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MELASTOMACE^E. XXXVIIT. Melastoma. 



Melastoma. Shrub 3 to 6 feet. 



.) 



branches, petioles, and under side of leaves rough on the nerves, 

 from little scales ; leaves elliptic or ovate-oblong, acute at both 



branches scaly; leaves lanceolate, acute, 8-nerved, pilose on ends or obtuse at the base, quite entire, 3-nerved, besides 2 little 

 both surfaces ; flowers usually 3 together ; calyx densely clothed marginal nervules, scabrous from strigge above, but clothed with 



silky pubescence beneath; flowers 7-11 or more, disposed in a 

 corymbose panicle ; calyx covered with adpressed, scale-like 

 strigse : having short, triangular, ovate, acute segments ; each of 

 the alternate stamens has its connective elongated. Tj . S. 



with scales. Fj • S. Native of the East Indies and the Straits 

 of Sunda. Very like the preceding and following species, and 

 probably only a variety of one or the other ; from the follow- 

 ing it differs in the leaves being longer and narrower, 3-nerved, 



and more rough. 



Allied Melastoma. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



4 M. Malaba'thricum (Lin. spec. p. 559.) shrubby ; branches 

 tetragonal, rough from strigse ; leaves elliptic-oblong, obtuse at 

 the base, acute at the apex, quite entire, green on both sur- 

 faces, and scabrous from strigae ; corymbs 1-5-flowered; calyx segments of the calyx bluntish. 



Native of Java and Sumatra in bushy places. M. Malabathri* 

 cum. Jack, in Lin. trans. 14. p. 4. Blum, bijdr. p. 1070. 

 Rumph. amb. 4. t. 72. Flowers purple. 



Vat. (i ; scales of the calyx spreading. 



Var. y ; leaves on short petioles ; flowers smaller, white ; 



clothed with adpressed strigose scales : with ovate, acute lobes ; 

 alternate stamens barren, according to Blume ; connectives of 



Many-JloweTed Melastoma 



Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



the anthers short or very 



10 M. Tidore'nse (Blum. 1. c. p. 482.) branches, petioles, 



long. 



b . S. Native of the East and nerves on the under surface of the leaves rough from scaly 



Indies; frequent in the Indian Archipelago. — Rheed. mal. 4. t. strigae; leaves ovate-oblong, acuminated, rounded at the base 



42. — Rumph. amb. 4. t. 72. Flowers large, purple. 



Malabar Melastom 



M 



Fl. Ju. Aug. 



Clt. 1793. Sh. 6 to 8 ft. 



branches terete, or obscurely tetragonal ; leaves ovate, 5-nerved, 



acute at both ends, villous ; flowers corymbose, terminal, few ; of the Moluccas, on the top of Mount Tidor. 



or obtuse, denticulated, rough from strigae above, but very hairy 

 beneath, 5-nerved; flowers subcorymbose, terminal; calyx beset 

 with adpressed bristles : with broad, subulate segments ; each 

 alternate stamen has its connective elongated. ^2 . S. Native 



M. Malabath- 



bracteas small ; calyx scabrous from long, erect pili, with linear 

 deciduous segments ; fruit 5-celled. Tj . S. Native of Sumatra 

 and Java. Petals large, purple. Pre 

 Malahathricum^ according to Blume, bijc 

 Erect Melastoma. Shrub 6 to 8 feet. 



ricum, Reinwd. ined. Flowers purple. 

 Tidor Melastoma. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 

 M. 11 M. Roye'nii (Blum. 1. c. p. 483.) branches, petioles, and 



nerves of leaves on the under surface, rough from little scales ; 

 leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminated at both ends or 



6 M. ca'ndidum (D. Don, in mem. soc. wern. 4. p. 228.) bluntish at the base, slightly denticulated, 3-nerved, as well as 

 shrubby; branches scaly ; leaves oval, acute, 7-nerved, densely having 2 marginal, hardly distinct nervules, rough from^ strigae; 

 clothed with silky white down on both surfaces ; calyxes covered 

 with 



soft, white, linear-elongated, adpressed scales. Tj . S. 

 Native of China and the Straits of Sunda. Flowers purple. 



White Mel 



7 M. MACF 



flowers 5-7, disposed in a terminal kind of corymb; calyx beset 

 with scale-like adpressed strigae: having short, broad- subulate seg* 

 ments ; each alternate stamen has its connective elongated. ^ . S. 



Fl. May, Ju. Clt. 1822. Sh. 4 to 6 ft. Nativeof Ceylon.— Burm. thes. 2. p. 154. t. 72, Flowers purple 



in mem. soc. wern. 4. p. 289.) 

 shrubby ; branches nearly te- 

 rete, clothed with adpressed stiff* 

 hairs, as well as the petioles ; 



FIG. 111. 



as 



leaves oval-oblong, acuminated, 

 5-nerved, quite entire, green on 

 both surfaces, scabrous from 

 scattered bristles above, as well 

 as on the nerves beneath, and be- 

 tween them puberulous ; flowers 

 terminal, usually solitary ; calyx 

 roundish, densely clothed with 

 long stiff* hairs ; stamens alter- 

 nately dissimilar. Tj . G. Na- 

 tive of China. Melastoma Ma- 



labathricum, Sims, bot. mag. t. 



529. - - 



purple. 



Royen's Melastoma. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. . 



12 M. a'sperum (Blume, bijdr. p. 1076. but not of Lm.) 

 branches, petioles, and nerves of leaves on the under s"™^*^' 

 rough from little scales ; leaves ovate-oblong, acuminated, ob- 

 tuse at the base, quite entire, sub-5-nerved, rough from stngae ; 



flowers 3-7, in a terminal fascicle ; calyx beset with adpressed, 



stamens 



linear elongated segments; 



M. Malabathricum^ 



scale-like strigae, with 



equal, each with an elongated connective 



Java, in woods on the higher mountains. **- . 



flore albo, Reinwd. ined. Flowers white. Stamens all equal 



and fertile. 



Rough Melastoma. 



._„^ Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



13 M. sYLVA^TicuM (Blum. bijdr. p. 1077.) ^"^^^^^^X^S. 

 tioles, and nerves of leaves on the under surface, rough iro 



little scales; leaves elliptic-oblong, acuminated, acute a 

 base, quite entire, 5-nerved, scabrous ; flowers 3-5, m ter 

 fascicles; calyx beset with scale-like strigse : with hnear-e 

 D.Don, in bot. reg. t. 672. Flowers large, reddish gated segments ; stamens equal, each having a s^^rt connec • 



F? . S. Native of Java, where it is called Harendong-u^^^^' 



4 to 6 feet. 



'fruited Melastoma. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1793. Sh. Flowers whitish. Stamens 10, yellowish. ^ ^ ^^ 



^ in bot. ^eit. 428.) stenisje- 



) shrubby ; branches terete, cumbent, rooting ; leaves smaller ; flowers termmal, »o 



Var. /3, unrfldrum (Blum. 1. c 



very rough from red bristles ; leaves on short petioles, ovate- Tj . S. Native of Java, in the province of Bantam, 

 lanceolate, acuminated, 5-nerved, green above and shining, but Wood Melastoma. Shrub 4 to 6 feet, 

 red at the nerves beneath and on the petioles ; flowers ievf, ter- 

 minal ; calyx covered with very long incurved bristles; petals . ..v..,^o w.. ...^ „.,.,.. o^x — - , „ac« 



6, large. Ij . S. Native of the Straits of Sunda. Sims, bot. jwith chaffy bristles ; leaves ovate-oblong, acuminated, f^" j,. 



14 M. seti'gerum (Blum, bijdr. p. 1077.) ^'^*"*^\^.\?!'llsct 



" the leaves, tbicKij 



and nerves on the under surface of the 



ded 



mag. 2241. Flowers large, purple. Very like M. macro- at the base, 5 nerved, bristly above, roughish and hairy o 



cdrpum. - - 



iloody-ye'med Melastoma. 

 4 to 6 feet. 



Fl. Sept. Oct. Clt. 1818. Sh. 



I?.S. 



(Blume, in bot. zeit. 1813. no. 28.) 



Native of Java, on Mount Salak, g^j p©. 



Far. /3, angmto-hractealum (Blum, in hot. zeit. ^^^^ . 

 28.) leaves ovate-oblong, rounded at the base, nearly ' ^^x 

 flowers in terminal corymbs ; bracteas linear, acuminaie , 



