260 OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Memecylon, 
MEMECYLON. 
Calyx four-toothed. Corols four-petalled. Nectary four 
glands, inserted just over the stamina, in the fissure of 
the calyx. es inferior, one-seeded. is: 
1. M. edule. R. Corom. pl. 1. N. 82. 
Shrubby. Leaves opposite, oval, smooth. Umbellets — 
the naked branches, and stems below the leaves. 
Comus sylvestris. Burm Zeyl. p. 76. t. 31. 
Teling: Alie. 
The leaves are an ingredient in the dyes of Coroman- 
del, I therefore suspect M. tinctorium of Willdenow 
may be the same plant, 
A very common, small tree, or large shrub ; it is tobe 
found in every jungle all over the coast. It flowers about — 
the beginning of the hot season. 
Trunk very irregular in shape and size, covered with | 
a dark coloured, scabrous bark. Branches numerous, 
nearly erect. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oval, — 
smooth, shining, firm, entire, with scarcely any veins, from — 
three to four inches long, and from two to three broad. — 
Umbellets many, compound, small, from scabrous eleya-— . 
tions, where the leaves stood, over the old woody 
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branches. Peduncles common, and partial, four-sided. _ : 
Pedicels round, coloured. - The generic character asim 
Richard’s edition of the Genera Plantarum. Seeds, seldom uae 
more than one comes to perfection, though in the ee waa 
the rudiments of many are to be seen. 
The ripe berries are eaten by the natives; they are 
astringent; the pulp is of a bluish black dabei ant a 
found in 1 considerable quantity. if 
2. M. amplexicaulis, R. 
Leaves opposite, half sdis-cada pink ovatecorate 
Flowers in sessile, axillary heads. eres 
