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[2355133]!, P[00512064]!)
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sensu
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, tab. 9: 12), non Gilg ex
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Habit not specified, presumably a small understory tree. Young branchlets finely quadrangular, becoming terete with age; internodes
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long. Leaves dark green on the upper surface, paler below; petioles stout,
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long; blades elliptic-oblong, 17.524 ×
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(ca. three times longer than wide), cuneate at base, abruptly acuminate at apex, the acumen narrow,
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long, acute; mid-nerve impressed on the upper surface, prominent on the lower; lateral nerves and transverse veins much thinner than the mid-nerve, somewhat prominent on both the upper and lower surfaces in dried material; transverse veins 1618 pairs oriented at an oblique angle relative to the mid-nerve, straight or occasionally forked and spaced
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apart; lateral nerves situated
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from the ± undulate margins, forming a series of arcs between their junctions with the transverse veins. Cymes contracted, axillary and also borne at the bracteolate nodes alternating with those bearing fully developed leaves; peduncles
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long. Flowers not seen. Fruits 13 per cyme, borne on pedicels
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long, narrowly ellipsoid-urceolate in outline,
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long ×
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wide, crowned by the persistent calyx
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high, the calyx margin shallowly sinuate and 4-microdentate.
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<emphasis id="59D3EA948F33B7750BDEFA6BFE51FA14" bold="true" box="[189,484,1497,1524]" pageId="3" pageNumber="266">Distribution and habitat:</emphasis>
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is known only from the
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collection made in southeastern
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(
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). The name “Vanply” indicated on the specimen-labels refers to an American-owned logging company that built a large integrated sawmill and plywood mill at the port of Greenville. The habitat of the
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collection is not indicated, but was presumably in lowland evergreen forest near a place called Nema Camp (also known as Vanply Logging Company) located about
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due north of Greenville at elevation ca.
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above MSL.
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—Flowering period unknown. Fruiting in February.
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—The name
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<emphasis id="59D3EA948F33B7750AB4F90BFD40F934" box="[471,757,1721,1747]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="266">Memecylon emancipatum</emphasis>
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is here taken up for the species to which the name
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<emphasis id="59D3EA948F33B7750E4CF908FA1EF934" box="[1327,1451,1721,1747]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="266">M. liberiae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was previously misapplied (
<bibRefCitation id="0F364B778F33B7750ADAF96DFD20F91E" author="Jacques-Felix, H." box="[441,661,1759,1785]" pageId="3" pageNumber="266" pagination="409 - 432" refId="ref6690" refString="Jacques-Felix, H. (1979) Especes nouvelles et peu connues du genre Memecylon (Melastomataceae) en Afrique. Adansonia, ser. 2 18: 409 - 432." type="journal article" year="1979">Jacques-Félix 1979</bibRefCitation>
). The new species is similar to
<taxonomicName id="ACA74D058F33B7750882F952FB27F91E" authorityName="Cogniaux (1891:" authorityYear="1194" box="[993,1170,1759,1785]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Memecylon" kingdom="Plantae" order="Myrtales" pageId="3" pageNumber="266" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="englerianum">
<emphasis id="59D3EA948F33B7750882F952FB27F91E" box="[993,1170,1759,1785]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="266">M. englerianum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in having “subtrinervate” leaves (sensu
<bibRefCitation id="0F364B778F33B7750A40F8B6FD8CF8F9" author="Jacques-Felix, H." box="[291,569,1796,1822]" pageId="3" pageNumber="266" pagination="409 - 432" refId="ref6690" refString="Jacques-Felix, H. (1979) Especes nouvelles et peu connues du genre Memecylon (Melastomataceae) en Afrique. Adansonia, ser. 2 18: 409 - 432." type="journal article" year="1979">Jacques-Félix 1979: 424</bibRefCitation>
), but differs by its subquadrangular young branchlets (
<emphasis id="59D3EA948F33B7750FFFF8B7FB0EF8F9" box="[1180,1211,1797,1822]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="266">vs.</emphasis>
terete), larger leaves, shorter petioles, transverse veins 1618 pairs (
<emphasis id="59D3EA948F33B77509E8F898FD1FF8A4" box="[651,682,1834,1859]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="266">vs.</emphasis>
812), cymes borne on shorter peduncles with fewer fruits per cyme, and fruits elliptic-urceolate (
<emphasis id="59D3EA948F33B7750AA4F8E2FE50F88E" box="[455,485,1872,1897]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="266">vs.</emphasis>
elliptic-ovate). Illustrations of
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<emphasis id="59D3EA948F33B7750822F8E2FC48F88E" box="[833,1021,1872,1897]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="266">M. emancipatum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
have been previously published under the name
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<emphasis id="59D3EA948F33B7750B96F8C7FEC4F869" box="[245,369,1908,1934]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="266">M. liberiae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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: tab. 9: 12,
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: tab. 2: 15).
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</subSubSection>
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