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^ ^ A shrub 2-3 ft. (Dalzell). Calyx-hibe at the time of flowering saucer-shaped, 



lirab truncate. Buds not large nor acute. Disc depressed, rays obscure. Berry 

 ^ in. wide, ovoid, subglobose (broader than long), areola ^ in. wide.' — This species 

 has the branehlets with 4 lines and sometimes almost quadrangular: it is probably 

 not distinct from M, amabile No. 7. 



23. M. caeruleuni, Jach in Mai. Misc. i. 26 (not of GuiU. ^ Perr,); 

 leaves 4-6 in. ovate or oblong acute not acuminate, berry | in. ellipsoid much 

 longer than broad areola prominent ^ in. broad. Miq. FL Ind, Bat. i. pt. i. 

 580; Triana in Trans. Linn, Soc, xxnii. 158; Kurz For. FL i. 511. M. cor- 

 datum, Wall Cat, 4:100, partly -, Griff. Notid. iv. 673. M. manillanum, Naud 

 xn Ann, Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xviii. 276 ; Miq. I c. 576. M. lutescens, Presl Epinu 

 Bot. 208, not of Naud. ' 



^ Southern Malay Peninsula with its islands, plentiful. — Distbib. Philip- 

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Shrub 10 or 12 ft. Leaves opaque, sessile, rounded at the base, secondary and 

 Diarginal nerves inconspicuous. Peduncles clustered, thick; inflorescence I-lJ in. 

 Calyx-tube at the time of flowering funnel-shaped ; buds obtuse. Flowers somewhat 

 large, intense blue. Di^c much depressed, rays obscure. — Widely cultivated in Ben- 

 g-'^i, ^Q., for the sake of its bright blue flowers. The branehlets are round as Jack 

 states and not quadrangular as Presl states : but there is no doubt as to Presl's 

 F^snt as he describes from Cumming's No. 2322 which is M. cmruleum. Of Kurz's 

 iw. c^ruleum, var. 2,floribtmdum, I know nothing. 



^^n, pulchrum, Kurz For. Fl. i. 510 (sp.); peduncles and pedicels more slender*, 

 ---Andamans, Kur^. Kurz's specimens have the inflorescence hardly more slender 

 than in M, C(sruleum. Kurz appears to have abandoned the distinction he founded 

 on the less ellipsoid berry. 



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24. Itt. amplexicaule, Itoxh. Fl. Lid. ii. 260 ; leaves 2-C in. elliptic or 

 oblong amplexicaul, peduncle 0, pedicels less than i in. slender clustered, 

 ^iry i in. globose or subovoid, areola ^ in. broad somewhat prominent. JFu/ht 

 ■g- 1. 279 ; JV. ^ A. Prodr. 320 ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xviii. 277 ; Miq. 

 ^I'-Ind. Bat. i. pt. 1. 580. M. depressum, Benth. in Wall Cat. 4101 ; Triana 

 *-JL , "*• ■^*"«- Soc. xxviii. 158. M. sessile, Wall. Cat. 4112. M. cordatum, 

 Wall. Cat. 4100 partly. ' ' 



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Leaves sometimes acuminated, secondary nerves prominent. Buds small, obtuse. 

 flowers pale yellowish-blue. Disc depressed, rays obscure. Berry not longer than 

 Dread — This (and not M. ccsruleum, as Triana says) is certainly Eoxburgh's M. 

 amplexicaide, for, besides other reasons, Roxburgh's figure, preserved at Kew, has 

 yellow flowers. 



}\*-R- 1. malabarica; leaves often not exceeding 2-3 in., sometimes distinctly 

 Pet'oled, never acuminate, secondary nerves obscure.— Nilghiris, Mts. of Kurg. &c., 

 plentiful. Not from Ceylon, for Thwaites, No. 2670 cited by Triana is M. Wightti, 



^^AK. 2. cordata, Wight mss. : branehlets distinctly quadrangular.— This seems 

 not remote from No. 7 amabile. 



25 m. macpophyllum, Thwaites Enum. Ill ; leaves G-12 in. oblong- 

 MOeeoIate, peduncles 0, pedicels short, berry J in. diam. spherical. Tnana m 

 //•an*. Zmn. ^oc. xxviii. 168. , ' 



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