. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Medinilla] LII. MELASTOMACEiE OtjO eliiptiCj 8-nerved, often a second pair higher up, blade 3-6 in., petiole short. 1*1. pink, anthers dark blue, fr. ovoid, red or black when ripe, edible. 2. M. Beddlomei, C. B. Clarke {M. radicam, Bedd. Ic. t. 184). Evergreen forests of the Western Ghats from Coorg southwards. A fleshy epiphyte, 1. thick-fleshy, obtuse, nearly orbicular, IJ in. M. 1| in, long, solitary, on axillary peduncles, petals 4, pure wh
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Medinilla] LII. MELASTOMACEiE OtjO eliiptiCj 8-nerved, often a second pair higher up, blade 3-6 in., petiole short. 1*1. pink, anthers dark blue, fr. ovoid, red or black when ripe, edible. 2. M. Beddlomei, C. B. Clarke {M. radicam, Bedd. Ic. t. 184). Evergreen forests of the Western Ghats from Coorg southwards. A fleshy epiphyte, 1. thick-fleshy, obtuse, nearly orbicular, IJ in. M. 1| in, long, solitary, on axillary peduncles, petals 4, pure white, spathulate. 3. M. malabarica, Bedd. Ic. t. 157. Nilgiris, w^estern slojpes. Anamalais. Epiphytic, 1. very fleshy, elliptic, prominently 3- occasionally 5-nerved. Peduncles axillary, sometimes several together, 3-5-fld, EL, peduncles and pedicels of a brilliant crinason. B. Fl. in terminal cymes. 4. M. Mmalayana, Hook f. Sikkim 2,500-6,000 ft. Khasi hills. L. nearly sessile, broadly elliptic, ramifications of cymes slender, pedicels divaricate in fruit. El. J in. across, rose coloured. 5. M. paucijaora, Hook. f. Darjiling. Branch lets obtusely quad- rangular, 1. sessile, cymes few-fld. Blastus cochinchirLensis, Lour. Assam (Nambar Forest, March 1879 ). China, Tonkin, Cochin China, Eormosa. A shrub, young shoots and young 1. clothed with round resinous scales, 1. elliptic-lanceolate, blade 3-6, petiole i-l in. long, 3 basal nerves joined by distant sec. n. El. small, tetramerous, white, on minutely tubereled pedicels m sessile umbels sometimes axillary, more often from the axils of fallen leaves, stamens 4, equal. Capsule tightly enclosed by the calyx, loculicidally 4--valved. Seeds minute, numerous, on a central 4-winged placentiferous axis, at both ends long acuminate, falcate. 5. MEMECYLON, Linn.; El. Brit. Ind. ii. 553. Evergreen glabrous shrubs or trees. L. coriaceous, penninervedj sec. n, often obscure, rarely apparently 3-nerved. EL blue or white, tetramerous, in
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