74 NEW AND EAEE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



The specimens of this are very poor, and King puts it 

 under the doubtful species. In the branches and form of the 

 flowers it suggests an affinity with M. fruticosa but its opaque 

 nerveless small leaves make it quite distinct. I cannot place 

 it under any of our known species. 



Memecylon laxiflorum, Wall. Cat. 4472. A large shrub with 

 grey branches. Leaves stiffly coriaceous ovate, obtuse or acu- 

 minate, base round, nerves very faint and slender about 8 

 pairs when dry, dark above, reddish below 4-4.5 in. long, 2-3 

 in. across, petiole .4-.5 in. long, stout. Cymes 1-4 from axil 

 of fallen, leaves. Peduncle .3 in. long bearing a number of 

 cymules on short pedicels .1 in. long with longer, slender 

 pedicels .2 in. long. Calyx campanulate, base hemispheric, 

 limb larger, truncate. Petals 8, short, subacute, blue. Fruit 

 globose with very little trace of the calyx limb, .25 in. through 

 on a cyme 2.5 in. long. 



Singapore (Wallich 4472). Johor; Minvak Buku 

 {Ridley 11092) and Pinerong (Ridley 15396). * Pexang; 

 Beach behind Muka Head (Curtis 723). 



This seashore shrub differs from M. oleaefolium, Bl. in its 

 stirrer, round leaves with a longer petiole and fewer pedicels 

 with shorter cymes. The nerves though slender and not ele- 

 vate are quite visible, they inarch into a lateral nerve close 

 to the margin. 



Memecylon amplexicaule, Koxb. Fl. Ind. ii. p. 260. 



A specimen of this plant so labelled by Roxburgh occurs 

 in the British Museum, and is certainly M. microstomum, 

 Clarke. Roxburgh's description agrees perfectly with the 

 specimen and does not at all agree with the plants put under 

 this name by Wight, Clarke, King or other botanists. Rox- 

 burgh states that his species is veinless which is the case in 

 microstomum but the species named amplexicaule by other 

 botanists has peculiarly strongly developed veins on the leaf. 

 Wight's plant so named in Icones 279, is not Roxburgh's and 

 may be M. Wightii, Thw. of Ceylon. M. depressum, Benth. 

 Wall. Cat. 4101 was never described. There are 2 or three 

 plants mixed under the number 4101 and it is impossible to 

 guess which Bentham intended, nearly all Wallich's specimens 

 labelled M. amplexicaule, Roxb. are the correct plant. His 

 only sheet of the Penang plant M. amplexicaule, King, etc.) 

 is labelled doubtfully as M. grande, Retz. which it is not. 

 There therefore appears to be no name for this plant, and as 

 King's description is apparently mixed, I separate and describe 

 this plant under the name of M. WaJlichii. A small tree, 

 branchlets 4-angled, leaves lanceolate acuminate or ovate, base 

 minutely cordate, coriaceous, nerves about 18 pairs inarching 

 .1-.15 in. within the margin, very nearly sessile the thick petiole 

 concealed by the lobes of the leaf at the base, 7-8 in. long, 



Jour. Straits Branch 



