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Inflorescence twice as long as the petioles, many-flowered ; the peduncles 

 often two or three from the same axil, each bearing several 2-4-flowered 

 umbels ; pedicels stout, bracteolate at the base. Calyx-tube cup-shaped, 

 not tapered to the base, the mouth expanded, truncate and '05 in. wide, 

 glandular- hairy when young like the bluntly conical petal-bud and the 

 pedicels. Fruit crowned by the minute calyx-limb, depressed globular, 

 smooth, '35 in. in diam. and '3 in. deep. Cogn. in DO. Mon. Phan. VII, 

 1169. M. acuminatum^ Sm., VAR. flavescens, Clarke in Hook, fil, Fl. Br. 

 Ind. II, 562 ; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 1152. 



Malacca; Griffith (Kew Distrib.) 2325/2. Penang ; Curtis 815. 

 Perak ; King's Collector 5027, 6105, 6265, 8724. Distrib. Sumatra. 



Triana considers this a distinct species and I think he is right. Fruit 

 however is wanting to complete onr knowledge of the form. The Perak specimens 

 agree perfectly with the type sheet named M. minutifiorum, Miq., in Herb. Calcutta. 

 The species is not, as was suggested by Kurz, identical with M. Iilacinu7n, Zoll. and 

 Moritzi, 



18. Memecylon myrsinoides, Blume, Mug. Bot. I, 356. A tree, 

 30-40 feet high (rarely a shrub) ; young branches terete, slender, with 

 pale-grey bark. Leaves thinly coriaceous, drying brown (palest on 

 the lower surface), narrowly elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, the apex very 

 acuminate, much narrowed to the cuneate base ; main nerves invisible 

 on both surfaces; length 1-5-2-5 in.; breadth •9-l'25 in.; petiole 

 •15-'25 in. Floivers numerous, in very short-peduncled cymes, densely 

 clustered together in the same axil ; pedicels about the length of the 

 calyx, bracteolate at the base. Calyx-tube campanulate, much narrowed 

 to the base, the mouth less than "05 in. wide, with 4 long (for the 

 genus) acute teeth ; petals in bud forming a long narrow cone, acumi- 

 nate. Fruit globular, the size of a grain of black pepper. Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 577; Triana in Linn. Trans. XXVIII, 158 (excl. 

 syn.) ; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 1160; excl. syn. M. lilacinum. 

 M. capitellatum, Blume, Bijdr. 1091 (not of Linn.). 



Penang ; Curtis 2219. Johore ; Ridley 2026. Perak ; Wray 2258; 

 King's Collector 1851, 3517, 5923, 8828. Distrib.; Sumatra; Forbes 

 2953 ; Java ; Bangka. 



Var. Ulacina, King. Young branches with two deep, sharply, 

 margined grooves ; leaves broadly elliptic, yellowish on the under surface 

 when dry, cymes not crowded (only two in an axil). M. lilacinum^ Zoll. 

 & Mor. Syst. Verzeich., 9 ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat, Ser. 3, XVIII, 

 281 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 575. 



PenanCx; Kings Collector 1457; Curtis 100. Singapore; Ridley 

 6218. Perak; King's Collector J0442. Distrib.; Java, Zollinger 

 178. 



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