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ripe bluish black and edible, by abortion usually }-seeded, crowned 
by the calyx-limb, the disk radiately 8-lamellate. 
Haxs.—Frequent in the tropical and moister upper mixed forests from Mar- 
taban down to Tenasserim ; also Chittagong.—Fr. Nov.-Feb.—s, 
5. M. levigatum, Bl—An evergreen small tree, all parts quite 
glabrous, the branchlets terete; leaves lanceolate to elliptically 
lanceolate, slightly oblique, at the acuminate base decurrent into 
Has.—Tenasserim.—Fr. Oct. 
6. M. plebejum, Kz.—An evergreen tree (20—25+8—10+ 
2—3), all parts quite glabrous, the branchlets terete with 4 raised 
lines ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, tapering into a short petiole, sharply 
caudate-acuminate, 14-24 in. long, in drying turning blackish, 
thin coriaceous, the lateral nerves thin and faint ; flowers minute, 
on 1-13 lin. long slender pedicels, umbellate, and forming a very 
short peduncled or almost sessile trichotomously branched small 
eyme in the axils of the leaves; calyx explanate-bell-shaped, about 
a line in diameter; the limb ample, minutely and distantly 4- 
toothed, radiately lamellate within ; petals, &., unknown. . 
Haxs.—Frequent in the swamp forests of the Irrawaddi alluvium; rather 
rare in the Prome and Ava—s.—SS. = All. : 
7. M. punctatum, Prsl—An evergreen shrub or tree (?), all 
parts quite glabrous, the branchlets with 4 decurrent raised lines; 
leaves from lanceolate to elliptically lanceolate, on a short but slender 
petiole 1-2 lin. long, shortly bluntish acuminate, but not retuse, thick 
coriaceous, without lateral nerves or veins, ina dried state blistered- 
dotted, 1-2 in. long, opaque ; flowers small, on 1-14 lin. long, thick, 
stiff pedicels, forming a poor umbellet on the 1-2 lin. long peduncle 
or almost sessile in the axils of the leaves or above the scars of 
the fallen ones; calyx about a line wide, the adnate portion almost 
globular and tubercled-rough ; the limb ample and almost truncate, 
radiately lamellate within ; petals ovate-triangular, acute; stamens 
exserted ; berries globular, the size of a very small pea, almost 
smooth, 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
8. M. scutellatum, Naud.—An evergreen bushy shrub or small 
tree, all parts quite glabrous, the branchlets 4-cornered and 4-lined ; 
leaves small, from elliptically oblong and oblong to obovate, retuse 
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