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13. MeMecylon amplexicaule, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 11, 260. A shrab, 

 8-12 feet high ; branches rather slender, terete between, bat 4-angled 

 and sometimes 4- winged below the nodes. Leaves (tinged with greenish- 

 yellow when dry) sessile or nearly so, often semi-amplexicaule, ovate- 

 oblong or ovate-lanceolate, subacute or shortly and bluntly acuminate^ 

 bioadest a little above the cordate base, penni-nei'ved; the main nerves 

 9-12 pair^, not prominent, iiiteraching inside the margin ; length 35-6 

 in.; breadth 1-2 5 in. Flowers '2 m. long, crowded in dense, axillary 

 glomeruli 1 in. or less in diameter ; their pedicels very short 

 (lengthened to '25 in. in fruit) and with minute bracteoles. Calyx 

 campanulate, truncate, much narrowed to the base. Petals sub-rotund, 

 •2 in. in diani. Fruit globose, '3 in. in diam. Wight Ic. 279. Naud. 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XVIII, 277 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 

 580; C. B. Clarke in Hook. til. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 559 (in part); Cogn. 

 in DC. Mon. Plian. VII, 1139 (in part). 3/. depressum, Benth, in Wall. 

 Gat. 4101 (in part); Triana in Linn. Trans. XXVIII, 158 (in pnrt). 

 M. cor datum, Wall. Cat. 4100 (in part). M. coe nil u in, Tiianii in Itiiin. 

 Trans. XXVIII, 158 (in part). 



In all the Provinces except the Andaman and Nicobar Islands ; 

 coiiiirion. 



The petals of this are white tinged with piuk. The plant described by Rox- 

 burgh under the name M. amplexicaule is a Malayan one, as he distiutly states. 

 The species from the South of India which has, itt most of the synonyms above 

 quoted, been treated as identical with this is, in my opinion, quite distinct. It 

 has stualler and proportionately broader leaves, and the flowers, which are smaller 

 and more numerous, are in fascicles from the axils of fallen leaves. This is allied 

 to M, costatum, and like it, this has the stems often 4-winged below the nodes ; 

 the leaves are also sessile or nearly so, but they differ from those of M. costatutn in 

 invariably being cordate at the base. 



14. Memecylon MiCROSTOMCM, Clarke in Hook. til. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 

 557. A tree, 40-70 feet high ; branches terete, rather slender, dark 

 gre^^ish- brown when dry. Leaves very coriaceous, sessile and almost 

 amplexicaul, oblong or narrowly elliptic, sub-acute or obtuse, the bnse 

 rounded and slightly cordate, very opaque, the nerves very indistinct ; 

 length 3'25-4*5 in. ; breadth 13-2 in. Floweis numerous, small, less 

 than '1 in long (excluding the exserted stamens), crowded in dense 

 axillary glomeruli, pedicels filiform. Calyx-tuhe infundibuliform,. 

 constricted in its lower third, the mouth wide truncate. Petals pale 

 yellowish-green. Fruit large ("6 in. in diam.), globular, the persistent 

 cal^x-limb small. Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 1147. 



Malacca ; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 821 ; Perak ; Wray 1137 ; Kings 

 Collector 10588. SiiNGAPORE ; Bidley 2033. Penang ; Curtis 766. 



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