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esse, dum laterales tetramerı sunt. — M. crassifoliae Bl. Wip. ]. c. 7. mag- 
nopere affınıs. 
Fruticulus; rami teretes verrucosi nodoso - articulati; folia oppo- 
sita sessilia oblonga aut ovato-oblonga acuminata aut acuta, basi 
cordata et inde caulem amplectentia, triplinervia, nervo medio basi 
erasso rubro, supra basin (0,2 poll. altit.) nervos binos laterales emit- 
tente, carnosa glaberrima supra opaca atroviridia, subtus pallidiora 
sublueida, integerrima, margine subrevoluta; inflorescentia lateralis 
aut axillaris solitaria, bina aut terna, umbeHata aut umbellato -race- 
mosa; pedunculus communis cinnabarinus 0,7 — 1,0 poll. longus, basi 
braeteolis biuis ovato-lanceolatis rubro- viridibus 0,1—0,25 poll. lon- 
gis praeditus; umbella 5-radiata, involucrum tetraphyllum una®*ftn 
pedicellis calyeibusque einnabarinum; faliola ovata acuta; radü late”. 
rales 4- aut 1-flori ad basin calyeis 2-braceteati, auf 3-chotomi ad 
basin pedicellorum bracteolis minutis ovafis acutis adpressis donati; 
radius centralis aut 1 —3-florus aut iterum 3-chotomus, hine inde 
radiis secundariis denuo trichotomis; calyx subglobosus aut potius ur- 
ceolatus, Jimbus ulira germen productus persistens truncatus, tuber- 
eulis 4— 5 dentiformibus iminutissimis albido - coloratis notatus (in 
praefloratione 4--5-dentatug) glaberrimus; torus membraniformis al- 
bidus petala et stainina gerens; petala 4—5 contorta erecta obovata 
albido - diapbana glaberrima lucida exserfa: stamina S— 10 aequalid; --, 
filamenta complanata replicato -inflexa et per primam anthesin; an- 
therae inde primo pendulae dein erectae basi aftenuatae apice roseo- 
Violaceae obtusae aut subrotundatae (obovatae) poro unico dehiscen- 
tes; germen globosum basi ultra medium calyei adnatum, vertice 
glabrum 4 -— 5-loculatum; stylus filiformis staminum longitudine;, 
sigma simplex punetiforme. — Nomen sundense: Harendong men- 
yando (Melastoma lorauthaceum aut petius parasiticum). 
Kihessia azures DeC. 4 1m Hut 4 
Ouoad Gen. cf. Endl. Gen. 6265., sed antherae haud oratae sed sagittato- 
Cordatae flavae. 
Oxoud spec. cf. DeC. Prdr. III. 196. 1. Bydr. nat. wet. VI. 265. (Mela- 
stoma BI. Bydr. 1079.). Addenda et emendanda haecce: 
Rami teretes einerascentes, summi virides alato-tefragoni, alis 
versus apicem ramulorum rubentibus; folia ovato- aut ovali - oblonga 
basi hand attenuata sed rotundata hinc inde et subcordata, apice in 
cumen yix pollicare producta, cum hoc 3,5--4,0 poll. in adultis 
longa (juniora ad apicem ramulorum azureo -violacea 1,2 poll. longa, 
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