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leaves 2-2^ in. broad-elliptic acuminated at both ends apex lonw rostrate obtuse, 

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Leaves nearly concolorous, opaque. Peduncles sometimes terminal as well as 

 axillary. Bisc on the apex of the ovary distinctly rayed.— This can hardly he more 

 than a variety of M, Icevigatum; it differs by its decisively rostrate leaves and smaller 

 flowers. Memecylon Maingay No. 810 (from Malacca) slightly differs by having 

 the leaves much lighter coloured on the lower surface and shortly rostrate, the 

 peduncles shorter, and is still nearer M. Icevigatum. , {. 



Y LR. fiavescens \ leaves 2^-3 in. elliptic acuminate at both ends apex rostrate 

 obtuse secondary and marginal nerves distinct, petiole ^-^ in., inflorescence extending 

 l-% in., peduncles clustered about ^ in., cyme-branches repeatedly shortly dirided, 

 flowers very small. Malacca; Griffith No. 2325-2.— imvfs concolorous, greenish 

 ytJIow in the dried examples. Branches of the cyme minutely scabrous almost 

 puberulous. Calyx-tube at the time of flowering saucer-shaped, limb truncate. Disc 

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•V Ceylon ; Kokool Corle, at no great elevation ; Thwaites No. 2926, 287. _^ 

 £erry ^ in. diam., spherical, ex Thwaites.— Mr. Thwaites in a note on No. 29it) 

 doubts if it is really distinct from M. Icevigatum var. sylvaticum (No. 36 above). 



35. ]M[. rostratum, Thwaites Enum. Ill ; leaves 1^-2 in. elliptic a 

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A small tree. Petals white. Ben^u I in. diam., spherical, mouth scarcely j^ m- 

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36. M. rhinophyllum, Thwaites Enum. 110; leaves 2-3 in. subses- 

 sile elliptic acuminate apex obtuse base acute opaque nerves very obscure, 

 inflorescence extending less than | in. Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc, xxvui. 

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 Ijuds small, notacute Flowers pale blue. Berry \ in. diam., black-purple, spherical. 

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 tliree Ceylon species (41, 42,^43) seem very close together, but Mr. Thwaites, vno 



knows them alive, keeps them separate. 

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