As. Soc. 1872, pt. ii. 307, For. ri'J_ 

 614 ; leaves 3-4 in. elliptic obtuse narrowed at the base, petiole ^4 ^°-^ P 

 cles ^ in. 3 or 4 together carrying mostly simple umbels, pedicels | in. 



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A shrub; ultimate branchlets distinctly quadrangular. Leaves with the eecon ^^^j 

 nerves visible, marginal quite obscure. Pedmdes quadrangular. ^ T^A\.Qon 

 (Kurz). Calyx-tube somewhat large, at the time of flowering saucer-shaped ; ai 

 the apex of the ovary depressed, prominently rayed. , flcumi- 



Vab. dichotoTna ; leaves 3-4 in. subsessile ovate-elliptic acute or ^^^^ 0324 

 Date, cymes very short, peduncle 0-i in., pedicels |-i in. Malacca, Gr#^A(rHO. 

 Kew Distrib,); Mount Ophir. Maingay No. 818. 820. Branchlets somewnao^^^ 

 tened, repeatedly forked, ultimate quadrangular, at least under the nodes. -^^ -^5^ 



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