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6. Memecylon Kunstleri, King, n. sp. A tree, 40-60 feet high ; 

 young branches slender, terete, very pale-grey. Leaves chartaceons, 

 drying brown (palest on the lower surface), elliptic-oblong, bluntly 

 acuminate, the base rounded and often minutely cordate ; main nerves 

 7 or 8 pairs, ascending, faint on the lower and almost invisible on the 

 upper surface when dry; length 2*75-4-5 in.; breadth 1-2 in.; 

 petiole 'OS--! in. Peduncles from the axils of fallen leaves or axillary, 

 bracteolate, 'SS-'G in. long, umbellately panicled, bracteolate at the 

 divisions, 4-angled like the pedicels ; ultimate umbels 4-6-flowered, 

 on the thickened ends of the secondary peduncles, pedicels bracteolate 

 ^t the base. Calyx-tube cup-shaped, shallow, the mouth obscurely 

 4-toothed. Young fruit ellipsoid, crowned by the thick, shallow, 

 obscurely 4-toothed limb of the calyx, S in. loug, and -15 in. in diam. 



Perak; King's Collector (Kunstler) 8J95, 10419. 



This is known only by Mr. Kunstler's two suites of specimens. One of these 

 sets bears no fruit ; the other no flowers. The leaves on the former are rather 

 smaller than those on the second but the venation is the same and I assume 

 that they belong to one species. The terete branchlets, associated as they are with 

 an inflorescence which is 4-angled in all its branches, even down to the pedicels and 

 the ellipsoid fruit, distinguish the plant. 



7. Memecylon caloneuron, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 321. A tree ; 

 branchlets and leaves as in M. costatum, Miq., but the latter with fewer 

 nerves. Flowers in axillary, pedunculate, many-branched cymes, 1-2 in. 

 long, the flowers in dense glomeruli on the thickened apices of the 

 ultimate branchlets ; all the peduncles boldly 4-angled or winged ; 

 fruit ellipsoid, "35 in. long (including the small persistent calyx-limb). 

 M. costatum^ Miq., var. elli^soidea^ Blume Mus. Bot. I, 361 ; Cogn. in 

 DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 1136. 



Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 813. Perak; Wray 3235; 

 King's Collector 6945, 8505. Distrib. Java; Sumatra, Forhes 2696; 

 Borneo. 



The inflorescence and fruit are so different from those of M. costatum, Miq., 

 that I have followed Miquel in treating this as a species. Miquel did not however, 

 recognise that his M. caloneuron really covers Blume's variety ellipsoidea of his 

 own species M. costatum, 



8. Memecylon Hullettii, King, n. sp. Young branches slightly 

 ridged near the nodes, otherwise terete, the bark pale-brown. Leaves 

 chartaceous, ovate-oblong, gradually narrowed to the acuminate apex ; 

 the base broad, abruptly rounded, slightly cordate ; main nerves about 

 15 pairs, thin but distinct on the lower surface, horizontal ; length 6-8 

 in. ; breadth 2'25-3 in. ; petiole under '1 in. Peduncle solitary, axillary, 

 l'5-2'5 in. long, slender, bearing at its apex a single or compound 



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