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Sarcopyramis .] lx. melastomace^. (C. B. Clarke.) 



opening by 4 valyes at the top. Seeds numerous, obovoid, covered with pro- 

 minent raised points, raphe not excurrent. 



1. S. nepalensis, TFall. Tent. Fl Kep. t. 23; Cat. 4088; Benn. PL 



Jav, Rar. 214. S. lauceolata, Wall. Cat. 6290 ; Benn. I c. ; Kurz in Joum. As. 

 Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 77. S. grandiflora, Gnf. Notul. iv. 678 ; Ic. PI. Asiat. i. 639, 



NrpAL and Sikkim, alt. 4000-9000 ft. ; plentiful. Khasia Mts., alt. 4000-6000 ft, ; 

 plentiful. Burma and Maiay Pkninsuxa ; Griffith, Kurz. ^ 



Stem often 2-6 in., succulent, -weak, sometimes 18 iji. with thick •woody branches. 



Leaves 2-4 in., from ovate to lanceolate, long-acuminate ; petiole J-1 in. Calyx-tvbe 



glabrous, sometimes with minute bundles of hairs between the bases of the teeth. 



'Petals scarcely \ in. Fruit about \ in., quadrangular, mouth of the calyx-tube very wide. 



—-Triana reduces (m Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 77, 78) to this species Sonerila Navdi- 



niana Miq. Fl. Ltd, Bat. i. pt. i. p. 565 with syn. But Miquel removed this ^lant 



from Sarcopyramis because it had 6 stamens: there is no authentic specimen of it at 

 Kew. 



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, Blame. 



^ Herbaceous small shrubs with very short stems. Leaves opposite (or the ter- 

 minal leaf solitary), large, petioled, orbicular, cordate, 7-9-nerved. Flotvers in 

 a peduncled dense head, purple. Calyx-tube campamilate, glabrous or with long 

 bnstles near the top, teeth 4 (rarely 3), acute, long-setose. Petals 4 (rarely 3), 

 ovate, acute, glabrous. Stamens 8 (rarely 6), equal ; anthers elongate, scarcely 

 produced at the base, connective without appendage. Ovary adnate to the bot- 

 tom of the calyx* tube, 4- (rarely 3-) celled, glabrous at the apex ; style filiform ; 

 ovules very nmnerous, placentas large axile. Cajysule broadly funnel-shaped, 

 opening by 4 valves at the top. Seeds ellipsoid, somewhat obovoid, with glan- 

 dular hardly raised dots, raphe slightly excurrent along one side of the seed its 

 whole leno^th. — ^Distrir. Snecies 2 : one Malavan. one Bomean. 



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1' P. rotundifolia, Blame in Flora, 1831, 507 ; leaves glabrous or 

 puberulo-rfandular benpnth. flower-heads with ovate bracts beneath. Korth. in 



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Malacca ; Griffith, Maingay. ? Tenasserim or Andamaxs, Heifer No. 2266. 



Leaves usually 4-9 in. diam., obtuse or acute, entire, usually red beneath ; petiole 

 2-0 in., with long pendent coarse bristles or nearly glabrous. Bracts to the flower 

 head red, J in, wide and upwards. Calyx-teeth from short-ovate with a mucro to 

 ovate-lanceolate attenuate. Capsule about \ in., fruiting pedicel about ^ in.— Hel- 

 l^rs No. 2266, in fruit, shows the capsule trigonous with smooth almost convex faces : 

 the other typical examples show the fruit 6-8-ribbed, the ribs prominent : in all these 

 the fruit is over-ripe and the wall partly broken down. Helfer^s plant may bo a 

 J>ew species or even a new ffenus ; but the leaves are exceedingly like the well-marked 

 ^^^y^B of Phyllagathis, 



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 Twinins- shrubs : bmnches round, thickened at the nodes. Leaves opposite. 



J^^^PetioTed, coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, cordate at the base, ^^^. 

 "le base besides two submar^iual nerves, entire, tomentose beneath. 



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