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" ■ " Flotvers small, pulveru- 



Cahjx-tuhe campanu- 



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{)etioled, oblong or ovate^ entire, glabrous, 3-nerved, 

 ent, in small terminal panicles having opposite branches. 

 late, subquadrangular ; limb 4-toothed. Petals 4, lanceolate. 

 equal ; anthers oblong, acute, opening by a terminal pore, not produced at the 

 base; connective at the base bearded behind with a tuft of hairs, not spurred. 

 Ovary half-inferior, 4-celled, with a tuft of hairs at the apex ; style ^1™^^ ' 

 ovules very many, placentas axile. Berry small, globose, 4-celled, crowned witn 

 the calyx-limb. Seeds very many, obo void-oblong, smooth. — DlsTKiu. Species 

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1. P. pulverulenta, Blume in Flora, 1831, 521; Korth. Verh.Na. 

 Gesch, BoL t. 65 ; Griff. Notid. iv. 678 ; Miq. Fl Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 553 )2rma 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 89. Melastoma reflexa, Bltc77ie I c. ; Mud. m Ann^ 

 Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xv. 303 ; Triana I c. M. pulverulentum, Jack in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xiv. p. 19 ; Da Prodr. iii. 149 ; Blume Bijd. 1072. M. rubicundum, ./f « 

 I. c. 18} DC. I.e. 148 ; Wall. Cat. 4086. . -'■ 



Maxacca and Singapore ; WaUich, Griffith, Mainffay.—DisTRJB. Through Malaya 



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Leaves 3-4^ by 1-2^ in., narrowed to both ends, 3-nerved with sometimes otner t ^^ 



faint nerves close to the margin ; petiole \-^ in., with two tubercles or ^^^^^^^ \^]^e 



.apex' Panicle 2-3 in. and as much broad, short-peduncled, with °^^°^*'®. ^fv^-^^^ 



divisions, Berry about I in. broad, narrowed beneath the small calyx-limb. ^ 



' distinguishes at^ P. reflexa, a form with white transparent petals havmg a m ^^ 



tooth on each margin, and which occurs creeping on rocks near the seasno ^^^ 



noted by Jack and Griffith, from the typical P. jmlverulenta which ^^^^^7 -^g 



forests, and which has red petals powdered with yellow and a tooth on eacn ^^ 



The distinction between the limb of the petal being toothed or only tumid cann ^^^ 



traced in the dried specimens : and Blume's subsidiary distinctions regarding .^^^ 



texture of the leaves and the presence or absence of the extra pair of ®J^^^ 



veins do not hold. Jack named the white-flowered form ruhicundum becaus. 



panicle and calyces are in it a fine rose-purple. 



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entire, 3-nerved. Flowers in terminal panicles, small, white or pu^P^^^jo^. 

 tube campanulate, glabrous or puberulous ; limb irregularly truncate <^^/^ jjort, 

 Petals 4-5. Stamens 8-10-12, equal ; filaments short, broad ; a°t'^^^ ^jjap- 

 obtuse, opening by slits down the front, connective spurred at the base o 

 pendaged. Ovari/ inferior, 2-5-celled, glabrous at the apex ; style shon, ^t^y__ 

 capitellate ; ovules numerous, placentas axile, nearly basal. Capsule t^^^^^g^jes 

 mg up irregularly. Seeds very many, linear, raphe excurrent.— DisxRi^V f 

 12 ; m Malaya, the Fiji and Navigator groups and Tahiti. . ' ■ 



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panicle and calyx-tube mjnutely brown-rufous tomentose, calyx 

 5-lobed. Melastoma smilaclfolia, Wall. Cat. 4067. 



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