80 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



The leaves of this, when dry, are olivaceous on the upper and pale-brown on 

 the lower surface. The species resembles M. amplexicaule but differs notably in 

 its large globular fruit. 



15. Memecylon coeruleum, Jack, in Mai. Misc. I, 26. A shrub, 

 5-1.5 feefc liigli ; branclilets orfcen 4-aiigled near the apices, otherwise, 

 terete, slender, the bark pale-brown when dry. Leaves sessile, coriaceous, 

 opaque, oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse or sub-acute, broadest a little 

 above the rounded, cordate base, the midrib distinct but the main 

 nerves faint and the reticulations obsolete ; length 2-5-4-75 in. ; breadth 

 l-2"5 in. Flowers rather numerous, in dense, axillary, condensed glome- 

 rulate cymes, the peduncle -25 in. long, the pedicels shorter than the 

 flowers, each with two broad, acute bracteoles. Calyx-tuhe short, widely 

 campanulate, narrowed to the base, the mouth wide truncate. Petals 

 conical in bud. Frait narrowly ellipsoid, '4 in. long and '25 in. in 

 diam. (including the deep, persistent calyx-limb). Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 I, pt. I, 580; Triana in Linn. Trans. XXVIII, 158 (excl. syn. 

 M. amplexicaule, Roxb.) ; Kurz, For. Flora B. Burma I, 511 ; 0. B. Clarke 

 in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 559; Cogn. in DO. Mon. Phan. VII, 1163. 

 M. grande, Smith in Rees' Cyc. XXIII (not of Retz). M. cordatum, 

 Wall. Cat. 4100 (partly) ; Griff. Not. lY, G73. M. manillanum^ Naud. 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat., Ser. 3, XVIII, 276 ; Miq. I.e. 576. M. lutescens, 

 Presl. Epim. Bot. 208 (not of Naud.). 



In all the provinces ; not uncommon. Distrib. Philippines. 



16. Memecylon campanulatum, Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 II 563. Young branches rather slender, terete, their bark pale-brown. 

 Leaves coriaceous, elliptic, sometimes with a short blunt apical point, 

 the base always much and abruptly narrowed, nerves invisible; length 

 3-4o in. ; breadth 1-25-2-2 in. ; petiole ■1--I5 in. Flowers on slender 

 pedicels, 1-15 in. long, bracteolate at the base and crowded in dense 

 fascicles in the axils of the leaves or of the fallen leaves, the buds of 

 tl'.e petals shortly conical. Cahjx-tuhe campanulate, blunt at the base 

 and somewhat contracted below the wide truncate limb. Fruit 

 unknown. Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 1162. 



Malacca; Griffith (Kew Distrib. 2325). 



lu its leaves this much resembles M. oleafolium, Bl., but the flowers of that 

 species are in lax, few-flowered, pedanculate umbels, whereas the flowers of this are 

 iu dense, epedunculate fascicles. 



17. Memecylon minutiflorum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl., 323. A 

 tree, 30-70 feet high ; young branches slender, with a broad, angularly 

 margined groove on each side ; the bark pale, smooth. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, drying jello wish-green beneath, narrowly elliptic, cordate- 

 acuminate, the base much narrowed ; main nerves very indistinct. 



