MEMECYLON, MELASTOMACEJE (AUCT. COGNIAUX). 1131. 
interdum intus radiatim sulcatus, ore integerrimo vel breviter obtu- 
seque 4-lobo. Petala late ovata vel orbicularia, obtusa vel apiculata, 
torta. Stamina 8, zequalia, filamentis filiformibus; antherz breves, 
dolabriformes, loculis rima antice dehiscentibus, connectivo basi non 
producto, dorso incrassato et ssepius dilatato glandula sessili concava 
aucto, postice obtuse calearato vel cornuto. Ovarium omnino adhz- 
rens, uniloculare, vertice depresso vel convexo glaberrimum et sæ- 
pius sulcatum; stylus filiformis, stigmate punctiformi; ovula 6- 
12 rarissime 20, circa placentam centralem liberam verticillata, 
adscendentia, micropyle extrorsum infera. Bacca globosa, apice 
depressa, sepius l-sperma. Semen magnum, adscendens, embryone 
exalbuminoso carnoso crasso involuto, cotyledonibus acutis, radicula 
tereti infera. 
Arbores vel frutices glaberrimi, Asiæ Australiz ins. maris Pacifici 
Africæque tropicæ incolæ, ramis teretibus vel interdum apice qua- 
drangulatis. Folia sessilia vel breviter petiolata, coriacea, sæpius 
Ovata vel oblonga, integerrima, penninervia vel interdum trinervia. 
Flores inter minores, albi vel ezrulei rarius rubescentes, sæpissime 
axillares vel infra folia oriundi, fasciculati vel in cymas simplices vel 
plus minusve composito-ramosas subumbellatas vel corymbiformes 
dispositi. 
Sect. I. SPATHANDRA (Gen. Spathandra Guill. et Perr. l. c.). — 
Inflorescentiz: plerumque terminales, magnie, cymoso-corymbosse, 
floribundz. Flores hermaphroditi. — Spec. 1-2. 
1. M. Spathandra (Blume! l.c. 361); foliis brevissime petiolatis, 
sæpius breviter acuminatis, adjecto utroque nervulo tenuissimo sub- . 
marginali 5-nerviis, supra opacis, nervulis transversalibus utrinque 
valde distinctis; calyce pateriformi, limbo subintegerrimo. — Spa- 
thandra exrulea Guill. et Perr.! I. e. 313, tab. 71; Naud. l. c. 263 et 
XII, tab. 10, fig. D. — Memecylon ezruleum Hook. f.! 1. c. 461 (non 
Jack). ; : 
Arbor 6-10 m. alta, ramis robustiusculis, teretibus. Petiolus cras- 
sus, 3-5 mm. longus. Folia ovata vel ovato-oblonga, coriacea, 1*,- 
2 dm. longa, 7-11 em. lata. Cymæ 6-20 cm. longæ; pedicelli ad apices 
ramulorum umbellatim dispositi, filiformes, 5-7 mm. longi, basi 
minutissime bracteolati. Calyx 2'/,-3 mm. latus. Petala acuta. Bacca 
6 mm. crassa. 
| In Senegambia (Perrottet? Heudelot); ad flum. Bagroo (Mann); in 
: Sierra Leone (Afzelius, Don, ete.); in Gabonia (Duparquet). 
