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 Memecylon edule  Roxb.

Synonym	:	Memecylon globiferum Wall.
Family	:	Melastomataceae
Flowering and fruiting period	:	April-July
Distribution	:	India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Habitat	:	Along watercourses, prefers shade.
Uses	:	Medicinal.The wood is useful in construction
Key botanical characters: Large shrub or small tree; branchlets 4-angular; bark corky. Leaves opposite, ovate-acuminate, 4.2-8.3x1.6-3.7 cm, shining above, pale beneath, often with black dots, coriaceous, base rounded, apex acute; petiole 0.5-0.8 cm long; midrib distinct, secindary nerves very obscure. FLowers bright blue, in penduncled cymes, from old leaf axils. Calyx tube pink, slightly tubular-companulate; lobes rounded, spreading. Petals broadly ovate. Berry globose, deep purple to black.