Descriptions of Malayan plants. No. II. / [William Jack].

  • William Jack
Date:
[1820]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Descriptions of Malayan plants. No. II. / [William Jack]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( £6 ) however agree exactly with any other genus of the same family ; in habit it is somewhat like Alisma. MEMECYLON COERULEUM. (W.JJ Octandria Monogynia. Foliis cordatis amplexicaulibus, pedunculis axillari- bus brevibus, pedicellis appositis divaricatis brevibus, true Lib us ovatis. Kulit nipees.Malay. Native of Pulo Pinango % A handsome shrub of 10 or 12 feet in hieght, with round smooth branches. Leaves opposite, subsessile, about five inches in length, cordate, amplexicaul, ob¬ long, acute, very entire, margin reflexed, coriaceous, very smooth, deep green and shining above, lateral nerves inconspicuous uniting at their extremities into a line which runs parallel to the margin. Stipules none. Teduncles axillary, solitary, short few flowered; pedicels short and thick, opposite, somewhat, verticillate, diva¬ ricate, forming a kind of corymbiform head. Flowers blue. Bracts opposite, short, acute. Calyx superior, colored, smooth, nearly entire, becoming by age more distinctly four-toothed. C^ro'la deep blue, four petal- led, spreading, petals broad, ovate, acute. Stamina eight, erect, shorter than the corolla. Filaments short. Anthers blue, attached by their middle, horizontal.