Memecylon. } MELASTOMACER, 511 
* *& 9 not radiate-lamellate veined within, or the nerves 
wong: faint 
Leaves sessile or nearly 30, turning yellowish and opaque 
ing; cymes sessile, umbel-like ; calyx conspicuously 4- pote M. umbellatum. 
* Calyx radiately nerved within, the nerves raised and lamellate 
like the gills of a mushroom. 
. M. ceruleum, Jack.—An evergreen shrub, 10 or 12 ft. 
high, all parts glabrous, the branchlets terete or nearly so; leaves 
almost sessile or on a very short thick petiole, from elliptically 
ovate to —— rounded or almost cordate at the base, blunt 
or retuse and mucronate, or acute or rarely apiculate, 4-5 im. long, 
thick coriaceous, with the lateral nerves not or almost not visible, 
labrous, the narrow hyaline borders recurved ; flowers conspicuous, 
g 
but not large, deep steel-blue, on short thick pedicels, forming avery - 
short robust eyme on a very short peduncle, or almost sessile and 
solitary or several together in ie axils of the leaves or above the 
_ sears of the fallen ones; peduncle and branchings thick = almost 
terete ; bracts and bractlets mimute, ovate-triangular, acute; calyx 
smooth, bell-shaped, about a line long and a little wider, the limb 
truncate and remotely minute-toothed, eruciately and lamellately 
4-nerved within, the nerves 2-cleft from the middle, + 
ees nerves very faint; filaments very short, the aadtinsrt 0 
ry large, with a gland in front of the apex ; berries ellipsoid-oval 
or > allied id-globular, smooth, about the size of a large pea, y 
Lesoded eas wned by the tubular at middle 4-angular scared calyx- 
limb, the disk marked by the 4 broad cruciately diverging nerves) 
Q-cleft ae their middle. 
Var. 1. ceruleum proper: berries ellipsoid-oval, up to nearly 
5 lin. long; leaves almost sessile, 'y acute. 
Var. 2. floribundum (1. floribundum, Bl.): berries ay 29 
oval, up to nearly 5 lin. long; leaves on a petiole 1- A$ lin. long 
rounded at the base, usually acute. 
Var. 3. Griffithianum (/. — Griff.): berries ellipsoid- 
globular, rer 3-4 lin. in diameter; leaves almost sessile, 
ay or retuse with a muero. 
sae var. 3, but this apparently frequent in Tenasserim.—Fl. ‘Yelp 
ae r. March. 
ulchrum, Kz. — An evergreen tree, all parts quite 
edeg id branchlets nearly terete; leaves large, sessile, b: 
See ios, rounded or almost cordate at the base, blunt or notch- 
, 5-6 in. long, firmly coriaceous, l-nerved without visible la 
nerves or veins, glabrous, glossy above; flowers sky-blue, pa 
to 23 lin. long, terete pedicels, in few-flowered umbellets 
