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MELASTOMA malabathrica. 
‚Cinnamon-leaved Melastoma or Black-Strawberry- Tree. 
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DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. MELASTOMACEX. Jussieu gen. 328. Div. I. Brown bot. of 
Congo. 15. Germen inferum. 
MELASTOMA. Supra vol. 5. fol. 363. 
Div. Foliis 5-nerviis. 
M. malabathrica, squamulato-scabra, foliis elliptico-lanceolatis hispidis 5- 
nerviis, utrinque viridibus, corymbis 3-pluri-floris (flore nunc abortü solita- 
rio): calyce squamuloso-sericeo : antheris basi sagittato-bidentatis, alter- 
norum majorum loculis receptaculo stipitatim elongato plurimüm brevi- 
oribus. Don MSS. 
Melastoma malabathrica. Linn. flor. zeyl. 171; (fide exemplaris archetypi 
Herbar. Hermann.) Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 559. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 7. 
Gertn. sem. 2. 203. f. 126. Lamarck encyc. 4. 36. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 
592. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 46; ( excluso Botan. Magaz. 529.) Smith in 
Rees’s cyclop. in loco. 
Melastoma quinquenervia hirta major, capitulis sericeis villosis. Burm. 
zeyl. 155. t. 73; (benè.) 
Kadali. Rheede malab. 4. 87. t. 42. 
Fragrarius niger. Rumph. amb. 4. 137. t. 72. 
Frutex 2-3-pedalis, squamulis appressis minutis rigidis lanceolato-cuspi- 
datis denticulato-ciliatis primd margaritaceo-nitentibus indé spadiceo-opa- 
candis scaber, numerose ramosus ramis axillaribus decussato-oppositis, 
adscendentibus, sub4gonis, foliosis. Fol. opposita, elliptico-lanceolata, in- 
tegra, 5-nervia, opaciüs virentia, mucronulata, utrinque attenuata, setulis 
appressis aspera ciliataque ; nervi subtüs varicosi petiolusque squamulati : pet. 
olio multotiès brevior fimbriá strigosä intermedia per paria connexi. Co- 
rymbi terminales, subsessiles, 3-pluri-flori (nunc flore abortü solitario): flores 
Pallidè rosei, grandiusculi: pedicelli uniflori semunciales teretes squamulati, 
primo bracteis 2 gemmaceis caducis cum flore nascente simul inclusi, indè nudi. 
Cal. tubuloso-5-fidus squamulato-hispidus, sericeo-splendens ; tubo urceolato- 
cylindrico longiore limbo subpersistente, segmentis oblongo-acuminatis hirsu- 
tits apiculatis intús glabris squamulä lineari-subulatá breviore interstinctis. 
Petala latè obovata, integra, contigua, venosa. Stam. 10, alterne breviora ; 
fil. Zutescentia, ligulato-linearia, glabra; anth. lineari-oblonge, breve ro- 
strate, inferne arctato-flexe, basi sagittato-dentate: alterne majores, ro- 
ser, stipitate (ob loculos receptaculo in stipitem roseum cum basi flexá 
luteá producto plurimim breviores); cæteræ lutescentes, sessiles ( ob loculos 
receptaculo æquales J: Stylus rubescens, puncto stigmatoso obtuso viridi prut- 
noso terminatus. Germ. ovato-rotundum, fundo calycis reconditum, apice 
hirsutum. Caps. ovata, baccata, rimis 5 supernè dehiscens; placente azi 
adnate, carnose, in pulpam atrosanguineam loculos implentem resolvende : 
sem. parva, reniformi-globosa, numerosa. Don MSS. 
* MEgLasTOMA; a name composed by John Burmann, 
of uc, black, and coug, mouth; being synonymous with 
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