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point: fruit either dry-or succulent, free or distinct from the 
calyx, valvate and loculicide or baccate and indehiscent; seeds 
numerous, small: albumen none: embryo straight or curved, 
with equal or unequal flat or convolute cotyledons. 
GENUS I. MEMECYLON. 
@etandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. A Greek term applied by Dioscorides to the Arbutus to 
which this genus bears some resemblance. 
Gen. Cuar. Shrubs: branches knotty at the origin of the leaves, 
usually 4-angled when young: limb of the calyx small, obtusely 
4-toothed or repand or almost entire: petals 4, oval: stamens usu~ 
ally longer than the petals: anther-cells opening by a short cleft at 
the end next the beak. 
(1) M. namrrtorum. (Lam.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 319.Dee. prod. III. p. 6. 
Syn. M. umbellatum, Gaertn.—M. angustifolium, R.W. var 
M. tinctorum, Koen. W. § A. prod. 1. c.—M. edule, Roxb. fl. Ind. 
II. p. 260.—M. capitulatum, Linn.—M. Heyneanum, Benth. W. 
§& A. prod. Ll. ¢. 
Engrav. Wight’s lll. I.t. 93.—Icon. t. 276, 278.—Roxb. Cor. 
I. t. 82.—Rheede Mal. V. t. 19.—Burm. Zeyl. t. 31. 
Srec. Cuar. Arborescent: leaves short-petioled, ovate or ob» 
Jong, 1-nerved: peduncles axillary and below the leaves on the 
older branches, bearing a more or less compound corymb with pedi- 
cellate flowers: pedicels 1-flowered, each springing from a small ses» 
sile cup-shaped scale or bract: fruit globose, crowned with the limb 
of the calyx, 1-2-seeded: flowers small, blue. 
Coromandel. Muhableshwur. Western Ghauts. Travancore. 
Flowering in the hot season. : 
(2) M. amptexicavutz. (Roxb. ) 
Ident. Roxb. fl. Ind. Il. p. 261.—W. & A. prod. I. p. $20.. 
Syn. M. cordatum, Lam. 
Engrav. Wight’s Teon. t. 279.—Rheede Mal. II. t. 15. 
Spec. Cuar. Shrub or small tree: leaves sessile, cordate at the 
base, from ovate to oblong and gradually acuminated : peduncles 
wanting : pedicels 1-flowered, arranged on a sessile axillary tubercle 
or receptacle: petals orbicular, sessile: stamens scarcely longer 
than the petals and about half the length of the style: fruit some- 
what globose, 1—3-celled, 1-3-seeded : flowers small, blue. 
Travaneore. Malabar. Flowering in the hot season. 
