Memeeylon.] lx. melastomacej;. (C. B. Clarke.) 559 



A shrub 2-3 ft. (Dalzell). Calyx-tube at the time of flowering saucer-shaped, 

 limb truncate. Buds not large nor acute. Disc depressed, rays obscure. Berry 

 1 in. wide, ovoid, subglobose (broader than long), areola J in. wide. — This species 

 has the branehlets with i lines and sometimes almost quac&angular : it is probably 

 not distinct from M. amabile No. 7. 



23. Itl. caeruleum, Jac^ in Mai. Misc. i. 26 (not of GuiU. 8f Perr.); 

 leaves 4^6 in. ovate or oblong acute not acuminate, berry \ in. ellipsoid much 

 longer than broad areola prominent J in. broad. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 

 680; Trianain Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 158; Kurz For. Fl. i. 511. M. cor- 

 datum, Wall. Cat. 4100, partly ; Griff. Notid. iv. 673. M. maniUanum, Naud. 

 in Ann. Se. Nat. aer. 3. xviii. 276 ; Miq. I. c. 576. M. lutescens, P)-esl Epim. 

 Bot. 208, not of Naud. 



Southern Max at Peninstila. with its islands, plentiful. — Disteib. Philip- 

 pines. 



Shrub 10 or 12 ft. Leaves opaque, sessile, rounded at the base, secondary and 

 marginal nerves inconspicuous. Peduncles clustered, thick ; inflorescence l-lj in. 

 Cdyx-tuhe at the time of flowering funnel-shaped ; buds obtuse. Flowers somewhat 

 large, intense blue. Disc much depressed, rays obscure. — Widejy cultivated in Ben- 

 gal, &c., for the sake of its bright blue flowers. The branehlets are round as Jack 

 states and not quadrangular as Presl states : but there is no doubt as to Presl's 

 plant as he describes from Cumming's No. 2322 which is M, cceridewm. Of Kurz's 

 M. asndeum. Tar. 2. floribwndv/m, I know nothing. 



"^ ks.. pdchrum, Kurz For. Fl. i. 610 (sp.); peduncles and pedicels more slender. 

 — Andamans, Kurz. Kurz's specimens have the inflorescence hardly more slender 

 than in M: cceruleum. Kurz appears to have abandoned the distinction he founded 

 on the less ellipsoid berry. 



24. m. amplexicaule, Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 260 ; leaves 2-6 in. elliptic or 

 oblong amplexicaul, peduncle 0, pedicels less than \ in. slender clustered, 

 berry | in. globose or subovoid, areola |- in. broad somewhat prominent. Wiyht 

 Ic. t. 279 ; W. ^A. Prodr. 320 ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xviii. 277 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 580. M. depressum, Bemth. in Wall. Cat. 4101 ; Triana 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 158. M. sessile. Wall. Cat. 4112. M. cordatum, 

 Wall. Cat. 4:100 partly. 



PiNANS Boxburgh, Wallich. , , 



Leaves sometimes acuminated, secondary nerves prominent. Buds small, obtuse. 

 Flowers pale yellowish-blue. Disc depressed, rays obscure. Berry not longer than 

 broad.— This (and not M. ctBruleum, as Triana says) is certainly Eoxburgh's M. 

 amplexicaule, for, besides other reasons, Roxburgh's figure, preserved at Kew, has 

 yellow flowers. 



Tab. 1. malabarica ; leaves often not exceeding 2-3 in., sometimes distinctly 

 petioled, never acuminate, secondary nerves obscure. — Nilghiris, Mts. of Kurg, &c., 

 plentiful. Not from Ceylon, for Thwaites, No. 2570 cited by Triana is M. Wiffhtii, 

 No. 3. 



Vae. 2. cordata, Wight mss. ; branehlets distinctly quadrangular.— This seems 

 not remote from No. 7 a/mab%le. 



25. HI. macropliyllum, Thwaites Fnum. Ill ; leaves 6-12 in. oblong- 

 lanceolate, peduncles 0, pedicels short, berry ^ in. diam. spherical. Triana in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 158. 



Cetlon; alt. 1000-3000 ft., TAroaito. 



Leaves with the nerves little impressed but both the secondary and marginal 



