ae 
TAs. 4569. 
MEDINILLA JAvanensIis. - 
Javanese Medinilla. 
Nat. Ord. MELAsToMacE#.—OcTANDRIA Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4533.) 
MEDINILLA Javanensis ; caule fruticoso, ramis acuto-tetragonis levibus, foliis 
sessilibus elliptico-ovatis acutis quintuplinerviis integerrimis basi subcordatis, 
paniculis terminalibus axillaribusve erectis strictis, bracteis obsoletis, ca- 
lycis dentibus 5 minutissimis, staminibus 10 parvis, antheris basi antice 
bi-gibbosis dorso calcaratis. 
MEDINILLA Javanensis. Blume, Flora, v.14. p.515. Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 2. 
p. 142. 
MELASTOMA Javanense. Blume, Bijdr. p.1078. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 147. 
This, though correctly referred by Blume to Medinilla, has 
little of the beauty of JZ. speciosa and M. magnifica, and others 
of the genus; but it forms a handsome shrub, with ample, five- 
nerved foliage. We are indebted to Messrs. Rollisons, of 
Tooting, for this plant, which they imported through their . 
collector from Java, along with another species of the genus, J. 
crassifolia, which has flowered at the same time with this, viz., 
in December 1850. Inhabits the stove. 
Descr. A shrué of erect habit, with acutely four-sided, smooth 
branches. The leaves large, sessile, elliptical-ovate, acute, entire, 
five-nerved, somewhat cordate at the base, the costa red at the 
setting on of the leaf: the general colour dark green, pale and 
slightly tinged with red beneath. Pancc/e terminal and lateral 
(Blume), small, compact. Bracts small, deciduous.  Calya 
turbinate, pale flesh-colour, glabrous, with five very minute 
teeth. Petals five, obovate, pale rose-colour. Stamens small, 
ten. Filaments subulate, white. 4uthers dark purple, with two 
yellowish obtuse spurs or gibbosities at the base in front, and 
one deflexed at the base behind. WV. J. 77. 
MARCH Ist, 1851. 
