Memecylon.\ 
MELASTOMACEiE. 
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shrub, with slender tetragonal branchlets, the hard wood used to make 
pestles for the mills of cocoa-nut-oil. Leaves short-petioled, oblong, 
obtuse, rigidly coriaceous, cuneate at the base, 2-3 in. long, with only 
the midrib visible. Flowers solitary or two from a short peduncle 
in the axils of the leaves ; pedicels straight, in. long. Calyx-tube 
with a short spreading obscurely toothed limb. Mature berry globose, 
black, the size of a pea. M. Pervilleanum, Naudin. 
Seychelles, in woods of Mahe and Praslin and the other islands at an elevation 
of 400 to 800 feet above the sea. Perville ! Horne ! Bois Caleau or Bois Caloo. 
4. M. cor datum, Desv. ; DC. Prod. iii. 6. A much-branched 
shrub, with slender terete branchlets. Leaves sessile, rigidly coriaceous, 
shining, penninerved, 3-6 in. long, acute or subobtuse, cordate at the 
base, the basal lobes sometimes imbricating. Flowers in distinctly 
peduncled cymes from the swollen nodes ; pedicels exceeding the 
calyx. Calyx Jg- in. long and broad, obconic, narrowed at the base, 
truncate. Petals deltoid, as long as the calyx. Stamens and style 
included. M. latifolium, Bojer , Hort. Maur. 133. 
Mauritius, frequent in woods. Also Bourbon. M. latifolium , Bojer, is a shade 
form, with large leaves scarcely cordate at the base. 
5. M. sphserocarpum, DC. Prod. iii. 6. A much-branched shrub, 
with slender terete branchlets. Leaves short-petioled, oblong, obtuse, 
often emarginate at the point, cuneate at the base, 1-3 in. long, rigidly 
coriaceous, with only the midrib visible. Flowers in sparse sessile or 
short peduncled fascicled cymes from the swollen nodes ; pedicels as 
long as the calyx. Calyx obconic, in. long, distinctly 4-toothed. 
Petals deltoid, as long as the calyx. Stamens and style not exserted. 
Unripe berries green, globose, the size of a pea. M. ramiflorum, Bojer, 
Hort. Maur. 132, non Lam. M. tinctorium, Sieber. M. ligustrinum and 
rhamnoideum, Naud. 
Mauritius, frequent in the forests. Also Bourbon. 
Order XLYII. ONAGRACEJE. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite Calyx -tube adnate to the ovary, 
long and slender ; teeth 4-5, persistent. Petals 4-5, obovate, epigy- 
nous. Stamens inserted with the petals, definite ; filaments filiform ; 
anthers oblong, didymous, slit down the side. Ovary inferior, 4-5- 
celled ; ovules many ; placentation axile ; style filiform ; stigma capitate. 
Fruit capsular. Seeds numerous, minute, exalbuminous. — Herbs, with 
alternate entire exstipulate leaves and solitary flowers in the axils of the 
leaves. Distrib. Cosmopolitan. Species 300. 
Stamens twice as many as the sepals 1. Jusslea. 
Stamens as many as the sepals 2. Ludwigia. 
1. JUSSIiEA, Linn. 
Calyx-tube adnate, cylindrical, 8-10-ribbed ; teeth 4-5, persistent. 
