Memecylon.] 



I. IX. MELASTOMACE^. 



815 



Jungle. Perak, Ulu Kerling ; Goping (Kunstler) ; Penang Hill 

 at 1000 ft. altitude. Dislrib. Banka, Sumatra. Native name : 

 Dulek or Dalek putih. 



(16) M. laxiflorum Wall. Cat. 4472. 



Large shrub. Leaves stiffly coriaceous ovate obtuse, base 

 round; nerves very faint about 8 pairs, very slender, 4 to 4*5 in. 

 long, 2 to 3 in. across ; petioles '4 to "5 in. long, stout. Cymes i to 

 4 below the leaves; peduncles "3 in. long, bearing an umbel of 

 C3^mules on short peduncles with longer, slender pedicels. Calyx 



Fig. 65. — Memecylon amplexicaule. 



campanulate, tube very small hemispheric, limb larger truncate. 

 Petals short, sub-acute, blue. Fruit globose with very small trace 

 of the limb, "25 in. through. Hah. Open country near sea, local. 

 Singapore (Wallich 4472). Johor, Minyak Buku and Pinerong 

 (Ridley). 



(17) M. amplexicaule Roxb. Ft. Ind. ii. 260. M. microstomum 

 Clarke, in Hook fil. F.B.I, ii. 557 ; King, I.e. 79. 



Small tree about 40 ft. tall. Leaves very coriaceous, sessile, 

 broadly elliptic blunt shortly cordate ; nerves very indistinct, 

 3*25 to 5 in. long, 1-3 to 2 in. wide. Flowers small, under -i in. 



