Ord. melastomacea 



Subord. I. MEMECYLE1. 



1. MEMECYLON, Linn. 



1. Memecylon Vitiense, Sp. Nov. 



M. ramulis subteretibus ; foliis uninerviis aveniis oblongis obtusis scepiusve 

 in acumen obtusum vel retusum productis basi in petiolum brevius- 

 culum attenuatis siccatis subtus flavidis; pedunctdis solitariis brevis- 

 simis plurifloris; pedicellis nudis fructu globoso seu ovoideo kevi 

 dimidio bremoribus. 



Var.? (3. foliis latioribus nunc ovalibus apice rotundatis subtus haud 

 flavescentibus. 



Hab. Feejee Islands: Muthuata and Ovolau, at the elevation of 

 1,000 to 1,500 feet. 



The specimens are all in fruit only : they are said to belong to a 

 shrub, of 8 or 10 feet in height. Branchlets nearly terete. Leaves 

 oblong, H to 2 J inches long, from 7 lines to an inch wide, usually 

 tapering more or less to both ends, the apex into a short and obtuse or 

 retuse acumination, the base acutely narrowed into a petiole of 2 or 3 

 lines in length, sometimes the apex is directly obtuse; the texture 

 coriaceous ; the midrib prominent ; the veins obsolete, or a few trans- 

 verse ones barely perceptible ; the colour above fuscous, beneath yel- 

 lowish. Peduncles solitary in the axils of the leaves, rarely in pairs, 

 very short (a line or two, rarely 3 lines long), nearly terete, evidently 

 several-flowered; the pedicels ebracteolate, 14 or 2 lines long in fruit, in 



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