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sciss or irregularly rupturing. Petals 4. Stamens 8, equal ; fila- 
ments short, subulate; anthers from ovate to oblong and dolabri- 
form, age 2 by 2 longitudinal slits, the connective not produced, 
it without spurs at the base of the back. Ovary adhering to 
the aulyx; 4-celled, glabrous on the depressed apex ; style filiform, 
with a club-shaped or thickened stigma. Berry more or less globu- 
lar, truncate at the depressed apex, smooth or variously scaly or 
tubercled. Seeds angular-wedge-shaped.—Small trees or shrubs, 
with 3-nerved leaves. Flowers small, solitary, or clustered, or form- 
ing axillary cymes or panicles. 
Flowers in small edgier seed ogo . . ' . . P. coerulescens. 
Flowers in a sessile essile cyme or almost fascicled . P. capitellata. 
a , Jack.—An evergreen branched small tree, all 
labrous ; leaves from ovate to ovate-oblong, repereg into 
a short ao petiole, bluntish acuminate, entire, coriaceous, 2-34 
in. long, quite glabrous, glossy, especially beneath, 3-nerved, the 
transverse veins cetogteg faint ; flowers small, gree on $a line 
the end of the branches ote peas, bracts minute, 
ovate, aor calyx about a line long and wide, truncate or obso- 
letely toothed, in a dried state obscurely reticulate-scaly ; petals 
about the size of a pepper-kernel, i at the apex 
marked by the circular calyx-limb. 
Hap.—Tenasserim. 
. P. capitellata, Jack—An evergreen large shrub, all parts 
quite glabrous, the branches terete; leaves elliptically ovate to 
ovate, tapering in a strong 2-3 lin. long petiole, bluntish acumi- 
nate to bluntish, 3-5 in. long, coriaceous, entire, glabrous, rather 
opaque, strongly 3-nerved, with 2 faint intramarginal nerves, the 
transverse more or less curved veination faint ; flowers small, sky- 
blue, on a line long pedicels, forming small, sessile or almost sessile, 
brachiate, glabrous cymes often reduced to mere clusters ; ae 
smooth, about 14 lin. long, smooth, truncate; berries depressed-gio 
bular, the size of a small pea, s smooth, crowned by the shallow 
circular calyx-limb. 
Has.—Tenasserim. . 
MEMECYLON, L 
Calyx smooth, the tuhe hemispherical or bell-shaped, the limb 
dilated, entire, or shallowly 4-5-lobed, often radiately lamellate or 
nerved wi ithin. Petals 4 or 5. Stamens 8, equal ; filaments fili- 
