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than in that species. The inflorescence also resembles that of M. intermedium, Bl., 

 but when young it is covered with a yellow waxy coat ; the pedicels and peduncles 

 are moreover much shorter than in M. intermedium. The leaves resemble those 

 of the latter species in shape but are of a thinner texture so that the nerves are 

 visible though faint. 



27. Memecylon intermedium, Blume, Mus. Bot. I, 358. A tree, 

 20-40 feet high. ; young branches slender, terete, pale cinereous. Leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, broadly ovate, shortly and bluntly acumiuate, the 

 base cuneate, greenish above and brown beneath when dry ; main 

 nerves invisible or nearly so ; length 275-3 , 5 in. ; breadth 1*25-2 in. ; 

 petiole ^-^S in. Cymes large, crowded, in the axils of leaves or of 

 fallen leaves, usually in pairs, on peduncles several times longer than 

 the petioles, compoundly umbellate ; pedicels slender, bracteolate at 

 the base, '1 in. long. Calyx-tube cup-shaped, with a wide, truncate, 

 edentate or minutely toothed limb. Fruit not seen (globose fide 

 Cogniaux). Triana in Linn. Trans. XXVIII, 157; C. B. Clarke in 

 Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. II, 561 ; Cogn. in DO. Mon. Phan. VII, 1158. 

 M. umbellatum, Blume, Bijdr. 1094 (not of Burm.) Naud. in Ann. Sc. 

 Nat. Ser. 3, XVIII, 273 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 575. M. garcinioides, 

 BL, var. elongatum, Blume, Mus. Bot. I, 358. 



Perak; Scortechini 1036. Distrib. Sumatra; Java. 



This resembles M. garcinioides, BL, very closely, but differs in inflorescence, the 

 cymes of this being larger, on longer peduncles. 



28. Memecylon edule, Roxb., Corom. Plants I, t. 82. A shrub 

 or small tree ; young branches terete, pale when dry. Leaves coriaceous, 

 drying brown, the lower surface paler, both often with an olivaceous 

 tinge, elliptic or ovate, the apex sub-acute or shortly and bluntly 

 acuminate, the base usually cuneate but sometimes rounded ; main 

 nerves 5-8 pairs, very inconspicuous, ascending ; length 2-4 in. • 

 breadth '85-2-25 in.; petiole '1-35 in. Peduncles several together, 

 unequal in length, longer than the petioles, axillary, umbellately cymose, 

 many- flowered ; pedicels longer than the calyx. CalyX'tube cupular, 

 narrowed to the base, the limb truncate, sometimes obscurely 4-toothed. 

 Fruit globular, crowned by the small calyx-limb, *25 in. in diam. 



Only two of the numerous varieties of this species occur in our 

 region. These are as follows : — 



Var. 1. typica. Leaves usually under 3 in. long, dull, tinged with 

 yellow when dry, acute or obtuse. M. edule, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 260 ; 

 DC. Prodr. Ill, 6; Wall. Cat. 4107; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 93; 

 Kurz, For. Fl. I, 512. M. edule, var. a, Thwaites Enum. 111. M. umbel- 

 latum, Burm. Fl. Zeyl. t. 31. If. tinctorium, Keen, ex W. & A. Prodr. 

 319; Wight 111. t. 31. M. globiferum, Wall. Cat. 4108. M. pyrifolium, 

 Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XVIII, 277. 



