-F- -.'^-' - .-=-^V**' ^"^ *if" i"'""' ^ ^ V * -i^i*" 



P'^ 



y I 



. ■-,\x'.^ 





?^^ -V 



I- 



■ - - ,. r . ,,;. 



V .• ■ ■ - ■■■' '■ ■ i" ■ 



■;■ ■: , -■ >■■-..- ■ . ■■'■.■■ »■, ^ ■ ^ . . ^ •" »" , 



- ^ ^ t , 



560 LX. MELASTOMACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) [Memecylon. 



r 



are visible. - Petals pale Llue (Thwaites).— Neitlier Mr. Thwaites' examples nor bis 

 description show this species to differ from M. ampkxicaule except Ly the leaves 

 being larger (see No. 4. M. Hookeri). 



.J 



-1 



h r* 



26. Vln orbiculare, Tlmaites Unum. 112 ; leaves 1^ in. diam. orbicular 

 very thick and opaque, pedicels less than ^ in. clustered. Triana in Trans^ 

 Linn. Soc, xx\dii, 158. ^ 





Ceylon; alt. 1000 ft,, Hinidoon Corle ; Thwaites, 

 A small tree. Buds small, obtuse. Calyx-tube at the time of flowering saucer- 

 shaped. Petals blue. Disc obscurely rayed. ^ ' 



^*Ll 



^ '- 



27. XIK. revolutum 



coriaceous nerves impressed, peduncles clustered rather stout in fruit f m-; 

 berrv i in, diam. snherical mouth less than A in. wide. Triana in Trans, Linn. 



"berry \ in. diam. spherical mouth less than ^ 

 Soc, xxviii 



-^^ 



'k ^ 



Ceyxon; alt. 5000 ft., Eambodde ; Thwaites. * 



A small tree. Flowers small, white. Berry black-purple. Whole inflorescence 



--' - » - 



Thwaites' picture shows it 2 in. very dense and compound in flower, 



28. M. deccanense, C. J5. aarhe\ leaves 4-5 in. narrowly oblong- 

 lanceolate, peduncle 0, pedicels clustered less than \ in., flowers small. •>!• 

 Heyneanum, Wight Ic. t. 278 ?. M. ^V iglitianum, Tnana in Tram. Linn. Soc. 



158 {not M.-Wiglit 



,\ 



..-,; 



r-'^ 



^ ^" 



r 



Dbccan Pekinsula ; Wight. 



Branches with 4 lines, ultimate branches terete. Leaves rounded and almost 

 cordate at the base, opaque, thin, secondary nerves not prominent; petiole^ in. 

 Separated by Triana from M, Hey7i€amim from which it considerably differs, -^l 

 Wight Ic, t. 278 it exhibits exactly the leaves of the present species, but the in- 

 florescence appears rather to belong to the next. 



° ■■■■', -r:* 



tttt Beny less than i in. diam. Lijlorescence less than 2 in. Leave$ 



4—6 in,, lona-netioled . narraw~lnfn/*pn1nfa nntivnivinf^i ni ih^ hnsp. ' - • 



9. HI. Kejmeanum 



elongate nerves impress 



4r-7 in. lanceo- 



Triana 



petiole : 



ute. W, 



Mia. Fl. 



Wight 



.■-■*... 





Dkccan Peninsula; Courtallum &c. Wight. Ceylon; up to 3000 ft.i. 

 Thwaites, 







-rJ 



K \ 



■]. -.. -. ■::■" 



Calyx-tithe at the time of flowering broadly funnel-shaped, limb truncnte. 

 obscurely rayed. J3erri«.s less than \ in. diam., spherical, nearly sessile.— The typi 

 M. Heyneanvm Benth. is a well marked and easily recognised plant: but Y^®/^ 

 varieties of Mr. Thwaites could never have been referred to it in the ^^^^^^^ ijjj 

 Mr. yhwaitcs says the berry is as much as \ in. diam. in the Ceylon plants, but 



specinmi 

 Var. 1. 



u jvww uu uuL Buow iruit. f the 



latifolia ; leaves broader a fresh green colour narrowed almost ^ ,^^ 

 base so that there is scarcely any true petiole, nerves visible but slender and uaru ; 

 at all impressed,— Thwaites No. 2468. . , ni 



Vab. 2. angustifolia ; leaves linear-lanceolate when dry orange yellow thicfi 

 opaque.— Thwaites No. 1555. 







I \ 







■ -■\-' 



'■' /■.;.'■. ^ -v f - " . ...-■■■ -■ ■ ■■"■ 



- > 



-..■ - ■ \ ■ . - .•■ ■ ^1 .,■'"■ "-■- . -r . ^ .. ^^--•-.'.^■^.•^■^'^ - 



