Memecylon.] LX. MELASTOMACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 559 



A shrub 2-3 ft. (Dalzell). Calyx-tube at the time of flowering saucer-shaped, 

 limb truncate. Buds not large nor acute. Disc depressed, rays obscure. Berry 

 i in. wide, ovoid, subglobose (broader than long), areola in. wide. This species 

 has the branchlets with 4 lines and sometimes almost quadrangular : it is probably 

 not distinct from M. amabile No. 7. 



23. BK. ceeruleum, Jack in Mai. Misc. i. 26 (not of GuiU. $ Perr.) ; 

 leaves 4-6 in. ovate or oblong acute not acuminate, berry \ in. ellipsoid much 

 longer than broad areola prominent in. broad. Miq. "FL Ind. Sat. i. pt. i. 

 580; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 158; Kurz For. Fl. i. 511. M. cor- 

 datum, Wall Cat. 4100, partly ; Griff. Notid. iv. 673. M. manillanum, Naud. 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xviii. 276 ; Miq. 1. c. 576. M. lutescens, Presl Epim. 

 Bot. 208, not of Naud. 



Southern MALAY PENINSULA with its islands, plentiful. DISTRIB. Philip- 

 pines. 



Shrub 10 or 12 ft. Leaves opaque, sessile, rounded at the base, secondary and 

 marginal nerves inconspicuous. Peduncles clustered, thick ; inflorescence 1-1 \ in. 

 Calyx-tube at the time of flowering funnel-shaped ; buds obtuse. Flowers somewhat 

 large, intense blue. Disc much depressed, rays obscure. Widely cultivated in Ben- 

 gal, &c., for the sake cf its bright blue flowers. The branchlets are round as Jack 

 states and not quadrangular as Presl states : but there is no doubt as to Presl's 

 plant as he describes from Cumming's No. 2322 -which is M. ccerideum. Of Kurz's 

 M. Cfsruleum, var. 2.floribundum, I know nothing. 



YAH. pulchrum, Kurz For. Fl. i. 510 (sp.); peduncles and pedicels more slender. 

 Andamans, Kurz. Kurz's specimens have the inflorescence hardly more slender 

 than in M. caruleum. Kurz appears to have abandoned the distinction he founded 

 on the less ellipsoid berry. 



24. M. amplezicaule, Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 260 ; leaves 2-6 in. elliptic or 

 oblong amplexicaul, peduncle 0, pedicels less than \ in. slender clustered, 

 berry ^ in. globose or subovoid, areola in. broad somewhat prominent. Wight 

 Ic. t. 279 ; W. 8f A. Prodr. 320 ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xviii. 277 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 580. M. depressum, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 4101 ; Triana 

 ,in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 158. M. sessile, Wall. Cat. 4112. M. cordatum, 



Wall. Cat. 4100 partly. 



PINANG Roxburgh, Wallich. 



Leaves sometimes acuminated, secondary nerves prominent. Suds small, obtr 

 Flowers pale yellowish-blue. Disc depressed, rays obscure. Berry not longer 

 broad. This (and not M. caruleum, as Triana says) is certainly Koxburg' 

 amplexicaule, for, besides other reasons, Koxburgh's figure, preserved at Y 

 yellow flowers. 



VAR. 1. malabarica; leaves often not exceeding 2-3 in., sometimes distinctly 

 petioled, never acuminate, secondary nerves obscure. Nilghiris, Mts. 

 plentiful. Not from Ceylon, for Thwaites, No. 2570 cited by Trianr 

 No. 3. 



VAR. 2. cordata, "Wight mss. ; branchlets distinctly quadran" eems 



not remote from No. 7 amabile. 



25. IK. macrophyllum, Thwaites Enum. Ill ; avei C-1% ii , oblong^ 

 lanceolate, peduncles 0, pedicels short, berry ^ in. di r j jph^ical. Triana in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 158. 



CEYLON; alt. 1000-3000 ft., Thwaites. 



Leaves with the nerves little impressed but ' t>tb uhe econdary and marginal 



