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medium Blume. Although the lateral nerves are indistinct and the reticu- 
lations are obsolete, I am of the opinion that its proper place is near 
M» grande Retz. 
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11. MEMECYLON Dl VERSIFOLIUM Presl Epim. (1851) 208; Triana in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. 28 (1871) 156; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 90; 
Cogn. in DC. Monog. Phan. 7 (1891) 1149. 
The type of this species was an unnumbered specimen from Cuming's 
Philippine collection, and authors subsequent to Presl have interpreted it 
from Presl's description, not from an examination of his type specimen. 
The description is inadequate, so that from it alone it is impossible prop- 
erly to interprete the species. Dr. A. Pascher of Prague has kindly supplied 
me with a leaf of the type specimen for examination. As this fragment 
cannot exactly be matched by any of our abundant Philippine material, but 
does closely resemble specimens of Memecylon caeruleum Jack, from the 
Malay Peninsula, it is suspected that the type of Memecylon diversifolium 
is really a part of Cuming's No. 2322 which was from Malacca and not from 
the Philippines. In the fragment examined the lateral nerves are not at all 
prominent, while the leaves are sessile and cordate, so that the species 
cannot be placed with the three Madagascar species in Cogniaux's arrang- 
ment, but falls naturally in the same group with M. caeruleum, under that 
authors scheme of classification. The fragment is to be compared directly 
with Cuming's specimen of M. lutescens Presl =M. manillanum Naud. = M. 
caeruleit7n Jack. 
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12. MEMECYLON AFFINE Merr. in Govt. Lab. PubL (Philip.) 35 (1906) 
52, Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) SuppL 108. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Whitford ^54, For. Bur. 1S36 Borden, 
Merrill 3190, Leiherg 6059, For, Bur. 17318 Curran, Williams 425: Prov- 
ince of Rizal, Loker 6U1, 6261: Province of Bulacan, Bur. Sci. 13030 
Ramos: Province of Zambales, Bur. Sci. 5075 Ramos. 
This species is very closely allied to Memecylon cumingii Naud. (M. 
preslianum Triana) from which it differs chiefly in its smaller, fewer- 
nerved leaves. In shape, texture, etc., the leaves are quite similar, the ulti- 
mate branchlets are terete, and the inflorescence is much as in M. cumingii, 
although more often terminal than lateral, while in M. cumingii the inflores- 
cence is mostly lateral, very rarely both lateral and terminal. 
Var. LANCI FOLIUM var. nov. 
A typo differt foliis lanceolatis, usque ad 9 cm longis, 1.5 ad 
2.5 cm latis. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Merrill 2184: Province of Rizal, Bur. Sci. 
2661 Ramos. 
13. MEMECYLON CUMINGII Naud. in Ann. Sci. Nat. Ill 18 (1852) 273 
(cummingii) ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1^ (1855) 573; Walp. Ann. 4 
(1857) 802. 
Memecylon umbellatum Presl Epim. (1851) 208, non Burm. f. 
Memecylon preslianum Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. 28 (1871) 157; 
F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 90; Vid. Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 
114; Cogn. in DC. Monog. Phan. 7 (1891) 1139. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Bur. Sci. 10753 Worcester: Province of 
Tayabas, Cuming 760 (cotype of M. cumingii and M. preslianum) : Prov- 
