1900,] G. Klng^Maien'ah for a Flora of the Malayan Fettimuta, 83 
Tmmerons, crowded, 2-3-floTvered nmbellules with a semi-circakr brftofc 
at the bases of tlaoir short, stout, 4- angled pedanolos. Flowers with 
conical buds, less than '1 in. in diam., on slendei' pedicels longer than 
theraselvefl, bracteolate at their bases, Oahjx hemiapheric ; the month 
truncate, entire. FniU ovoid-elliptiCj crowned by the short calyx-limb, 
•4 long and '25 in. in diain. Miq. Fl, lud. Bat, I, pt. I, 579 (excl. syo.) ^ 
Cogn. in DC. Mon, Phan. VII, 1150. M, Eorsfiddii, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 
I, pt. I, 572. M. grande, Retz, var. EorsJieliUit Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl, 
Br. Ind. IT, 558; Cogn, in DC. Hon.' Phan. YII, 1153 (oxel. syn, 
M, celaslHnumf Kurz from both), if. lampongnmi Miq, FL Ind. Bat. 
SuppL 321. 
Malacca; Jtfamgrai/ (Kew Distrib.) 811, Sikoapore ; Ridley 6414 
Perak ; Scortechini 2069 ; Ring's Collector 426, 5187, 4420, 4i39, 8571. 
DiSTRiB, Bangka ; Horsjield ; Sumatra ; Forbes 3213. 
This has been treated by Messrs. Clarke and Cogniaux aa a variety of If. grandc 
of Eetz, a species originally described by its author from speoimens sent to him by 
Koenig, wbo collected in Soiithem India. Hetz's description 19 very short and, as 
Mr. Clarke polnta ont, would auifc several specioa. The species of Memecylon hare 
not, as a rule, a wide diatribuLion, and very few indeed of tliem are common to 
S, India or Ceylon and to tho Malay Peninanla, I think it, therefore, in the absence 
of his tjpc specimen, advisable to consider Refcz'a name as properly belonging to 
the Ceylon plant represented by Tliwaitos's O.P. 8443. Both Moasrs. Clarke and 
Cogniaujc treat as belonging to typioal M. t?ramitf, Eetz, the Singapore plant ieaiied by 
Wallicli as No. 4472 of his Oatalogne nnder tho name M. la^ijloriim. This plant is 
now repreaeiited only by fruiting apecimons wliioh do not, in my opinion agree with 
any other Memecylon in Herb. Kew. The inflorescooce in WalHch's specimens is 
2'S in. long, pefiuncalute, and laily compound-umbeUate. Wben flowers shall be 
forthcoming it will probably be foaad neeeasary to let tho species M. laaijlorum 
stand good. 
Thwaites*B CP, which I aasame, in the absence of a type speoiraen, to be equal 
to the typo of M. grande, RetZj does not in my opinion resemble tho fonr forma 
which tb© two distingniehed botanista juat mentionod agree in treating as varieties 
of it, sufficiently closely to warrant saoh treatment of the latter. I would ventor© 
to dispose of them as follows : — 
Vab, Horsfieldii-M, oleaefolinm, Bl. Tab, khaalana=BI, oolaatrinura, Kurs, 
Vae. pubescons =M< pubescens, King. Var. merguioa^M, mergtiica, King. 
M. Cogniaui has inadverteBtly described the fruit of M. oleacfolimn as globose, 
whereas in his original description of it Blume writes fntctibiia dLipHoidGis.** 
22, Memecyloh pauciflokfm, Blume, Mua. Bot. I, 356. A small 
tree ; yoting branches 4-angled, elender, pale-brown. Leaves coriaceous, 
rhomboid or elliptic-rhomboid, drying brown, tho lower surface paler, 
tlic apex blunt and often retuse, the base acute or subacute ; nerves 6 
or 7 pairs, invisible or very faint ; length 1-1*5 in.; breadth '35-1 in, ; 
petiole under 'l in. Cymes umbellatcj asillary, on slender peduncles *l-"2 
in. long; flowers 7-10, small, on slender pedicels bracteolate at the base 
