Mcmecylon.] 



Mclastoniacece. 



1 1 



L. acuminate or caudate. 

 L. over 4 in., fruit yellow. 

 L. lanceolate, thin 

 L. narrowly linear- 

 lanceolate thick 

 L. under 3 in., fruit purple. 

 L. ovate or oval. 

 Ped.vvith 2 bractlets 



beneath fl. . 

 Ped. without brctlts. 

 L. linear or lanceolate- 

 linear 

 L. under \ in., very crowded 

 and numerous . 

 Epigynous disk with the ridges strongly 

 winged (except sometimes in 26). 

 Twigs quadrangular. 

 L. over 3 in., fl. blue 

 L. under 3 in., fl. white . 

 Twigs cylindrical. 



Fruit f in. diam. .... 

 Fruit under § in. diam. 



L. not 3-nerved at base, fl. stalked. 

 Fl. large, buds pointed . 

 Fl. small, buds globose . 

 L. 3-nerved at base, fl. sessile 



16. M. Clarkeanum. 



17. M. DISCOLOR. 



18. M. FUSCESCENS. 



19. M. ROSTRATUM. 



20. M. ANGUSTIFOLIUM. 



21. M. PHYLLANTHIFOLIUM. 



22. M. RHINOPHYLLUM. 



23. M. LEUCANTHUM. 



24. M. MACROCARPUM. 



25. M. L.EVIGATUM. • 



26. M. GRANDE. 



27. M. CAPITELLATUM. 



1. Vt. Arnottianum, Wight in Thw. Ennm. 113 (1859). 

 Eugenia (?) capitellata, Arn. Pug. 17. C. P. 1589. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 553. 



A small bush, bark pale brown, smooth, branchlets slender, 

 cylindrical ; 1. i£-2 in., ovate-oval, subacute or rounded at 

 base, long-caudate-acuminate, obtuse at apex, pale beneath, 

 conspicuously 3-nerved, purplish when young, petiole very 

 short ; fl. very small, sessile, solitary or very few at apex of 

 slender, erect, axillary peduncles f-i in. long; cal.-segm. 

 large, triangular, acute; fruit about \ in., globular, blue-black. 



Forests of moist low country ; rather rare. Pasdun Korale ; Pelawatte, 

 abundant; Gilimale; Mapalagama. Fl. December-May; white. 



Endemic. 



The specimens from Gilimale have much larger leaves, 3-4 in. (var. 

 grandifolia, Cogn. Mon. 1 1 33). 



Called ' Pinibaru ' in Pasdun Korale, the name properly of Eugenia 

 Moonii, which it somewhat resembles. 



2. 1*1. Gardner!, Thiv. Enuvt. 113 (1859). 

 M. Thwaitesii, Cogn. Mon. 11 34. C. P. 2387. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 553. 



A small tree, bark yellowish-grey, smooth, branches much 

 thickened at nodes, twigs quadrangular, slightly winged at 

 angles ; 1. \\-2\ in., very shortly stalked or subsessile, usually 

 broadly oval, but sometimes rhomboid-lanceolate or rotundate, 



