§4 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 



aud about ' 15 in. long. Calyx-tube shortly campanulate, or saucer- shaped, 

 Tvith a large, wide, sliarply and minutely 4-tootlied moutli. Fetals 

 acuminate. Stamens and style much exserted. Fruit depressed- 

 globular, smooth, crowned by the toothed calyx, "2 in. in diam. Miq. 

 ri. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 578 ; Kurz, For. Flora Burma T, 514 ; C. B. 

 Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Bi-. Ind. II, 555 ; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. 

 VII, 1169. M. capUellatum, Spanoghe in Linnaea, XV, 203 (not of 

 Linn.). M. umhellatum, Benth. Fl. Austral III, 293 (non Burm.). 

 M. australe, Muell. ex Triana in Linn. Trans. XXVIII, 159. 



Anda^ian Islands ; very common. Dlstrib. Burma (Heifer 2332) ; 

 Chittagong; Australia; Timor. 



The Peuang specimens have narrower, less rhomboid leaves than those from 

 the Andamans. 



23. Memecylon elegans, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, 

 pt. II, 307. A glabrous shrub ; young branches slender, boldly ^-angled, 

 sometimes winged, the bark pale. Leaves coriaceous, pale yellowish, the 

 upper surface tinged with green when dry, oblong to elliptic, much 

 acuminate, the base very cuneate ; main nerves invisible or very indis- 

 tinct ; length 3-5-5o in. ; breadth l'4-2 in. ; petiole '15--3. Flowers 

 •15 in. long, their pedicels longer, ('2 in.), slender, angled. Cymes 

 axillary, several together, pedunculate, simply or trichotomously 

 umbellulate ; peduncles •3-75 in. long, 4-angled. Calyx-tuhe somewhat 

 large for the genus, cup-shaped, narrowed to the base, 1 in. wide at the 

 undulate, obscurely 4-lobed mouth. Petals blue, broadly ovate, acumi- 

 nate. Fruit globular, smootli, '5 in. iu diam. Kurz, For. Flor. Burma I, 

 514 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. lud. II, 554 ; Cogn. in DC. Mon. 

 Phan. VII, 1138. 



Andaman Islands ; very common. 



Var. minor, King. Cymes usually solitary, tlie pedicel slender, 

 short; fruit only '2 in. in diam. (? ripe) ; leaves 2-3 in. long. 

 Andamans ; King's Collectors. 



Smaller than the typical form iu all its parts. The flower buds also differ 

 somewhat from those of the typical form. 



24. Memecylon acuminatum. Smith in Rees Cyclop. XXIII, 4. 

 A tree 30-50 feet high ; young branches slender, terete, the bark 

 brown, smooth. Leaves thinly coriaceous, drying pale olivaceous-brown, 

 the surfaces concolourous, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, 

 the base cuneate ; main nerves invisible ; length l*5-2-25 iu. ; breadth 

 •8-l"4 iu. ; petiole "I-'IS in. Cymes solitary or in pairs, axillary, 

 umbellate, on peduncles several times longer than tbe petioles. Flowers 

 6-8 in a compound umbel j pedicels bracteolate at the base, slender, 



