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Pinang; Wallich, Porter, Malacca; Maingay^o. 791, 793. 



Leaves 2^^ in., glabrous above, with scattered stellate hairs beneath ; petiole 

 \ in. Pedicels O-i in. Petals rose (Jack). Fruit ellipsoid, mouth of the caljx en- 

 larged.— Maingay*s example No. 791 has larger flowers than the Wallichian types but 

 appears to agree otherwise: the fruits in Maingay's examples are more than ^ in. 

 long (though not ripe). j * 



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4. D. pallida, Blume in Flora, 1831, 500; branches and panicle mi- 

 nutely puberulous with microscopic stellate often evanescent hairs, panicle some- 

 what spreading not leafy with minute lanceolate caducous bracts, calyx-tube ot 

 the buds \-^ in. minutely puberulous or glabrous, limb (in the bud) nearly 

 entire or very obscurely 4-lobed. Naud, in Ann. Sc, Nat. ser. 3. xv. 77, t. xv. 

 f. 4 ; Miq, FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 528 ; Tnana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviu. b^. 

 D. superba, Naud. I c. ; Miq. I e. D. ovalifolia, Naud. I. c 76 ; Miq. I c.^ oi7* 

 D. astrosticta, Mia. Fl. Ind, Bat.Suppl.S18. Melastoma pallida, /aeZ; 



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Ptnilsg; Wallich. Malay Peninsula; GVej^if A (Kew Distrib. No. 2292). Scr- 

 GAPORE, PiNANG &c. ; Walker, Maingay^o. 792.— Disteib. Malaya Archipelago. 



Leaves attaining 6 by 3^ in., glabrous above, dotted beneath with separate^ steuaie 

 minute hairs ; ] 

 much enlarged. 

 the multiplication of species here by authors. 



)etiole % m. rediceis less than ^ m. Jfruit ovoia, mou^u ui ^"" "^/ 

 —The 4 shorter stamens are sometimes obsolete, which accounts lor 



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intermedia, Blutne in Flora, 1831, 493 ; leaves T)eneath a 



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pamcle stellately tomentose sometimes ferrug 

 pubescent crowned by the enlarged calyx-mi 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 8. xv. 72; Miq, Fl. 

 Tj'am. Linn. Soc. xxviii, 83. Mel 



PiNANG and Singapore; Wallich. 

 2287), Heifer (Kew Distrib. No. 2286).— Distrib. Malay Archipelago. 



Leaves 3 in.; petiole J in< Nodes oi panicle often much thickened, 

 rather larger than in the two following species. 



a D. celebica, J?/w/«e Mas. Bot. i. 3G; leaves ^®^®^*^ ^^^. ffi^j 

 nifous-stellate tomentose, fniit less than \ in. broad minutely P^*^^*^^^ . 53O; 

 calyx-limb caducous leaving only a scar. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1. P*-^ ^^^^ 

 Triana in Trans. Linn, Soc. xxviii. 83. D. microcarpa, Naud. in Ann. ^vi^^ 

 ser. 3. XV. 72 ; Miq. I. c. 523. D. bancana, Miq. I c 529. Melastoma i» 

 Wall Cat. 4050; ? Jack in Tram. Linn. Soc. xiv. 13. M. rubiginosum, 

 Cat. 4052 J partly. 



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LACCA ; ilfaiw^a^^ No. 790. Singapore; T. Anderson. 



Leaves 3 in. ; petiole i in. Nodes of pawicie often much thickened, 

 tinct from the preceding species. 



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