514 MELASTOMACER. [ Memecylon. 
Var. 1. subsessile: umbellets on peduncles less than a line long 
or almost sessile ; pedicels about a line long; leaves smaller. 
Var. 2. brevipedunculatum: umbellets on a 2-1 lin. long 
peduncle ; pedicels usually 2.lin. long ; leaves larger. 
Has.—Var. 2: apparentl uent in Tenasserim; also Pegu, above Ran- 
-goon.—F. kee dons Fe ai es ae 
9. M. elegans, Kz.—An evergreen shrub or small tree, all parts 
quite glabrous, the branchlets almost 4-winged or with 4 decurrent 
more or less obsolete raised lines ; leaves from oblong to ovate-oblong, 
at the base tapering into a 2-8 lin. long petiole, blunt or sometimes 
obscurely notched, 3-4 in. long, coriaceous, the lateral nerves only 
in young leaves visible; flowers blue, on 2-3 lin. long pedicels, 
forming a simple or trichotomous umbel-like cyme on }-3 in. long 
sharply 4-cornered peduncles arising usually by pairs or singly from 
the axils of the leaves or from above the scars of the fallen ones; 
__ ramifications very short or almost reduced; calyx smooth, nearly 
13 lin. in diameter, the adnate portion hemispherical, small; limb 
broad and explanate, waved and obscurely rounded-lobed, radiately- 
oe within, the lamellz almost nerve-like; petals, &., un- 
own. 
acs the tropical forests of South Andaman.—Fl. May.—s.—SS.= 
10. = eee, Bl.—An evergreen tree (20—25+6—10 
+4—1), all parts quite glabrous, the branchlets more or less sharp- 
ly 4-cornered ; leaves ovate to broadly ovate, on a slender petiole 
4-1 lin. long, bluntish apiculate or notched, rarely almost acute, 
1-1$ in. long, coriaceous, smooth, glossy above, the lateral nerves 
. 
= — very faint and thin; flowers minute, whitish, about 4 a line in 
