1900.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 71 



issued from the Leiden Herbarium shew that this differs from Blume's plant. 

 Specimens of this were originally collected by Griffith in 1845, and as none had 

 been gathered until Curtis's in 1886, the species is presumably a rare one. 



Var. cordata, King. Leaves with cordate bases. 

 Penang; Curtis 453. Perak ; Wray 1994. 



18. Memecylon, Linn. 



Shrubs or trees, glabrous. Leaves opposite, short-petioled or sessile, 

 coriaceous or sub-coriaceous, orbicular, ovate or lanceolate, entire, 

 pinnate-nerved or rarely 3-nerved. Flowers usually in small, axillary, 

 rarely terminal, simple or panicled cymes or umbels. Calyx-tube cam- 

 panula te, glabrous ; limb dilated, truncate or shortly 4-lobed. Petals 4, 

 blue or white, rarely reddish. Stamens 8, equal, filaments long ; anthers 

 short, opening by slits in front, connective ending in a horn behind. 

 Ovary inferior, 1-celled; apex glabrous, surmounted by a convex or 

 depressed disc with 8 radiating grooves ; style filiform, simple ; ovules 

 6-12, whorled on a free-central placenta. Berry globose or ellipsoid, 

 crowned with the calyx-margin, 1-seeded. Seed large, cotyledons 

 convolute.— Distrib. Species about 130 ; numerous in South-East Asia 

 and its islands ; a few extending into Polynesia and Australia, several 

 in tropical Africa. 



Leaves boldly 3-nerved from base to apex 

 Leaves with pinnate nervation, sessile or subsessile : — 

 Main nerves of leaves distinctly visible when dry, inter 

 arching but not forming (except in No. 3) a bold intra 

 marginal nerve ; leaves thinly coriaceous or membranous 

 small, not exceeding 4 in. in length : — 



Young branches boldly 4-angled or winged; inflor 

 escence very shortly stalked (the stalk not manifest) : — 

 Young branches 4-winged : — 



Cymes solitary, 3- or 4-flowered ; leaves narrowly 

 lanceolate, '6 to 1 in. broad 



Cymes solitary, 8- to 10-flowered ; leaves ovate- or 

 oblong-lanceolate, 1*35 to 1'85 in. broad 

 Cymes several from the same axil, compoundly 

 umbellate, 1*5 to 25 in. long, many-flowered, 

 pubescent ; leaves elliptic much narrowed to each 

 end ... 

 Young branches 4-angled, never winged and some- 

 times sub-terete : — 



Cymes 3- to 5-flowered : leaves lanceolate, 1 to 2 

 in. broad 

 Young branches terete ; inflorescence with a manifest 

 peduncle 



1. M. oligoneuron. 



2. M. epiphyticum. 



3. M. fruticosum. 



4. M. pulescens. 



5. M. dichotomum. 



6. M, Kunstleri. 



