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several specimens variously identified as Memecylon tinctorium Koen., 
M. edule Roxb., and M. minutifiorum Miq., India, Meebold 8652, Malay 
Peninsula, Ridley 15396, Penang, Ridley, and specimens from Ceylon 
and Lingga cultivated in the Botanic Garden at Buitenzorg. 
As to my interpretation of Memecylon ovatum Sm., I must confess that 
I have followed Cogniaux, as the one description of Smith’s species avail- 
able, that given by DeCandolle, is altogether too short to supply an adequate 
idea of the species. Smith’s type should be examined and compared with 
the abundant Indian material now available. 
As to the synonyms quoted above, both Memecylon lucidum Presl and 
M. prasinum Naud. were based on Philippine material, and both on a single 
number of Cuming’s collection (No. 1445), although the number was not 
cited by Naudin. Memecylon parviflorum Blanco, which in the second 
edition of his “Flora de Filipinas” Blanco changed to M. tinctorium, is 
manifestly this form with ovate leaves. The species seems to be widely 
distributed in the Indo-Malayan region, and is well characterized by its 
rather thickly coriaceous leaves which are brown and shining when dry, 
and in comparison with the preceding by its entirely glabrous, not furfu- 
raceous infiorescences. 
8. MEMECYLON BRACHYBOTRYS sp. nov. 
Species M. apoensi affinis, differt inflorescentiis brevioribus, 
baud 2 cm longis, paucifloris, floribus minoribus, calycis 3 mm 
diametro, petalis 3 mm longis. 
A small tree, 8 to 10 m high, all parts glabrous. Branches 
and branchlets terete, slender, grayish, or the younger parts 
somewhat reddish-brown. Leaves ovate to elliptic-ovate, coria- 
ceous, penninerved, shining, 12 to 15 cm long, 5 to 8 cm wide, 
narrowed to the rather long-acuminate apex, the acumen stout, 
blunt, and to the acute base, the upper surface olivaceous when 
dry, the lower somewhat paler, margins slightly revolute, lateral 
nerves indistinct, slender, not anastomosing, about 12 on each 
side of the midrib, the midrib very prominent; petioles 5 to 
7 mm long. Inflorescence axillary, peduncled, cymose, 1 to 2 cm 
long, rather dense, few-flowered, the peduncles about 5 mm long, 
usually solitary, sometimes fascicled, the flowers 5 to 10 on each 
inflorescence, their pedicels 2 to 3 mm long. Buds shortly acu- 
minate, hardly rostrate. Calyx cup-shaped, truncate, obscurely 
and minutely 4-toothed, 3 mm long and wide. Petals triangular- 
ovate, acute, 3 mm long. Filaments and anthers each about 2 
mm long. Fruit ellipsoid, about 1.5 cm long, 0.8 to 1 cm in 
diameter, 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, For. Bur. 3070 Ahern's collector 
(type). May 27, 1905, Bur. Sci. 2631 Ramos, May, 1907: Province of 
Laguna, Paete, Bur. Sci. 10011 Ramos, July, 1909, For. Bur. 19279 Curran, 
Feb., 1910. 
The species, among the Philippines forms, is manifestly allied to Meme- 
cylon apoense Elm., from whcih it differs in its much shorter inflorescence 
