76 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsnh. 



11. Memecylon heteropleurum, Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bc^t. I, 

 362. A tree, 80 and 40 feet high ; young branches rather slender, terete, 

 the bark pale-brown or cinereous when dry. Leaves thinly coriaceous, 

 broadly oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, shortly and rather bluntly 

 acuminate, the base rounded or narrowed, not cordate, shortly petiolate, 

 pale-biown with sometimes a touch of green on both surfaces when 

 drj ; main nerves 18-20 pairs, straight, interaching close to the margin, 

 thin but very distinct on the lower surface when dry ; length 5-7 in, 

 rarely 10 in. ; breadth 2-3"5 in. ; petiole only '1 in. Flowers pointed in 

 bud, in dense cymes from the axils of the leaves or fi'ora those of the 

 old leaves ; the peduncle '25 in. long ; pedicels shorter, bi-bracteolate. 

 CahjX'tnhe widely cupular, narrowed to the base, truncate, 'I-'IS in. in 

 diam. when dry. Fruit globular, '5 in. in diam. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat, I, 

 pt. I, 579; C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 557 ; Cogn, in 

 DC. Men. Phan. VII, 1140. 



Malacca; Griffith 2337 (Kew Distrib.) ; Maingay (K.D.) 816. 

 Penang ; Curtis 814. Singapore and Sepangore ; Ridley, Perak ; King's 

 Collector^ Wi'ay, Scortechini : many Nos. ; con^mon, Distrib. Sumatrt^ 

 and Borneo. 



Var. olivacea, King. Leaves rounded at the base, large, XO-14 in. 

 long and 3'5-4"25 in, broad, with a strong olivaceous tint when dry : 

 fruit not seen. 



Perak ; King's Collector 500, 2778, 10872; Wo-ay 1310. 



This variety differs (as far as it is represented by dried specimens) from typical 

 M. heteropleurum, Bl., only in the size of its leaves and their colour when dried ; 

 frq.it of it is unknown, the flowers and shape of leaves are exactly those of the type. 



12. Memecylon costatdm, Miq. in Yerh. Ned. Inst. 1850, p. 29. 

 A tree, 80-60 feet high ; young branches terete, but with 4 short wings 

 below the nodes. Leaves thinly coriaceous (drying pale-brown with 

 a tinge of yellowish-green), oblong- or oblong-lanceolate, sometimes 

 oblong-ovate, shortly acuminate, the base rounded or slightly narrowed, 

 not cordate, penni-nerved ; the main nerves 12-14 pairs, stout, curved, 

 anastomosing at '25 in, from the margin with a bold lateral nerve ; 

 length 4*5-7 '5 in. ; breadth I -75-3 in. ; petiole very short, stout. 

 Floivers crowded in axillary glomeruli, 1 in. or less in diameter; their 

 pedicels short ('l-'OS in.), the bracteoles minute, triangular. Calyx 

 cup-shaped, truncate, slightly narrowed at the base. Petals '2 in. 

 in diam. Fomit globose, '35 in. in diam. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 

 573 ; Triana in Linn. Trans. XXVIII, 157 ; Blume, Mus. Bot. I, 360 ; 

 C. B. Clarke in Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 558; Co^. in DC. Mon. 

 Phan. VIII, 1136. M. grande, Bl. Bijdr. 1095 (not of Retz.). 



Perak ; King's Collector 10785. Distrib. ; Java, Sumatra {Forbes 

 3412), 



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