52 A BOTANICAL EXCURSION TO PULAU ADANG. 
Pongamia glabra, Vent. 
Pulau Tengah, 
Desmodium vestitum, Benth. 
A shrub about 6 feet tall with mauve flowers. Pulau Butong. 
Previously known only from Malabar and Tenasserim. 
Desmodium umbellatum, De C. 
Seashore, Pulau Rawi. 
Mucuna gigantea, De C. 
Pulau ‘Tengah. 
Peltophorum ferrugineum, Benth. 
Big tree, seashore, Pulau Rawi. 
Albizzia myriophylla, Benth. 
Seashore, Pulau Butong and Pulau Adang. 
MELASTOMACEAE. 
Melastoma malabathricum, var appressum. 
Pulau Rawi. 
Memecylon coeruleum, Jack. 
Sea coasts, Pulau Rawi. 
Memecylon garcinioides, Bl. 
Pulau Adang. 
Memecylon edule, Roxb. 
Pulau Adang and Pulau Butong. 
Memecylon pulchellum, n. sp. 
A shrub or small tree, bark ridged longitudinally brown, twigs 
angled slender. Leaves rhomboid ovate gradually narrowed to both 
ends from the middle, obtuse at the apex, shining dull green above 
when dry; smooth olive green beneath, midrib depressed above, 
elevate beneath, nerves faintly visible, above 7 pairs, with a marginal 
one from the base 14 inch long # inch wide, petiole 45 inch long. 
Flowers in short dense very shortly peduncled cymes. Peduncles 
35 inch long. Bracts lanceolate acuminate. Pedicels + inch long. 
Calyx fundus very short in flower with 4 triangular teeth suddenly 
subulate. Petals ovate cuspidate azure blue = inch long. Sta- 
mens filaments slender bluish. Anthers curved yellowish with a 
conic blue spur behind. Style brilliant blue. 
Pulau Adang, Rawi and Butong on the seashore. A lovely 
shrub when in flower with innumerable tufts of blue flowers in the 
axils, 
Tour. Straits Branch 
