MELASTOMACE^. XXXVIII. Melastoma. 



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beset with adpressed scale-like strigae, with the segments broad- 

 subulate. Tj , S. Native of Java, on the mountains called 

 Megamendung in woods. 



Var. y, lato-hracteatum (Blum. 1. c.) leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 obtuse at the base, 3-nerved ; flowers in terminal bundles ; 

 bracteas oval, acuminated, fringed. T2 . S. Native along with 



21 M. 



the preceding var. at Laga. 



Bristle -hearing Melastoma. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



15 M. LANUGiNosuM (Blum. bijdr. p. 1077.) branches, pe- 

 tioles, and nerves of leaves on the under surface clothed with 

 chaffy bristles ; leaves ovate, or oblong-ovate, acute, rather nectives are hardly evident, all fertile ; berry roundish, 5-celled. 



CYANoiDES (Smith, in Rees. cycl. vol. 23.) leaves 

 ovate, acute, entire, 5-nerved, beset with yellowish bristles ; ra- 

 cemes terminal, forked ; calyx densely clothed with bristles ; 

 bracteas oval, fringed. Tj . S. Native of Amboyna. Rumph. 

 amb. 4. t. 71. — Rheed. mal. 4. t. 43. ex Smith. 



Cyanus-like Melastoma. Shrub 3 to 6 feet. 



22 M. dodeca'ndrum (Lour. coch. p. 274.) shrubby ; leaves 

 ovate, quite entire, glabrous, 5-nerved ; peduncles few-flowered, 

 terminal ; flowers dodecandrous, rose-coloured ; larger stamens 

 have their connectives elongated, in the smaller ones the con- 



cordate at the base or roundish, quite entire, 5-nerved, clothed 

 with yellowish villi on both surfaces, but when in a young state 



flowers 



Tj . G. Native of Cochin-china and China, about Canton. M. 



woolly ; 



few. 



rosea, Poir. diet, suppl. 3. p. 644. Flowers red. 

 Dodecandrous Melastoma. Shrub 1 foot. 

 23 M. obvolu'tum (Jack, in Lin. trans. 14. p. 3.) shrubby; 

 ^ . S. branches tetragonal, scaly ; leaves ovate, 5-nerved, clothed with 

 Native of Java, in the province of Tjanjor, near Tjibidoy. adpressed pili ; flowers few, in terminal panicles ; bracteas ovate, 



in terminal fascicles ; calyx beset with 

 adpressed scale-like bristles, with the segments broad-subulate ; 

 each alternate stamen has its connective 



elongated. 



Flowers purple ? 



Wtolly Melastoma. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



\6 M. CELE'BicuM(BIum. in bot. zeit. 1831.no. 28.) branches, 

 petioles, and nerves of the leaves on the under surface covered 



with adpressed scales ; leaves ovate-oblong, acuminated, rounded purple. 



involving the calyx ; calyx covered with stellate pili ; anthers 

 of longer stamens furnished with 2 appendages at the base ; 

 ovarium 5-celled. T; . S. Native of Sumatra. Limb 

 of calyx crowned by long scales on the outside. Flowers 



at the base, or obtuse, finely denticulated, 3-nerved, as well as 

 with 2 lateral nervules, bristly above and villous beneath ; 

 flowers in terminal corymbs ; calyx beset with adpressed scale- 

 like strigae, with the segments subulate. Tj . S. Native of 

 Celebes, on Mount Sempa. 



Celebes Melastoma. Shrub 3 to 6 feet. 



17 M. porphy'reum (Zipp. ex Blum. I.e.) branches, petioles, 

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

 leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminated, obtuse at the base, finely 

 denticulated, 3-nerved, as well as having 2 lateral nervules, 

 rather scabrous ; flowers terminal, usually solitary, on short 

 peduncles ; calyx covered with long, incurved, spreading bristles. 

 7 • S. Native o£ the Moluccas. Flowers purple ? 



Porphyry Melastoma. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



18 M. Walli'chii (D. C. prod. 3. p. 146.) branches terete, 

 strigose ; leaves elliptic-oblong, narrowed at the base, acumin- 

 ated at the apex, 5-nerved, villous on both surfaces ; flowers 3 

 together at the tops of the branches ; calycine tube subglobose, 

 covered with scale-like 



Obvolute-c'dlyxed Melastoma. Shrub 2 feet. 



24 M. septemne'rvium (Lour. p. 273.) shrubby; branches 

 terete ; leaves oval-lanceolate, quite entire, 7-nerved, pilose on 

 both surfaces, scabrous, petiolate ; flowers few, terminal, large, 

 purple, decandrous; calyx 5-cleft; petals roundish; stamens 

 brown, refracted, furnished with a long tail each ; berry ovate, 

 hispid, dry, 5-celled. ^ . G. Native of Cochin-china, every 

 where on the less cultivated hills and fields. 



Seven-nerved-leaved Melastoma. 



Flowers purple. 

 Shrub 6 feet. 



25 M. Madagascarie'nsis (D. Don, mem. wern. soc. 4. p. 

 290.) leaves elliptic, 3-nerved, mucronate, acute at the base, 

 beset with stiff* hairs beneath as well as the branches ; flowers 

 panicled ; calyx hispid ; anthers furnished with long connec- 

 tives, each ending in 2 bristles. ^ . S. Native of Madagascar. 



Madagascar Melastoma. Shrub. 



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Species natives of Sierra Leone ^ with dry capsules* 



^ents. Pj . G. 

 lobes of the 



calyx 



ciliated strigae, with 6 deciduous seg- 



Appendages between the 



Each alternate 



Native of Nipaul. 

 small. 



Flowers purple. 



stamen has its connective elongated. 



Wallich's Melastoma. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



19 M. norma'le (D. Don, prod. fl. nep 

 thickly covered with bristly hairs ; leaves elliptic, acute, rounded 

 ^t the base, 5-nerved, beset with bristly hairs above and with 

 tomentum beneath ; flowers 3 together at the tops of the 

 branches ; calyx globose, covered with narrow, hoary, ciliated 

 Mpressed scales, the lobes deciduous. \> . G. Native of 



2Q M. cYMosuM (D. C. prod. 3. p. 147.) stem branched, 

 bluntly tetragonal, warted, pubescent ; leaves cordate, acumin- 

 ated, petiolate, serrulated, 7-nerved ; flowers cymose ; calyx 

 campanulate : with its teeth triangular, and one-half shorter than 

 the tube ; petals obovate, somewhat laterally acuminated, pur- 

 220.) branches pie or red ; genitals deflexed ; larger stamens falcate, purple, 



T?. G. 



Appendages between the lobes of the calyx small. 



Each alternate stamen has its connective 



scales, 

 Nipaul, 



Flowers pale red'. 



elongated. Habit of M. Malabdthricum. 



Normal Melastoma. Shrub 3 to G feet. 



20 M. dece'mfidum (Roxb. hort. beng. p. 90. ex Jack, in 

 l^'n- trans. 114. p. 6.) shrubby, decandrous ; branches terete, 

 beset with scattered, scale-like strigae; leaves ovate-lanceolate, 



each furnished with a prominent connective, which is broadish 

 at the base and somewhat truncatcly emarginate at the apex ; 

 style filiform; capsule 5-celled, 5-valved. fj. S. Native of 

 Sierra Leone. Vent. hort. malm. t. 14. Lois. herb. amat. 

 t. 135. ex Balb. Sims, bot. mag. 984. Flowers purple. 

 Cyrnose'Rowered Melastoma. Shrub 2 feet. 



27 M. plum68Um (D. Don, 1. c.) herbaceous, erect; stem 

 branched; branches quadrangular; leaves roundish-ovate, en- 

 tire, acute, S-nerved, pilose on both surfaces as well as the 

 branches ; flowers scattered, solitary, on the tops of the branches 

 and branchlets ; calyx beset with scales, which are stellately 

 plumose at the apex. 0. S. Native of Sierra Leone, on the 



attenuated, 5-nerved, hardly spinulose on the margins ; flowers mountains, particularly in the coffee plantations near the Go- 

 terminah usually solitarv. on short oedicels : calvx 5-cleft. echi- vernor*s house. Osbcckia rotundif oha. Smith, in Rees' cycl. 



terminal, usually solitary, on short pedicels ; calyx 5-cleft, echi- 



nated, from soft stretched bristles; anthers of the longer sta- toI. 25. 



Plumose scdihd Melastoma. 



PI. I foot. 



28 M. involucra'tum (D. Don, I.e. but not of Desr. nor 



n^ens apiculated at the base. T; . S. Native of Pulo-Penang. 



Flowers purple. Allied to M, Malabdthricum, but the flowers .- . . ir -i- 



are larger and more beautiful. The appendages between the Schrank, nor Mart.) the whole plant beset with stiff pjli ; stems 



lobes of the calyx large. 



Ten-cU/i^calyxed Melastoma. Shrub 3 to 4 feet. 



and branches red ; branches diffuse ; leaves elliptic, or ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute, obsoletely 5-nervcd, quite entire ; flowtrs faw 



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