MELASTOMATACEAE. 



Determined by Alfred Rehdeb and E, H. Wilson, 



MELASTOMA 



Melastoma nonnale D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal 220 (1825). 

 De Candolle, Prodr, III. 145 (1828). — Naudin in Ann. Sci. Nat. 

 s^r. 3, XIII. 289 (1849). — C. B. Clarke in Hooker f., Fl Brit Ind. 

 II. 524 (1879). — Cogniaux in De Candolle, Monog. Phaner. VII. 352 

 (1891). — Guillaumin in Le Comte, Nol Syst II. 319, fig. 7, 6 

 (1913). — L^veill6, Fl Kouy-Tcheou, 277 (1914). 



Melasioma napalensis Loddiges, Bot. Cab. VIII. t. 707 (1823). 

 Melastoma Wallichii De Candolle, Prodr. III. 146 (1828). 

 Melastoma pelagicum Naudin in Ann. Sci. Nat. s^r. 3, XIII. 279 (1849). 

 Melastoma longiflorum Naudin, I. c. 290 (1849). 



Melastoma Cavaleriei I^veill^ in Fedde, Rep. Spec. Nov. III. 21 (1906). 

 Melastoma Esquirolii L^veiU6, 1. c. VIII. 61 (1910). 



MelastoTna malahathricum Dunn in Jour. lAnn. Soc. XXXIX, 467 (non Lin- 

 naeus, nee Desrousseaux, Sims, Ker, Jack, Blanco) (1911). 



Szech'uan: banks of Yangtsze River, May 1903 (Veitch Exped. No 

 3648). Western Szech'uan: Omei Hsien, roadside thickets, alt. 

 300-800 m., July and October 1908 (No. 3259; bush 1-2 m., flowers 

 rose to rose-purple); Mt. Omei, June 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 4907); 

 same general locality, A. Henry (No. 8976); E. Faher (No. 495). 

 Yunnan : Mengtsze, alt. 1600 m., A. Henry (No. 10954). 



This is a common shrub on the red sandstone hills in the neighborhood of the 

 city of Kiating Fu and in Omei Hsien from river-level up to 800 m. altitude. 



OSBECKIA L. 



Osbeckia crinita Clarke in Hooker f., Fl Bril Ind, II. 517 (non 

 Naudin) (1879). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc, XXIII. 299 (1887). — 

 Cogniaux in De Candolle, Monog. Phaner. VII. 323 (1891). — Pritzel 

 in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 484 (1900). — Dunn & Tutcher in Kew Bull 

 Misc, Inform, add. ser. X. 106 (Fl Kwangtung & Hongh.) (1912). 

 Guillaumin in Lecomte, Nol Sysl II. 308 (1913). 



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