510 _ MELASTOMACEA, [ Memecylon. 
or shrubs, with usual] nninerved or rarely 3-nerved leaves. 
Flowers usually small, in axillary clusters, cymes, or umbellets. 
* Calyx radiately nerved within, the nerves raised and lamel- 
ofa 
late cape the gills mushroom 
© Leaves more or less thick coriaceous without visible 
latera Fens 
F Leaves with cordate or rounded base, ae or on 
pe short thick petioles, Flower tcuous, 
nehlets terete, 
vn _ pel very short and robust; berries ovoid-oblong, 
- HM. ceruleum, 
Cgmin: rk seit mE pares slender pedicels slouder, 2-3 lin, 
long - M. pulchrum, 
tt Leaves es_petioled,» more or less tapering at " base, 
contracted in a moperately long 
A Brane aiiggas 9 or only with very 
faintly raised li Flowers small, calyx up 
toa ss = diameter, oncoth not tubercled. 
Leaves ep at base, smooth and shinin. petiole 3-4 lin. long ; 
pedicels 2-3 tin long ; pmb fuple ¢ oF ¢0 sesiieinds pedun ree NM, edule, 
Leaves atrenante * t base, sharply a nate ; polisels, 1- “ih lin 
long ; umbel-like —— es short, pt aaa cled : iM plebejum. 
base, very acuminate, glossy ; " petiole 1- 2 lin, 
dee peices hardly a line ae thick ; cymes very short, 
almost sess’ . UU. levigatum. 
A Branchlets ov les tiveie, masked with 
4 eae sas Calya about 14 lin. wide, 
Pedicels thick and short; x undulate-truncate, with a hemi- 
spherical tubercl ne ine bluntish or retuse, shortly acu- - 
minate . a eee - M. punctatum. 
Branchlets lets deangular or almost “4-winged. 
As former, bat Oe am 3 eymes short peduncled or 
— det ie gyrate coloured in drymg . . UM. soutellatum. 
rather ¢ peduncled ; inves 3-4 in. long, turning 
diceut? in aoe . WM. elegans. 
Calyx about 4 lin. wide, sharply 4-too toothed. Leaves only #-1k lin. 
— pedicels about a aetna cymes pected nae narins 
‘ . M, paueiflorum, 
a O Leaves thin coriaceous, with the lateral ‘nerves and 
often also the vei es. 
nerves arcuate-anastomosing towards the Be 
= thyrsoid es pedicels 1-2 lin. long; calyx # lin. 
wide, the limb sinuate-4-angular . M. Griffithianum. 
ormer, sole a more slender 5 cymes simple; ‘calyx 1-14 
; berries the size of a pea. . M. celastrinum. 
short or almost + reduced; berries the size of 
— 2° - WM. cerasiforme, 
