Memecylon.} MelastomacecZ. 2 1 5 



A small tree, branches thickened at nodes, twigs stout, 

 cylindrical ; 1. very large, 6-12 in., narrowly lanceolate-oblong, 

 very nearly sessile, more or less cordate or rounded at base, 

 acuminate, acute, veins indistinct ; fl. on very short ped. in 

 dense axillary sessile clusters on the old wood ; disk not 

 rayed ; fruit rather over \ in., crowned with wide but shallow 

 cal.-rim. 



Moist low country; rather rare. Hewesse; Gangolla. Fl. white or 

 very pale blue. 



Endemic. 



Very like M. Wightii, but the leaves much larger. 



10. 2VX. ovoideum, Thw. Enum. 112 (1859). 

 C. P. 2621. 



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



A small tree with grey bark, twigs thick, cylindrical ; 1. 

 large, 2^-4 in., nearly sessile, oval-rotundate, often retuse at 

 apex, margin often revolute, very coriaceous, pale beneath, 

 veins inconspicuous ; fl. rather large, on very short ped., 

 fascicles sessile, crowded, axillary, on old wood ; disk without 

 rays ; fruit \- § in. by f wide, ovoid, purple. 



Montane zone; very rare. Ambagamuwa district; Dimbula. Fl. 

 Feb., March. 



Endemic. 



Clarke in Fl. B. Ind. appears to combine the very different M. viacro- 

 carpum with this, in which he is followed by Cogniaux ; but the former 

 quotes for ovoidewn C. P. 2622 (which is Eitgenia cordifolid), and says 

 also that it is M. revolntum; so that the whole is of doubtful meaning. 



11. M. revolutum, Thw. Enum. in (1859). 

 Cogn. 1. c. 1 147. C. P. 2975. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 560. 



A small tree with thick branches, twigs stout, cylindrical ; 

 1. 2-3 in., nearly sessile, rotundate, subcordate at base, very 

 obtuse, much revolute at sides and apex, coriaceous, somewhat 

 bullate, lat.-veins few, coarse, rather conspicuous beneath ; 

 fl. small, ped. twice as long as cal., in rather large peduncu- 

 late panicles from axils of fallen 1.; cal.-limb expanded, segm. 

 broad, acute ; disk with faint rays ; fruit about § in., globose, 

 purplish-black. 



Montane zone, apparently very rare. Palagala, near Ramboda, at 

 about 5000 ft., is the locality of the C. P. specimens. Fl. Sept.; white. 



Endemic. 



C. P. 751, from Ambagamuwa district, appears to be also this species, 

 which has, doubtless, been overlooked from its foliage closely resembling 

 several other montane trees. 



12. VI. orbiculare, Thw. Enum. 112 (1859). 

 Cogn. 1. '.. 1163. C. 1'. 3441. 



Fl. 1'j. Ind. ii. 112. 



