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LX. MELASTOMACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 



[Melastoma 



subpatent, with short often soft hairs between the nerves beneath, bracts lanceo- 

 late or lanceolate-obovate much smaller than the buds and early deciduous^ 

 scalj hairs on the calyx-tube flat lanceolate, calyx-teeth triangular acute gla- 

 brous within shorter than the tube and often (O. brachyodoriy Naud.) very short 

 Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat ser. 3. xiii. 287 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. vt. i. 502, 

 M. malahathricum, Jack in Trans. Linn. Soc, xix. p. 4, loithjig, ; Benth. FL 

 Austral, iii. 292, partly. M. brachyodon^ 



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Malaya 



Singapore; Sir E. Schomburgk, T. Anderson. —J)i^tbxb. Throughout 



abundant to North Australia. , 



Only differs from M. malabaihricumm the smaller bracts and shorter calyx-teeth; 



and is united with it bv Mr. Bentham. 



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3. M. normale, Dm Prodr. 220 ; tranches densely shaggy, leaves with 

 short patent hairs ahove and puhescent or villous heneath, calyx-teeth long lan- 

 ceolate hairy within nearly to their base. DC. Prodr. iii. 145 ; Hand. tnAnn. 

 Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xiii. 289; Kurz For. Fl. i. 604. M. Wallichii, DC. Prodr. in. 



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M. napalensis, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 707. 



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NiPAL to Bhotan, alt. 2000-6000 ft. Khasia Mts., alt, 4000 ft., lr( 

 DiSTRiB. Ava, KuTz. 



A large shrub, reaching 20 ft. in the interior Himalaya. Leaves 3-5 in., i^nc^- 

 late; petiole ^ in. Flowers 3-10, clustered ; bracts not large nor endosing tne 

 buds ; petals a brighter more rosy mauve than in M. malahathricum. -^^^^vfi^ ^g 

 M. malabathricum or rather larger. —ilf. velutinum Seem, of Polynesia does not belong 

 here. 



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imbrlcatnm. Wall. Cat. 4047 : stem densely clothed with 



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pressed, ovate obtuse scales, leaves beneath with very small scabrous r 

 on the calyx-tube flat ovate acute, calyx-teeth ovate acuminate hi 

 half-way down^ fruit ovoid the margin at the top somewhat dilated. 

 Tran^. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 60, but thesyn. M. fasciculare Nattd. is doubuiu.. . 



\ East Bengal; GHffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2242). Penang, WalUch ] 1^^^. 



EiM, Relfer (Kew Distrib. No. 2243). . 'fniyMk 



Apparently very large. Leaves 8 in., broad-elliptic, acute; petiole 2 in. i!}Owm 



in terminal clusters of about 12; bracts not large. Fruit \-l in., ovoid. - v ,; 



** Hairs on the calyx-tube long, at their base spreading, then ascending ^ 

 patent. 



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Mag. t. 2241 ; stem with 



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long harsh patent hairs, leaves glabrous above scabrous beneath on the ^^^ i ^^ 

 minutely hau-y between them or nearly glabrous, calyx-teeth Hnear-toc^ 

 DC. Prodr. iii. 145 ; Dm in Mem. Wem. Soc. iv. 289 ; Miq. FL ^«^- fj^ 

 pt. i. 504 ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xiii. 281. M. decemfidum, c/^ 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 6 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 406 ; Wall Cat. 4042 ; X*^- ^' 

 iii. 146 ; Naud. I. c. 282 ; Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 75. 



Penang, Singapore and Malacca; Wallich, Cuming, Griffith, Matngag. 

 Malaya and South China. i (jjftefl 



Leaves 4-5 in., narrowly lanceolate; petiole J-f in. Flowers 1-4, ^^^^}f^*fruU 

 very large, rose-purple. Bristles on the calyx-ttcbe often |-J in., hair-pc'" 

 i in. wide and upwards. . , .'^^ oB 



Var. TnoUe, Wall. Cat. 4046 ; leaves 6 by 2^ in. with scattered villous n .^ 

 both surfaces. M. crinitum. Na^cd. I.e. 280. 



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