56. MELASTOMACIH. 299 



China : without locality (Millett ! Fortune, 44 !) ; Kiangsi : 

 Kiukiang (Forbes I); Formosa (WilfordX); Hupeh : Ichang 

 (A. Henry !) ; Kwangtung : Pakhoi (Playfair !) ; Hongkong 

 (Champion ! Wright !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



"Western Himalayas to Japan, the Malay archipelago and 

 North Australia. 



2. Osbeckia crinita, Benth. ; Clarke in Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 

 p. 517. 



Osbeckia stellata (5, DC. Prodr. iii. p. 142. 



Osbeckia stellata, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 3 me serie, xiv. p. 72 ; Hance 

 in Journ. Bot. 1878, p. 107. 



Kwangtung: Lofaushan (Ford !), North river (Sampson, lib. 

 Haneel). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Eastern India and Malaya. 



The Chinese plant is this, rather than 0. stellata, if they are 

 really distinct species. Clarke, loc. cit., accepts Hance's deter- 

 mination, but almost every botanist who has dealt with the forms 

 has taken a different view of the limits of the species, and the 

 two names have been interchanged. 



1. Otanthera Fordii, Hance in Journ. Bot. 1881, p. 47. 

 Hongkong (Fordl). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



1. Melastoma candidum, Don in Mem. Wern. Soc. iv. p. 288 ; 

 DC. Prodr. iii. p. 145; Benth. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 

 p. 116 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. p. 60. 



Melastoma macrocarpum, Don in Mem. Wern. Soc. iv. p. 289 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Hongk. p. 113. 



Melastoma malabathricum, Bot. Mag. t. 529, excl. syn. fide Don, loc. 

 cit., et Bot. Reg. sub t. 6/2; Hook, et Am. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 186, non 

 Linn. 



Melastoma calycinum, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. i. p. 485 ; 

 Walp. Rep. ii. p. 133. 



Melastoma Nobotan, Blume in Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. i. p. 54 ? 



CniNA: without locality (Fortune, 64!); Formosa: Tamsui 

 (Hancock ! Oldham, 117!), north-west (Perry I); Kwangtung : 

 Lofaushan (Ford !), Pakhoi (Playfair !), Macao, &c. ( Qaudichaud ! 

 Vachell !) ; Hongkong (JJrquhart ! Champion ! Hinds ! Wright !) ; 

 Hainan (Sivinhoe !) ; Luchfj Abchipelago (Wright !). Mus. 

 Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



This has been confused with the common Indian and North- 

 Australian M. malabathricum,ivom which, however, it is sufficiently 



