Memecylon myrtilli Blume

1220Memecylon rhlnophyllum Thw, free in red clay
of forests on a bench at IftSo feet; stem 1 foot thick, 30
feet high* chiefly branched toward the top; wood deep brown
at least on the outside, hard brittle» odorless and tasteless;
baric thin, dull gray to brown, sealing in thin longitudinal
platesi branches crooked, ultimately numerously rebranched,
the twigs ascending and quite rigid; fruits clustered upon
1 inch long green stalks, along the branchlets; the fruit not
exceeding i/g inch across, globose, deep wash am blue when
mature, with a single brown orustaeeous seed; leaves rigidly
coriaceous, ascending, slightly recurred and folded upon
the uppsr shining deep green surface, muehj^ “
shining green beneath, Ifagallanes, Apr:
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