460 LVII, MELASTOMACE2 (HOOKER). [ Medinilla. 
12. MEDINILLA, Gaud.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. 759. 
Calyx-tube ovoid campanulate or cylindric; limb entire or 4-5- 
toothed. Petals 4-5, usually acute, often fleshy. Stamens 8 or 10, 
equal or nearly so, anthers short or long, pore single, connective rarely 
produced, 2-lobed or spurred in front and usually behind also. Ovary 
more or less adherent, crown glabrous or puberulous; style short of 
long, stigma simple. Berry ovoid or globose, areolate at the top or 
crowned with the calyx-limb. Seeds minute, irregularly ovoid or 
angular; hilum basal, raphe often produced.—Erect or climbing shrubs 
of the tropics of the Old World, glabrous or pubescent, nodes often 
thickened. Leaves usually coriaceous or fleshy and quite entire. 
Flowers rarely large, in terminal or axillary cymes or panicles. 
A large and polymorphous Asiatic genus, of which the prevalent characters are give 
above. 
1. M. (Diplogenia) Mannii, Hook.f. A shrubby peri gla- 
brous epiphyte, 4 ft. high; branches terete, woody, bark brown, nodes 
much thickened. Leaves subsessile, 3-5 in. by $-14 in., coriaceous, 
narrowly ovate-lanceolate from a subcordate base, long acuminate, 
3-nerved. Flowers } in. diameter, in axillary 3—9-flowered, 3-choto- 
mous cymes in. long, peduncles and pedicels slender, bracts minute, 
obtuse. Calyx turbinate, 1-10th in., limb membranous, dilated, 
entire, with 4 fleshy tubercles below the mouth outside, and @ low 
thickened 4-angled cup or ring inside the mouth. Petals 4, yee 
obtuse. Stamens 8; anthers narrow oblong, connective not lengthene ’ 
with two suberect spurs in front at the base and one descending ba. 
behind. Style slender. Berry spherical, 4 in. diameter, green, 4-celle?. 
Seeds sub-pyramidal. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann! 
13. MEMECYLON, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 773. 
Calyx broadly campanulate hemispheric or cupular; limb dilated, 
truncate, 4-toothed or lobed. Petals 4, broadly ovate obovate or orbi- 
cular, Stamens 8, equal, filaments filiform; anthers thick, consist™g 
of a reniform, fleshy connective inserted by the convex (anterior) face, 
the lower end projecting behind like a thick blunt spur, the uppe? 
bearing 2 small anther-cells with longitudinal slits. Ovary why 
adherent, 1-celled, crown conic, flat or sunk, glabrous, often 8-ribbed, 
the ribs produced up the calyx-limb; style straight, slender, tiem 
simple; ovules 2-12, whorled round a central placenta. Berry oY 
or globose ; testa thin or thick, 1- rarely 2-seeded. Seed large ; oo 
ledons consolidated with the radicle or folded round it, crumpled ° 
not.—T'rees or shrubs usually perfectly glabrous. Leaves opposii’s 
3—5-nerved, when 3-nerved the two lateral are sometimes marg™ al 
evanescent, quite entire, usually coriaceous. Flowers often violet, Sm ; 
or minute in subcorymbose bracteate panicles or fascicles ; bracteole 
