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furfuraceous with small dark-brown scales, the peduncles terete 
or very obscurely angled, 0.5 to 2 cm long. Flowers blue or 
purplish, numerous, crowded in subglobose heads on the ends 
of the ultimate branchlets, the buds subglobose, obtuse, the 
pedicels about 3 mm long. Calyx about 2 mm in diameter, trun- 
cate, very obscurely 4-toothed, somewhat broadly funnel-shaped, 
about 2 mm in diameter. Petals ovate, 1.6 mm long, acute 
or obtuse. Filaments 2.5 mm long. Fruit globose, dark-purple 
when mature, the pericarp fleshy, when dry about 6 mm in 
diameter. 
Luzon, Province of Nueva Ecija, For. Bur. 22U17 Alvarez: Province 
of Pangasinan, For. Bur. 962i. Zschokke: Province of Pampanga, Merrill 
1395, For. Bur. 17737 Curran: Province of Batangas, For. Bur. 7657, 
7922, Curran & Merritt: Province of Bataan, For. Bur. 5776, 7155, 17607, 
Curran, Merrill 2U95, 3788 (type), Whitford 83, 299, 1022, Elmer 6723, 
6796, Williams 225, 656, 728, For. Bur. 82, 206 Barnes, For. Bur. 730, 
820, 1185 Borden, For. Bur. 2191 Meyer, Bur. Sci. 164-7, 1887 Foxworthy. 
A species previously confused with Memecylon edule Roxb., most of 
the specimens cited having been determined as that species and the dupli- 
cate material so distributed. It is more closely allied to Memecylon acu- 
minatum Sm., and to M. grande Retz., as interpreted by Cogniaux, than to 
M. edule. It is readily distinguishable by its dark brown-furfuraceous, 
not glabrous, inflorescence. The species is rather local, and most of the 
numerous specimens cited above are from a single locality, that is, Lamao 
River, Province of Bataan, Luzon. Cuming 1151, referred by Cogniaux to 
Memecylon cumingianum, is probably M. subfurfuraceum. 
Var. DEPAUPERATUM var. nov. 
A typo differt foliis minoribus, 5 ad 8 cm longis, cymis brevio- 
ribus, vix 2 cm longis, minus furfuraceis. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, For. Bur. 1992 Ahern’s collector (type), 
Loher 6034: Province of Tayabas, Merrill 1936. 
In essential characters this form appears to be very closely allied to 
typical Memecylon subfurfuraceum, and although it differs from the species 
not only in its smaller leaves but also in its shorter and less furfuraceous 
inflorescence, I have considered it best to indicate the form merely as a 
variety of the above species rather than as a distinct one. Two or three 
other specimens, in different stages and scarcely directly comparable, may 
be referable here. 
Memecylon edule Roxb. has been credited to the Philippines by several 
different authors, F.-Villar, Vidal, Cogniaux, and myself, but it is exceed- 
ingly doubtful if the species really extends to the Archipelago, and equally 
doubtful if it should be interpreted as a broad collective species as Cog- 
niaux ’ has considered it. It seems to me that Cogniaux has referred to 
Memecylon edule Roxb. several forms that are worthy of specific rank, 
and I have no hesitation in so considering the one form that extends to 
the Philippines, M. edule var. ovatum C. B. Clarke==M. ovatum Sm. 
’DC. Monog. Phan. 7 (1891) 1155. 
