560 LX. melastomacej:. (C. B. Clarke.) [Memecylon. 



are Tieible. -Petals -pale blue (Thwaites).— Neither Mr. Th-waites' examples nor his 

 description show this species to differ from M. amplexicavU except by the leaves 

 being larger (see No. 4. M. Hooken). 



26. in. orbiculare, Thwaites Enum. 112 ; leaves IJ in. diam. orbicular 

 very thick and opaque, pedicels less than \ in. clustered. Triana in Tram. 

 lAnn. Soc. xxviii. 158. 



Ceylon; alt. 1000 ft., Hinidoon Corle; Thwaites. 



A small tree. Buds small, obtuse. Calyx-tube at the time of flowering saucer- 

 shaped. Petals blue. Disc obscurely rayed. 



27. TXm revolutuxn, Thwaites JEnum. Ill ; leaves 3 in. round-elliptic 

 coriaceous nerves impressed, peduncles clustered rather stout in fruit J in., 

 berry 5 in. diam. spherical mouth less than J in. wide. Triana in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xxviii. ]59. 



Ceylon ; alt. 5000 ft., Eambodde ; Thwaites. 



A small tree. Flowers small, white. Berry black-purple. Whole inflorescence 

 not exceeding 1 in. in the fruiting example communicated by Mr. Thwaites, but Mr. 

 Thwaites' picture shdws it 2 in. very dense and compound in flower. 



28. BI. deccanense, C. S. Clarke; leaves 4-5 in. narrowly oblong- 

 lanceolate, peduncle 0, pedicels clustered less than ^ in., flowers small. M. 

 Heyneanum, Wiffht Ic. t. 278 ?. M. Wightianum, Triana in Trans. Linn. Soe. 

 xxviii. 168 (not M. Wightii, Thwaites). 



Dbocan Peninsula ; Wight. 



Branches with 4 lines, ultimate branches terete. Leaves rounded and almost 

 cordate at the base, opaque, thin, secondary nerves not prominent ; petiole |- in. — 

 Separated by Triana from M. Heyneanum from which it considerably differs. As to 

 Wight Ic. t. 278 it exhibits exactly the leaves of the present species, but the in- 

 florescence appears rather to belong to the next. 



tttt Serry less than ^ in. diam. Inflorescence less than 2 in. Leaves 

 4r-6 in., long-petioled, narrow-lanceolate, acuminate at the base. 



29. m. Heyneanum, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 4102 ; leaves 4^7 in. lanceo- 

 late elongate nerves impressed narrowed into the petiole 5 in., inflorescence 

 less than 1 in., peduncles usually short, buds large acute. TV. Sf A. Prodr. 319 ; 

 Triana in Trans. lArm. Soe. xxviii. 158. M. jambosoides, Wight Ic. t, 277 ; 

 Thwaites JEnum. 112 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. i. pt. i. 680. 



Deocan Peninsula; Courtallum &c. Wight. Ceylon; up to 3000 ft., 

 Thwaites. 



Calyx-tube at the time of flowering broadly funnel-shaped, limb truncate. Disc 

 obscurely rayed. Berries less than \ in. diam., spherical, nearly sessile. — The typical 

 M. Heyneanum Benth. is a, well marked and easily recognised plant: but the two 

 varieties of Mr. Thwaites could never have been referred to it in the herbarium. 

 Mr. Thwaites says the berry is as much as | in. diam. in the Ceylon plants, but his 

 specimens at Kew do not show fruit. 



Vae. 1. latifolia ; leaves broader a fresh green colour narrowed almost to the 

 base so that there is scarcely any true petiole, nerves visible but slender and hardly 

 at all impressed. — Thwaites No. 2468. 



Vae. 2. angustifoUa ; leaves linear-lanceolate when dry orange yellow thick and 

 opaque. — Thwaites No. 1S5S. 



