504 LTir. melastomace;e. 



Keen, ex W. & A. Proclr. p. 319 : Wight, 111. t. 93 ; Grab. Cat. p. 71.— 

 Elowers : Jan.-Mar. Veen. An/an. 



Koxburgh (I. c.) and Dalzell & Gibson (7. c.) notice the occurrence of 

 2 seeds. I can t'ullj endorse this, as I have examined a large number 

 oF berries in the I'resb state at Mahablesliwar and frequently found them 

 2-seeded. 



Burmann named the plant 31. tonhellnftim in 1768, merely describing 

 the leaves as ovate and the flowers as umbellate, but quoting the descrip- 

 tion of the elder Burmann (Thes. Zeyl. p. 76, t. 31). Koxburgli's name 

 M. eduJe dates from 1795, and as the names are admittedly synonymous, 

 the older name should have the preference. 



Verj- common at Mahableshwar and Mntheran, where it is called the Ironwood Tree. 

 Konkan: Stocks I; Matheran, Cooke \ Deccan : Mahableshwar, Cooke'.; Khaudala, 

 Nenc\; Lanoli, Woodrow\ S.M. Country: Ramghat, /ftYrA/e, 292! Kanaka: Lnw\, 

 Mrs. Ward, 118!; moist evergreen forests of N. Kanara, Talhot. — Distrib. ladia 

 (E. & W. Peninsulas) ; Ceylon, Malaya. 



Vab. capiteUata, C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 564 

 (exclud. syn.) ; peduncles more elongated, sometimes 1 in. long. 

 Konkan : Stocks ! 



4. Memecylon Talbotianum, Brandis, in Tall. Trees., Bomb. ed. 2 

 (1902) {Appendix). A large shrub or small tree ; branchlets terete, 

 slightly quadrangular just below the nodes. Leaves 2-4 by 1-2 in., 

 thickly coriaceous, elliptic, shortly and obtusely acuminate, margins 

 slightly revolute, base acute ; main nerves obscure ; petioles \ in. long. 

 Flowers small, sessile, few, in compact clusters, on bracteate, nearly 

 sessile tubercles in the axils of present and former leaves ; buds pyriform. 

 Calyx ^ in. long ; tube campanulate ; limb 4-lobed ; teeth triangular. 

 Pf-tals J^ in. long, orbicular, blue. Berry globose, \ in. in diam., yellow. 

 — Flowers : Mar.- Apr. 



The colour of the berry serves to distinguish this plant readily from 

 M. umbellatum. 



Konkan : Stocks ! Deccan : hills near Mahableshwar, Cooke, Brandis. Kanaka : 

 Tinai (N. Kanara), Ritchie, 1738 ! ; Bunwasi (N. Kanara), Talbot, 3G58 !, 3568 ! 



5. Memecylon terminale, Dcdz. in Kew Journ. Bot. v, 3 (1851) 

 p. 121. A shridD 2-3 ft. high; branches dichotomous, very slender, 

 terete or somewhat 4-gonous, smooth. Leaves subsessile, l|-3 by |- 

 Ig in., ovate, ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, very acute or acuminate, 

 glabrous, obscurely penninerved, base cordate. Flowers in axillary and 

 terminal umbels ; peduncles |-lg in. long, 1-3 together from the same 

 point, very slender; pedicels .]-| in. long, filiform. Calyx ^ in. across 

 the mouth when fully expanded ; tube very short, campanulate ; limb 

 saucer-sliaped, truncate. Petals blue, -^j^ in. long, ovate, obtuse. Berry 

 globose, g in. in diam., the areole at the apex about i in. in diam. Fl. 

 B. I. V. 2, p. 558 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 93 ; Cogniaux^ in DC. Monogr. 

 Phan. V. 7, p. 1163; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 173; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 638. M. amabile,''BcM. Icon. PI. 

 Ind. Or. t. 163.— Flowers : Dec.-Feb. 



I think thnt M. amahile, Bedd., from S. Kanara, should be included 

 under the above. There is only one specimen of that plant in Herb. 

 Kew. 



Kanaka : evergreen forests of N. Kanara from Ainshi southwards, Talhot ; W. Ghats 

 southwards, Woodrow; Southern Ghats, Dalselll, Gihsonl 



