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twice as long as the flowers. Calyx-tube cup-shaped, the fundus broad, 

 slightly constricted below the thick, short, undulate, broadly 4-toothed 

 limb. Petals conical in bud. Fruit globular, somewhat depressed,' 

 smooth, crowned by the narrow calyx-limb, 25 in. in diam. Triana in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVIII, 158; DC. Prodr. Ill, 6; Clarke in Hook, 

 fil. FI. Br. Ind. II, 562 ; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 1152 (excl. 

 N kTi. flavescens) . 



Malacca ; Griffith (Kew Distrib.) 2325 ; Maingay 810 ; Berry 

 1041 ; Bidley 3297," 3298, 4574. Johore ; Ridley 4656. Perak ; King's 

 Collector 3458, 6754. 



25. Memecylon garcinioides, Blume, Mus. Bot. I, 358 (excl. var. B). 

 A tree, 20-40 feet high ; young branches terete, slender, pale-brown. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-ovate or elliptic, abruptly and rather 

 obtusely acuminate, the base cuneate, drying pale-brown tinged with 

 olive, the under surface the palest ; main nerves invisible ; length 3-5'5 

 in., breadth r2-2 in. ; petiole 'OS-'l in. Cymes axillary and in the axils 

 of old leaves, umbellate, many-flowered, on short peduncles ('2 in. long, 

 longer in fruit) ; pedicels slender, bracteolate at the base, •1-'15 in. 

 long. Flower-buds acute. Calyx-tube small and cup-shaped, the 

 mouth very wide (nearly '1 in.), truncate, but with four minute, acute 

 teeth. Fruit globular, smooth, pale when dry, '2 in. in diam. Coo-n. 

 in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 1J52. 



Malacca; Derry 1240. Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 817. Perak ; 

 Scortechini 20S3 ; Wray 2961, 3203; King's Collector \98i, 2938, 7123, 

 10034; Singapore; Ridley 8118. Selangore ; Ridley 7333. Distrib. 

 Sumatra, Blume, Forbes 2970, 3103; Borneo, Beccari 536. 



26. Memecylon andamanicdm, King, n. sp. A shrub; young 

 branches slender with faint grooves below the nodes, the bark pale- 

 brown. Leaves chartaceous, brown on the upper and greenish-yellow on 

 the lower surface when dry, oblong-lanceolate, gradually and bluntly 

 acuminate, the base cuneate; main nerves 10-12 pairs, interarching 

 near the edge, sub-horizontal ; length 225-3 in. ; breadth 75-1 in. ; 

 petiole •25-*3 in. Peduncles unequal, '2-4 in. long, in pairs in the axils 

 of leaves or of fallen leaves, bearing at their apices several 3-5-flowered 

 umbels, bracteolate at the divisions, flower-pedicels as long as the 

 calyx, minutely bracteolate at the base. Calyx-tube campanulate, 

 tapered below, the mouth truncate, nearly '2 in. wide. Bud of petals 

 conical. Fruit depressed-globular, crowned by the small calyx-limb, 

 yellowish, '2 in. in diam. 



Andaman Islands ; King's Collectors, 357, 452. Nicobar Islands. 



A Bpecies with leaves somewhat like those of M. garcinioides, Bl., but narrower. 

 In its inflorescence it resembles M, acuminatum, Sm., but tlie peduncles are longer 



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