memcache not being recognised

I have installed memcache according to this tutorial. It is running and I can see it using phpmemcacheadmin. However, W3TC is not seeing it. The only option I can use for Object and Database caches is Disk.

My compatibility test config is below:

Plugin Version: 0.9.4
PHP Version: 5.5.9-1ubuntu4;
Web Server: Apache
FTP functions: Installed (required for Self-hosted (FTP) CDN support)
Multibyte String support: Installed (required for Rackspace Cloud Files support)
cURL extension: Installed (required for Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, Rackspace CloudFiles support)
zlib extension: Installed (required for compression support)
Opcode cache: Not installed
Memcache extension: Not installed
HTML Tidy extension: Not installed (required for HTML Tidy minifier suppport)
Mime type detection: Installed (Fileinfo) (required for CDN support)
Hash function: Installed (hash) (required for NetDNA / MaxCDN CDN purge support)
Safe mode: Off
Open basedir: Off
zlib output compression: Off
set_time_limit: Available
mod_deflate: Installed (required for disk enhanced Page Cache and Browser Cache)
mod_env: Installed (required for disk enhanced Page Cache and Browser Cache)
mod_expires: Not installed (required for disk enhanced Page Cache and Browser Cache)
mod_headers: Not installed (required for disk enhanced Page Cache and Browser Cache)
mod_mime: Installed (required for disk enhanced Page Cache and Browser Cache)
mod_rewrite: Installed (required for disk enhanced Page Cache and Browser Cache)
mod_setenvif: Installed (required for disk enhanced Page Cache and Browser Cache)
Additional Server Modules

New Relic
PHP version: Not supported: 5.5.9-1ubuntu4. Supported versions are 5.2.x, 5.3.x, 5.4.x.
Operating System: Supported
Web Server: Supported
WordPress Resources

/var/www/.htaccess: OK
/var/www/wp-content: OK
/var/www/wp-content/uploads/2014/05: OK
Fancy permalinks: /%postname%/
WP_CACHE define: Defined (true)
URL rewrite: Enabled
Network mode: No

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