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Sliruts, usually twinei^s. Leaver opposite, petioled or nearly sessile, elliptic 

 or oblong-lanceolate, rounded at the base, 3-nerved from the base besides two 

 -submarginal nerves, entire. Flozvers large or small, in terminal sometimes 

 leafy panicles, purple or white, bracts laro^e or small. Calyx-tube campanulate- 

 cylindric, densely stellate-tomentose pubescent or glabrous ; limb obscurely 

 4-lobed, more rarely distinctly 4-toothed, persistent. Petals 4. Stainens 8, un- 

 equal, 4 shorter sometimes wanting, connective of the 4 longer with 2 long 

 bristles in front at the base (in all the Indian speciesV Ovai-y adnate to the 

 calyx, 4-celled, apex glabrous or densely hairy ; style filiform ; ovules very 

 i^any, placentas axile. lie?ry ovoid or elliptic, crowned with the calyx-limb. 

 Seeds ellipsoid, flattened on the side of the raphe. — Disthib. Species 16, ex- 

 tending fix)m Pinang and Malacca throughout Malaya to the Philippines. 



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Anthers very long^ attenuate uptcards. 



1. JD. annulata, IlooJcf. 7ns. ; Trimm in Tram, Linn. Soc. xxviii. 83 ; 

 •branches panicle and leaves beneath with much rufous stellate tomentum, panicle 

 narrow leafy with large bracts to the young flowers, calyx-tube of the buds more 

 than J in. densely woolly-rufous and stellate-hairy, teeth distinctly triangular. 

 Melastoma bracteatum, Wall Cat. 4044, partly. 



Pinaxg; Wallick, Griffith {Kew Distrib. No. 2268). Mount Ophir, Maiacca. 

 Maingay No. 788.— Distrib. Borneo. 



LeavesZ^i^ in., glabrous above or minutely pubescent on the nerves ; petiole J in. 

 Panicle consisting of axillary cymes (exactly resembling that of Marumia reticulata) ; 

 bracts | in., oblong, caducous ; pedicels less than \ in. Fruit (not ripe) ellipsoid, 

 (^alyx-mouth enlarged, teeth somewhat rounded. — The stem of this plant has rings 

 *t the nodes as in Marumia : its natural affinity seems altogether with Marumia 

 reticulata and M. neinorosa : it recedes from M. reticxdata only by the absence of the 

 long bristles on the calyx-tube so common in Martimia; from M, nemorosa it recedes 

 hy the quasi-paniculate inflorescence and the absence of any twisted hairs at the base 

 of the connective other than the two long bristles in front. 



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J^ceous, teeth short triangular in the expanded flower. 



Malacca ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2291) ; Maingay No. 789. Singapore and 

 ■Pixaxg; B'alier. 



Leaves 2i-3i in., glabrous above, with scattered dark-red stellate hairs beneath; 

 petiole l-f fn. "Panicle terminal, pedicels hardly more than | in. Fruit (not ripe) 

 campanulate (seems about to become ovoid), calyx-teeth not then prominent, nor the 

 «iouth enlarged. 



3. B. braoteata, Blume in Flora, 1831,495; branches upwards and 

 panicle with small stellate pubescence, panicle somewhat spreading not leafy, 

 ^ts large oblong longer than the expanding buds, calyx-tube of the buds 

 ^ in. with more or less stellate pubescence limb (in the bud) nearly entire or 

 ^ery obscurely 4-toothed. Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 529 ; Tnana in Tram. 

 J^^nn. Soc. xxviii. 84. D. bmcteosa, Ifaiul in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xv. 76 ; 

 ^^' ^^' '^^^' ^^' i- P*- i- ^^'^^ Melastoma bracteatum, Jack in Trans. Linn. 

 ^w. xiv. 9 ; Wail. Cat. 4044, partly. 



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