Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. ^1 



elliptic, shortly and al)ruptly acuminate, the base much narrowed ; 

 yellowish green on the lower surface and olivaceous ou the upper whei^ 

 dry ; main nerves 7-10 pairs, quite distinct on the lower surface, less 

 so on the upper, curved and interarching '1 in. from the margin. Gymes 

 3-3 from the axils of leaves, often unequal, proliferously umbellate, 

 from l*5-2"5 in. long, always pedunculate, the peduncle and all its 

 branches 4(-angled, bracteolate at the divisions, sparsely and deciduously 

 rusty-pubescent. Floivers densely clustered at the apices of the 

 thickened secondary peduncles, pedicellate ; the pedicels with numerous 

 sharply acuminate bracteoles at their bases. Calyx-tuhe campanulate, 

 much narrowed at the base, the mouth rather more than '05 in. wide, 

 truncate but with 4 minute, acicniar teeth. Fruit globular, 'lb in. in 

 diam. (unripe). M. grande, Retz., var. puhescens, Clarke in Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. IT, 558; Cogn. in DO. Mon. Phan. VII, 1153. 



Malacca; Griffith (Kew Distrib.) 2336. Perak; King's Collector 

 6089, 10760. Singapore ; Ridley 10390. 



Ripe fruit of this is unknown. 



5. Memecylon dichotomom, C. B. Clarke in Herb. Kew. A 

 slender shrub, 6-8 feet high ; young branches slender, acutely 4-2^nglje4 

 (even 4- winged) below the slightly thickened nodes ; the bark pale- 

 brown. Leaves thinly coriaceous, almost sessile, lanceolate to ovate- 

 lanceolate, much acuminate, often caudate ; the base rounded or slightly 

 narrowed ; main nerves 6-8 pairs, curved, interarching rather far 

 from the margin, often indistinct ; length 25-4 in. ; breadth 1-2 in. ; 

 petiole very short (under '05 in.). Cymes 2-5-flowered, solitary, 

 axillary and terminal ; peduncles very short, 4-angled ; pedicels with 

 two ovate, acute bracteoles at their apices embracing the calyx. Calyx- 

 tube campanulate, tapering to the base (obconical) ; minutely glandular 

 outside when dry, the mouth with 4 broad, shallow lobes when young, 

 truncate and almost entire when old ; buds rather large, conical. 

 Fruit globular, crowned by the narrow calyx-limb, smooth when ripe, 

 about '5 in. in diam. M. elegans, var. dichotoma, C B. Clarke in 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 554; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 1138. 



Malacca; Griffith (Kew Distrib.j 2324; Maingay (K.D.) 818, 820. 

 Perak ; Wray 2989 ; King's Collector 3239, 5036, 52^7, 10783. Pahang ; 

 Ridley 2609. 



I restore for this species the MS. name originally given to it by Mr. C. B. 

 Clarke in the Kew Herbarium. Mr. Clarke subsequently reduced it, as a variety, to 

 If. elegans, Kurz, of which there were, at the time he made the reduction, no good 

 specimens. Now that there are excellent examples of M. elegans, it is clear thftt 

 M. diehotomum is not near that species. 



There are specimens in the Calcutta Heybariujn of what appear to be other species 

 allied to this. But the material of all is imperfect and I describe none of tjiega. 



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