574 PHANEROGAMIA. 



a simple fascicle or cyniule. Fruit globose, or in the narrowest-leaved 

 specimens ovoid (but these probably less mature), not at all depressed, 

 apparently dry, smooth and even, 4 lines in diameter ; the minute limb 

 of the calyx apparently truncate. Cotyledons apparently foliaceous 

 and much contortuplicate. 



The var. ? (3. may not improbably belong to another species, which 

 cannot be characterized without better materials. The leaves are 

 larger and broader, sometimes oval and rounded at the apex, mostly 

 oblong, not drying yelloicish underneath, or scarcely so. They closely 

 resemble those of if. edule, of which it may, perhaps, prove a variety; 

 but the more simple and shorter fruiting inflorescence occurs in the 

 axils of the leaves of the season. 



Several species of Memecylon from Cuming's collection were charac- 

 terized by Presl, in his Epimelise Botanicse, w r hich bears the date of 

 1849, but seems not to have been published until much later. This 

 publication appears to have been known to Blume, who, late in 1851, 

 published characters of many additional species, in his Museum 

 Botanicum Lugduno-Batavum. In the Annales des Sciences Natu- 

 relles for 1852 (in a part not published, however, until 1853), Naudin 

 has elaborated the species contained in the herbarium of the Paris 

 Museum, without being aware either of Presl's or of Blume's publica- 

 tions. There is a great confusion of names in consequence. 



2. Memecylon Calderense, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 71.) 



M. ramulis teretiuscidis ; foliis brevissime petiolatis oblongo-lanceolati* 

 sensim acuminatis basi rotundatis vel obtusis penninerviis, venis infra 

 marginem arcuato-conjimctis ; pedunculis plerumque birds vel ternis 

 e nodis ramorum jam foliis denudatorum ortis subangulatis o-5-radi- 

 atis umbellato-multifloris ; pedicellis flore cequilongis; calycis limbo 

 truncate integerrimo, fauce lamellis 8 septidata. 



Hab. Near Caldera, Mindanao; one of the Philippine Islands. 



Branches slender; the branchlets nearly terete, or obscurely angled. 

 Leaves very short-petioled (the petioles only a line and a half in 

 length), oblong-lanceolate, gradually acuminate into a slender point, 4 



