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Memecylon. } MELASTOMACER. 515 
about 4 lin. long, bell-shaped, the adnate portion short, almost 
globular ; limb almost abruptly 4-toothed (the teeth linear, acute), 
radiately narrow-lamellate inside ; corolla in bud acuminate ; berries 
globular, the size of a pepper-kernel, smooth, 1-seeded, crowned 
by the sharply toothed calyx-limb, the disk smooth or very faintly 
cruciately 4-nerved. 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical coast forests of the Andamans; also Tenas- 
serim.—Fl. begin. of R.S.—s. 
, thin coriaceous, about 3-5 in. long, glab- 
tous, glossy above, the lateral nerves thin, but prominent and 
anastomosing towards the margins ; flowers minute, on } to nearly 
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fications nearly as long and more sharply 4-cornered ; calyx about 
§ lin. in diameter, explanate, the limb truncate and radiately lamel- 
late within, the borders obsoletely sinuate-4-angular; berries 
globular, the size of a pea, glabrous, one-seeded, crowned by the 
short calyx-limb, the disk radiately 8-lamellate. 
12. M. celastrinum, Kz.—An evergreen tree (30—40+-12—15 
+2—3}), all parts quite glabrous, the branchlets terete, with 4 
raised decurrent lines; bark ash-grey, smooth, hardly a line thick ; 
eut pale coloured, dry; leaves from elliptically to almost ovate- 
oblong and ovate-lanceolate, acute at the base, on a thick 2-24 lin. 
long petiole, shortly or long and almost caudate-acuminate, with 
or without a mucro, 4-5 in. long, thin coriaceous, rather glossy 
above, turning more or less yellowish green in drying, the lateral 
nerves thin, but visible and anastomosing towards the margins 
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ls, : 
poor umbellets on the very short partial peduncles and collected 
into a single or more usually two greenish white, glabrous, go 
_ ¢cled cymes in the axils of the leaves; peduncle about 8 to 5 lin. 
long, more or less compressed ; calyx white, smooth, nearly a line 
deep and 1-13 lin. in diameter, bell-shaped, then explanate, almost 
truncate and minutely 4-toothed, radiately lamellate within; petals 
nearly a line long ; berries globular, the size of large pea, glabrous, 
radiately 
green, l-seeded, crowned by the short calyx-limb, the disk 
