560 LX. MELASTOMACEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Memecylon. 



are visible. Petals pale blue (Thwaites). Neither Mr. Thwaites' examples nor his 

 description show this species to differ from M. amplexicaule except by the leaves 

 being larger (see No. 4. M. Hookeri). 



26. UK. orbiculare, Thwaites Enum. 112 ; leaves 1 in. diam. orbicular 

 very thick and opaque, pedicels less than \ in. clustered. Triana in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xxviii. 158. 



CEYLON; alt. 1000 ft., Hinidoon Corle ; Thwaites. 



A small tree. Buds small, obtuse. Calyx-tube at the4ime of flowering saucer- 

 shaped. Petals blue. Disc obscurely rayed. 



27. UK. revolutum, Thwaites Enum. Ill ; leaves 3 in. round-elliptic 

 coriaceous nerves impressed, peduncles clustered rather stout in fruit f in., 

 berry \ in. diam. spherical mouth less than ^ in. wide. Triana in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xxviii. 359. 



CEYLON ; alt. 5000 ft., Eambodde ; Thwaites. 



A small tree. Flowers small, white. Berry black -purple. Whole inflorescence 

 not exceeding 1 in. in the fruiting example communicated by Mr. Thwaites, but Mr. 

 Thwaites' picture shows it 2 in. very dense and compound in flower. 



28. BX. deccanense, C. B. Clarke^ leaves 4-5 in. narrowly oblong- 

 lanceolate, peduncle 0, pedicels clustered less than \ in., flowers small. M. 

 Heyneanum, Wight Ic. t. 278 ?. M. Wightianum, Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxviii. 158 (not M. Wightii, Thwaites). 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; 



Branches with 4 lines, ultimate branches terete. Leaves rounded and almost 



cordate at the base, opaque, thin, secondary nerves not prominent; petiole in. 



*' ^parated by Triana from M. Heyneanum from which it considerably differs. As to 



Vight Ic. t. 278 it exhibits exactly the leaves of the present species, but the in- 



w florescence appears rather to belong to the next. 



tttt Berry less than % in. diam. Liftorescence less than 2 in. Leaves 

 4-6 in.j long-petioled, narrow-lanceolate, acuminate at the base. 



29. M. Heyneanum, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 4102; leaves 4^7 in. lanceo- 

 late elongate nerves impressed narrowed into the petiole in., inflorescence 

 \i 1 in., peduncles usually short, buds large acute. W. 8f A. Prodr. 319 ; 

 Triana \iTrans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 158. M. jambosoides, Wight Ic. t. 277 ; 

 Vnum. 112 ; Miq. Fl. Ind: Bat. i. pt. i. 580. 



\ 

 PENINSULA; Courtallum &c. Wight. CEYLON; up to 3000 ft., 



it the time of flowering broadly funnel-shaped, limb truncate. Disc 

 Berries less than \ in. diam., spherical, nearly sessile.- The typical 

 nth. is a well marked and easily recognised plant: but the two 

 ir. Thwaites could never have been referred to it in the herbarium. 

 -'teg siy* bhi berry is as much as | in. diam. in the Ceylon plants, but his 

 -t show fruit. 



;ves broader a fresh green colour narrowed almost to the 

 cely any true petiole, nerves visible but slender and hardly 



No. 2468. 



leaves linear-lanceolate when dry orange yellow thick and 

 -sNo. 1555. 



