86 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



thnn in that species. The infloi-esceuce also resembles that of M. intermedium, Bl., 

 but when young it is covered with a yellow waxy coat ; the pedicels and peduncles 

 ai'e moreover much shorter than in M. intermedium. The leaves resemble those 

 of the latter species in shape but are of a thinner texture so that the nerves are 

 visible though faint. 



27. Memecylon intermedium, Blume, Mus. Bot. I, 358. A tree, 

 20-40 feet high ; young branches slender, terete, pale cinereous. Leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, broadly ovate, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the 

 base cuneate, greenish above and brown beneath when dry ; main 

 nerves invisible or nearly so; length 2-75-3"5 in. ; breadth 1*25-2 in. ; 

 petiole •25-'35 in. Cymes large, crowded, in the axils of leaves or of 

 fallen leaves, usually in pairs, on peduncles several times longer than 

 the petioles, compoundly umbellate ; pedicels slender, bracteolate at 

 the base, '1 in. long. Calyx-ttibe cup-shaped, with a wide, truncate, 

 edentate or minutely toothed limb. Fruit not seen (globose fide 

 Cogniaux). Triana in Linn. Trans. XXVIII, 157; C. B. Clarke in 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 561 ; Cogn. in DC. Moa. Phan. YII, 1158. 

 M. umhellatmn^ Blume, Bijdi\ 1094 (not of Burm.) Naud. in Ann. Sc. 

 Xat. Ser. 3, XVIII, 273 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 575. M. garcinioides, 

 Bl., VAR. elongatiim, Blume, Mus. Bot. I, 358. 



Perak; ScortechiriilOB6. Distrie, Sumatra; Java. 



Tliis resembles M. garcinioides, Bl., very closely, but difEers in inflorescence, the 

 cymes of this being larger, on longer peduncles. 



28. Memecylon edule, Roxb., Corom. Plants I, t. 82. A shrub 

 or small tree ; young branches terete, pale when dry. Leaves coriaceous, 

 drying brown, the lower surface paler, both often with an olivaceous 

 tinge, elliptic or ovate, the apex sub-acute or shortly and bluntly 

 acuminate, the base usually cuneate but sometimes rounded ; main 

 nerves 5-8 pairs, very inconspicuous, ascending ; length 2-4 in. ; 

 breadth •85-2-25 in.; petiole •1--35 in. Peduncles several together, 

 unequal in length, longer than the petioles, axillary, umbellately cymose, 

 many-flowered ; pedicels longer than the calyx. Calyx'tube cupular, 

 narrowed to the base, the limb truncate, sometimes obscurely 4-toothed. 

 F7-uit globular, crowned by the small calyx-limb, '25 in. in diam. 



Only two of the numerous varieties of this species occur in our 

 region. These are as follows : — 



Var. 1. typica. Leaves usually under 3 in. long, dull, tinged with 

 yellow when dry, acute or obtuse. M. edule, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 260 ; 

 DC. Prodr. 111,^6; Wall. Cat. 4107; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 93; 

 Kurz, For. Fl. I, 512. M. edule, var. a, Thwaites Enum. 111. M. umbel- 

 latum, Burm. Fl. Zeyl. t. 31. M. tinctorium, Keen, ex W. & A. Prodr. 

 319; Wight 111. t. 31. M. glohifertim, W^all. Cat. 4108. M. pyrifolium, 

 Naud. iH Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XVIII, 277. 



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