1900.] G. King — Materiah for a Flora of the Malayan Pemnsnla. 79 
13. Memecylojt amplexioaule, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 260, A shrub, 
S-12 feet liigli ; bmnclies rather Blender, terete between, but 4-angled 
and BOmetimea 4- winged below the nodes. Leaves (tinged with greenish- 
yellow when dry) sessile or nearly 90^ often semi-amplexicanle, ovate- 
oblong or ovate-lanceolate, eub- acute or shortly and bluntly acuminate, 
broadest a little above the cordate base, penni- nerved i the main nerves 
9-12 pairs, not prominent, interaching inside the margin ; length 3 5-6 
in. ; breadth 1-2-5 in. Flowers *2 in. long, crowded in dense, axillary 
^lonienili 1 in, or less in diameter ; their pedicels very short 
(lengthened to '25 in. in fruit) and with minute bracteoles. Calyx 
canipannliatc, truncate, much narrowed to the base. Petals sub-orotund, 
■2 in. in diara, Frnii globose, '3 in. in diara. Wight Ic. 279. Naud. 
in Ann. Sc, Nat. Sor. 3, X^^ITI, 277; Miq. Fl. Tnd. Bat. I, pt. I, 
580; C. B- Clarke in Hoi>k. fil. Fl. Bv, Ind. II, 559 (in part); Cogn. 
in DC. Mon, Plian. VIT, 1139 (in part). M. depressmn, Benth. in Wall. 
Cat 4101 (in part); Triaua in Liun, Trans. XXVIII, 158 (in pivrt). 
M. cordatmn. Wall. Cat. 4100 (in pari). J/, coerulumf Triana in Linu. 
Trans. XXVIII, 158 (in part). 
In all the Provinces except the Andaman and Klcobar Islands; 
common. 
The pttiils of this are white linked with pinfc. The plant described by Eox- 
burgh nnder the name if, amplexieaule is a, Malayan one, aa he diatitifcly afcates. 
The apeciea from the South of India which has, io moafc of the synonyms above 
qaoted, baein treated fl5 identical with this is, tn my opinion, qnito distinct. It 
baa aniftllor and proportionately broader leaves, and the flowera, which are atnaJler 
and mora llumcrona, are in fascicles from the nxlls of fallen leaveB. Thia ia allied 
to if. costatunif and like it, thifi has the atoms often 4.wlnged below the nodea j 
the leaves are also leasile or nearly ao, but they differ from those of AT, eostaium in 
invariably being cordate at the base. 
14 Memectlon microstomum, Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 
§57. A tree, 40-70 feet high ; branches terete, ratlier slender, dark 
greyish -brawn when dry. Leaves very conaceoua, sessile and almost 
amplexicaul^ oblonfj or narrowly elliptic, sub-acufce or obtuse, the base 
rounded and slightly cordate, very opaque, the nerves very indistinct ; 
length 3'25-4"rj in. ; breadth l'3'-2 in, J'Zoiyejs numerous, small, less 
than 'i in long (excluding the esserted Btamens)^ crowded in dense 
axillary glomeruli, pedicels filiform, Cahjx-hthe infundi bull form, 
constricted in its lower third, the month wide truncate. Petals pale 
yellowiah-gi^een. J'nn'Marge ("6 in, in diam,), globular, the persistent 
calyx-limb small. Cogn, in DC. Mon. Pban. VII, 1147. 
Malacca ; JWam^ai/ (Kew Distrib.) 821 ; Ferak ; Wray IIS7 [ King's 
QolUcior 10588, Sjsoapork \ Eidleij 2033. Penaso ; Cttrtis 7GG, 
