Memecyion.] Meiastomacece. 213 



slender ped. crowded in fascicles on axillary tubercles usually 

 on the old wood, no peduncle ; cal.-limb nearly truncate ; 

 disk without rays ; fruit small and conspicuously crowned 

 with cal.-limb. 



Yar. |3, cylindricum, Trim. Wight, Ic. t. 279 (M. amplexicaule). 



Branchlets quite cylindrical, not winged. 



Lower montane zone ; rather rare. Hewaheta ; Maturata ; Uda 

 Pusselawe. Var. /3, Central Prov. (Thwaites). Fl. March and September; 

 bluish-white. 



Also in S. India. 



Var. )S appears to be precisely Wight's M. amplexicaule, which, 

 according to Fl. B. Ind., p. 559, is a distinct species. If that work be 

 correct in saying that this is also M. amplexicaule of Roxburgh, that 

 name should take precedence. 



5. IK. parvifolium, Thw. Eman. 113 (1859). 



M. varians, var. parvifolium, Trim. Syst. Cat. Ceyl. 35. C. P. 2955, 

 758. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 556. 



A small tree, sometimes reaching 30 ft, with very numerous 

 branchlets and grey finely cracked bark, twigs quadrangular; 

 1. f-i in., broadly oval or obovate-oval, tapering to base, 

 obtuse or rounded at apex, not at all acuminate, coriaceous, 

 quite veinless (except midrib), with a very narrow cartilaginous 

 margin, dark green and shining above, pale and dull beneath, 

 petiole short but distinct ; fl. few, small, ped. about as long 

 as cal.-tube, cymes very small, nearly sessile ; cal.-tube short, 

 limb spreading, cup-shaped, segm. broad, shallow, acute; rays 

 of disk very indistinct ; fruit about \ in., tipped with very 

 small cal.-limb, black. 



Forests of the upper montane zone; rather common. Fl. May; white. 



Endemic. 



This is combined with M. varians in Fl. B. Ind., but seems distinct. 

 Thwaites (L c. 416) distinguishes C. P. 758 (from Ramboda) as a large- 

 leafed form (M. Thomsoni, Thw. ms.) = var. Tlwmsoni, Triana. 



Much resembles some of the small-leaved montane Eugenias ; the 

 young foliage also, as in them, is red. Wood yellow, hard, heavy. 



6. M. varians, T/tiu. Enum. 112 (1859). 

 Cogn. 1. c. 1 164. C. P. 2927. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 556 (in part). 



A small tree, much branched, twigs quadrangular, slender; 

 1. 2-3^ in., ovate-lanceolate, acute or tapering at base, more or 

 less caudate-acuminate, acute or obtuse at base, dull not 

 shining, rather thick, veins very obscure, petiole very short ; 

 fl. nearly sessile, in small axillary heads, peduncles very short ; 



