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tomentose (and often "bristly or stellate-tairy) ; lobes 4, persistent, retals 4, 

 obovate. Stamens 8, unequal ; anthers elongate, opening by a single pore ; con- 

 nective of the longer anthers carrying in front two long bristles and behind 

 often one or two spurs or several twisted bristles. Ovary at the base (or half 

 its height) adnate to the calyx, 4-celled, densely hairy at the apex ; style 

 filiform; ovules numerous, placentas axile. -Se;vy ellipsoid, crowned by the 

 calyx-limb. Seeds numerous, oblong-ellipsoid, with glandular scarcely raised 

 dots, raphe slightly excurrent along the whole length of one side, — ^Distrib. 

 Species 10, extending from ihe southern half of the Transgangetic Peninsula to 

 Borneo and the Philippines. 



1. M. nemorosa, Blume in Fl<yra, 1831, 505 ; branches rusty closely 

 pubescent subtomentose, calyx-tube rustj^ closely pubescent stellate-tomentose 

 sometimes scabrous subtuberculate, teeth ovate-lanceolate acuminate. Nam, 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xv. 279 ; Miq. FL hid. Bat. i. pt. i. 632 ; Tiiana m 

 Trails. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 82. M. affinis, Korth. in Verh. Nat, Gesch. Sot. 241, 

 t. 60; Miq. I. c. 533, Melastoma nemorosum. Jack in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 8; 

 DC. Prodr. iii, 149 : Wall. Cat. 4043. 



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PiNANG ; Wallich, SchornburgTc^ PhUlips. 

 Borneo, Sumatra. ■ ..^ 



Leaves 3-4 in., shining, minutely puberulous above, rufous-stellate beneath ; petiole 

 \ in, Pedmicle 1-2 in. ; pedicels ^-| in. Connectire of the longer anthers at the base 

 with two long bristles in front and several short twisted hairs behind. :;.., 



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2. M. zeylanlca, Blume in Flora, 1831, 505 ; branches rusty closely 

 pubescent or subtomentose and with scattered spreading long bristles, calyx- 

 tube rufous-stellate tomentose and with spreading bristles \ in., teeth triangular- 

 lanceolate. Blume Bumph. t, 5 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 82. 3i- 

 echinukta, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xv, 280 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. I P*- ^' 

 534. Melastoma rhodocamum. IVall. Cat d04.n 





Malacca 

 Jaya to the Philippines. 



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^ Leaves 3-4 in., shining above, rufous-stellate beneath ; petiole ^-i in. Pedum 

 1 in., pedicels ^-^^ in. Connective of the longer anthers at the base with two long 



bristles in front and several short twisted hairs behind. 



Var. sicbglabrafa; leaves beneath glabrous except the nerves 

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3. M. .reticulata, Blume Mm. Bat. i. 34 ; brandies rusty tomenWe 

 and with spreading scattefTed long biistles, calvx-tube rufous-stellate ^'''^^"5^. 

 and with spreading bristles \ in. from clustered tubercular bases, teeth sno 

 triangular in the bud ovate rounded reflexed after flower'"" tnnientose witw ■ 

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Leaves 2-3|in., shining impressed-reticulate above, with scattered stellate p 

 ce beneath r petiole ^ in. Peduncles ^1 in., chiefly from the upper axilB tonn^^c^ 

 aasi-termmal panicle; pedicels J in. Connective of the longer a7Uhers at tf^e 



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terminal panicle; pedicels J in. Connective of the longer t(,«w.^-- "- »r-„J i» 

 wim two long bii sties in front; anthers very long, sigmoid.— M. olig*intha, i>«« • ^^ 

 ^nn. Sc. Aai. ter. 3. xv. 300 ; Miq. Fl. hid. Bat. i. pt. i. 634 is said by Tmna 19 



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