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. rosea, Gaud, in Freyc, Voy.Bot. 484, t. 106; branches round, 



leaves oboTate-oblong 3-nerv^ed the two lateral nen*es near the margin, flowers 



4-merous. Naud. in Ann, Sc, Nat. ser. 3. xv. 286 ; Triana in Trans^ Linn. Soc. 

 xxviii. 85, 



Malacca, Mount Ophir; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2282), Maingay'So. 796.— 

 DiSTRiB. Marianne Islands. 



Leaves 1^ in.; petiole J in. Cymes 3-10-flowered. Flowers large. Anthers 

 ihortly produced at the base, connective having a short spur. Berry nearly \ in. 

 broad, ovoid. Seeds falcate-ellipsoid, raphe not excurrent. 



2. nx. macrooarpa, Blume Rumph. i. 14, t. 2 ; branches rounds leaves 



ODovate-oblong acute 3-nerved, flowers 5-merous, Naud. in Ann, Sc. Nat. 

 ser. 3. XV. 293 ; Miq, FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 644 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxviii. 86. 



Malacca 



Distrib. Malay Archipelago. 



Leaves 2^-.iin. ; petiole 4-| in. Cyme 3-10-flowered. i^ow^r^ large. Calyx- 



tt Leaves opposite^ 



3. UK. Rasseltii, Blume in Flora 1831, p, 513 ; branches round verru- 

 ^v!f * ^^^^es lanceolate, flowers 4-merous, fruit ovoid, calyx-rim not produced far 

 above the fruit, seeds obovoid smooth slightly flattened on the side of the raphe 

 yhich is not produced. Miq. FL Jnd. Bat. i. pt. i. 542. M. crassifolia, Triana 

 ^ Tram. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 86y partly. Melastoma laurifolium, Wall. Cat. 4084. 



Sinoapore; WaJlich. Malacca; Maingay^o. 797.— Distbib. Java, Sumatra. 



; Leaves 4-7 in., 3-nerved, an obscure pair of nerves very near the margin some- 



^mes added, very acuminate, narrowed at the base in the Indian examples (less so in 



-liiumefi anM.««+:. ™„.* x _..:.i_ 1 1 :« Anthers at the base distinctly but 



/VwiY ^ in. diam. — Reduced to M. 



<^sifolia by Triana ; but, as Bhimo observes, the leaves are much longer, with 

 snorter petioles, and the flowers 4-merous. The true M. crassifolia, Blume, has not 

 been found in British India. 



edl f.^-. ^^^^^^^'«; cymes lateral on short peduncles but greatly developed repeat- 

 f^v divided with opposite branches at right angles and sometimes 40 flowers on one 

 cyme.-^]Vrount Ophir, Malacca; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2282). 



^iume s authentic specimen) ; petiole ^-\ in. 

 snortly produced, spur of the connective short. 



4. 



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ic or lanceolate, flowers 4-merous, fruit ovoid, calyx- 



™i,very short, seed obovoid smooth slightly flattened on the side of the rafhe 

 Y?;cn IS xiot T^rnri^i^ail TVT^.y^ A, J«« .<?/> AW Rfir. 3. XV. 288. t. 13, ficr. 1 : 





- -- not producea. Naud. in Aiin. Sc. NaL ser. 3. xt. 288, t. 13, fig. 1 ; 

 («•?• Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 



tlirophylla, . ^ 



Melastoma rubicunda, Jack in" Trans. Linn. Soc. liv. 18; DC. F>odi\ 



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pt. i. 539; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 80. 

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