320 MEMECYLES. MEMECYLON. 
branches below the leaves, about the length of the petiole, each bearing an 
umbel of pedicellate flowers, the pedicels about as long as the peduncle: 
stamens and style about equal in length, short.— Wall.! L. n. 4102 ; Wight! 
cat. n. 1060. 
T 986. (4) M. grande (Retz :) arborescent, branches terete: leaves ovate, 
much acuminated (half a foot long) : peduncles axillary, alternate, 4—5-cleft, 
branches many-flowered.— Retz, obs. 4. p. 26 ; DC.? prod. 8. p. 6 ; Spr. syst. 
2. p. 235 ; Wall.? L. n. 4103. 
De Candolle describes the leaves with a short petiole, but of this Retz makes 
no mention ; we suspect that it may prove to be a broad-leaved state of the 
last species. Smith refers here Rheed. Mal. 2. t. 15, seeming to indicate that 
the plant which he had in view was the following, of which it is a pretty 
good figure. 
987. (5) M. amplexicaule (Roxb. :) somewhat arborescent, branches terete : 
leaves sessile, cordate at the base, from ovate to oblong and gradually acu- 
minated : peduncles wanting ; pedicels 1-flowered, arranged on a sessile axil- 
lary (or lateral on the older branches) tubercle or receptacle: petals orbicular, 
sessile: stamens scarcely longer than the petals, about half as long as the 
style: fruit somewhat globose, 1-3-celled, 1-3-seeded.—Rowb. fl. Ind. 2. 
p. 261; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1055; Wight! cat. n. 1061.—M. cordatum, 
Wall. L. n. 4100 (scarcely of Lamarck).—M. depressum, Benth.! in Wall. L. 
n. 4101.— Rheed. Mal. 2. t. 15. Travancore. Malabar. 
€ leaves vary much on the same specimen, being sometimes broadly 
cordate-ovate, sometimes narrow cordate-lanceolate : in length they vary from 
an inch and a half to more than half a foot. Lamarck’s M. cordatum, var. b, 
may perhaps be this species, but he mentions its having peduncles, and that 
the pedicels are arranged in verticils round them, forming corymbs. 
t 988. (6) M. pyriforme (Wight).—Wight in Wall. L. n. 4106. 
Dr Wight not having retained a similarly named specimen of this plant, 
and Mr Arnott having received none of it from Dr Wallich, we are unable to 
determine what it is: we, however, have reason to suspect it to consist of 
specimens with very immature fruit of M. ramiflorum, in which the ovary 
when a little advanced assumes a pyriform shape. 
+ 989. (7) M. sessile (Benth )—Wall. L. n. 4112 Neelgherri 
. . fo z gherries. 
Probably a mere state of M. ramiflorum, with the tubercle or receptacle 
sessile, without the intervention of a peduncle. 
ORDER LXII.—MELASTOMACEÆ. Juss. 
Calyx with 3-5 teeth or divisions, which are more or less deep, or 
are sometimes united and separate from the tube like alid. Petals 
equal to the segments of the calyx, perigynous, twisted in æstivation. 
Stamens either equal in number to the petals and alternate with them, 
or usually twice as many, the alternate ones of a different shape and 
perhaps never with fertile pollen: filaments in sstivation bent down- 
wards towards the bottom of the calyx : anthers long, 2-celled, burst- 
ing usually by one or two terminal pores, rarely longitudinally. Ova- 
rium with several cells, rarely completely combined with the tube of 
the calyx, very rarely entirely free from it, usually cohering with at 
more or less by means of 3-10 longitudinal nerves, thus forming " 
many cases as the anthers which they contain during sestivation : 
ovules indefinite: style 1 : stigma simple, entire, capitate or 
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