Memecylon] LIT. MELASTOMACE-E 337 



D. Leaves sessile or nearly so, base cordate or rounded. 



15. M. malabaricum, Cogniaux. — Syn. M. amplexicaule, Roxb. var. 

 malabarica, Fl. Brit. Iucl. ii. 559 ; .1/. amplexicaule, Wight Ic. t. 279; M. 

 umbellatum, Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 206. 



A shrub or small tree, brauchlets round, 1. coriaceous, sessile or nearly so, 

 oblong-lanceolate from a cordate, often amplexicaul base, 2-6 in. long, sec. n. 

 generally obscure. Fl. on slender pedicels, in 10- to many-fid. umbels, peduncles 

 very short, thickened at the end, numerous small bracts at the base of pedicels. 

 Free part of calyx wide-campauulate -,\— ,-'„ in. at mouth, anthers much shorter 

 than connective. Fr. black r V in. diam. 



Western ghats down to the coast, from North Kanara to Travancore, mostly in ever- 

 green forests. Fl. Feb.-June. M. amplexicaule, Roxb. is an eastern species from Peuang, 

 Bee. n. and tntramarginal veins prominent beneath, calyx i in. wide at mouth, anther 

 cells nearly as long as connective. 16. M. deccanense. I '. B. Clarke, Western Peninsula, 

 imperfectly known, possibly only a form of 15, 1. membranous, narrower than 15. 17. 

 M. Wightii, Thwaites, Kanara, Ceylon, differs from 15 by branchlets acutely quadrangular 

 and winged. 



18. M. amabile, Bedd. Ic PI. Ind. Or. t. 163. South Kanara ghats, to 2,000 ft. A 

 large shrub or small tree, branchlets acutely quadrangular, 1. 2-3 in. long, sec. n. obscure, 

 fl. small, deep blue, pedicels slender, in inany-fld. often compound axillary umbels, 

 peduncle :( in. long. 19. M. terminate, l>alz., evergreen forests of North Kanara, a 

 large shrub, very similar to 18 and possibly not specifically distinct. Peduncles often 

 in the axils of the uppermost 1., hence appearing terminal. Fr. globose J in. diam. 



20. M. caeruleum, Jack. Andamans, Tenasserim. Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 

 A shrub, branches terete, often quadrangular below the nodes. L. sessile, coriaceous, 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate. 3-ij in. long. Fl. deep steel-blue, in shortly pedunculate 

 axillary bracteate compound cymes. Fr. elongate-ellipsoid, crowned by the deep-cup- 

 shaped calyx-limb, = in. long. 21. M. Kurzii, King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. <>9. 77. 

 Nicobar islands. A shrub, 1. nearly sessile, thinly coriaceous, 8-10 in, long, sec. n. 



i tight, 15 20 pa tr, joined by an intramarginal vein at a distance from edge. Cymes 

 8-4-flcL, from the axils of fallen leaves, calyx month i in. wide, wavy, with 4 broad 

 teeth. Fr. ellipsoid, j in. long. 



Dbdek LTII. LYTHRACE^. Gen. PI. i. 77:5 (LyUirariece). 



Herbs, slirulis or trees, 1. simple, entire, generally opposite, stipules 0, or 

 minute. Calyx cup-shaped, persistent, segments often with intermediate teeth, 

 valvate, petals imbricate ami crumpled in bud, sometimes wanting, filaments 



indexed in the bud. Ovary superior, sometimes adnate to the bottom of calyx. 

 inferior in Punica. Ovules numerous. S Is many, without albumen. 



In Engleru. Prantl iii. 7. p. I. 16, 22, the genera here described are classed under 

 three separate Orders, Lythracece, Sonneratiacea: [Sonneratia, Duabanga, Crypteronia) 

 and (with inferior ovary) Piinicacece (Pimica). 



A. Ovarj superior, fl. bisexual, symmetric. 



Inland trees or shrubs, fr. a drj capsule. 



Calyx-segments 6, capsule 8-6-valved . . .1. Laqkrstiuejiia. 



Calyx-segments 6, capsule circumsciss, . . . Pkmpbis p .'■.■''' 



Calyx-segments usually 7, capsule 4-8-valved. . 2, Duabanqa. 



Calyx-seg nts I, capsule bursting irregularly . Lawsonia (p. 840). 



Litornl trees, fr. fleshy, indehisceul .8. Sonnkbatia. 



B. Ovary superior, fl. bisexual, zyg irphic . . . W ikobdia p. 841), 



C. Ovary superior, fl. male and bisexual, pstals I. Cbvptkbonia. 

 It ( >varj inferior Ponica (p. 841). 



I. LAGERSTRCEMIA, Linn.; Fl. Brit. 1ml. ii. 575. 



Trees or shrubs; 1. Dearly opposite, or the uppermost alternate, entire. Fl. 

 in axillary or terminal panicles, calyx -tit lie broadly turbinate or hemispherical. 



