Tas. 5282. 
PHYLLAGATHIS rorunpiroita. 
Round-leaved Phyllagathis. 
Nat. Ord. MeLastomacem.—OcTanpria Monocynta. 
Gen. Char. Flos 4-merus. Calycis oblongo-campanulati Zimbus membrana- 
ceus, obtuse 4-lobus ; Jodis dorso denticulum externum, cuspidatum, apice 3—4- 
setosum, inferne in nervum abeuntem, gerentibus. Petala ovato-elliptica aut 
obovata, apiculata. Stamina 8, equalia aut subsequalia ; antheris nonnihil re- 
curvis, a basi ad apicem gradatim attenuatis ideoque subulatis, poro minutissimo 
apertis ; connectivo infra loculos nullo, postice ad basin vix conspicue incrassato. 
Ovarium toto ambitu adherens, apice membrana libera styli basim cingente coro- 
natum, 4-loculare. Placente lamelloso-cuneiformes, margine libero incrassate, 
multiovulate. Stylus filiformis, gracilis, stigmate punctiformi. Fructus (ex aue- 
toribus) baccatus, quadrilocularis. Semina ignota.—Frutex subherbaceus, Suma- 
tranus, macrophyllus ; foliis longe petiolatis, oppositis, subrotundis, apiculatis, basi 
subcordatis, margine tenuiter et obsolete sinuato-denticulatis aut subintegerrimis, 7-9- 
nerviis, viz non glabris; petiolis sparsim pilosis; floribus in capitula axillaria 
pedunculata dense congestis ; bracteis coloratis, late cordatis, involucratis, pur- 
purascentibus. Naudin. 
PHYLLAGATHIS rotundifolia ; foliis subrotundis glabris discoloribus subtus fer- 
rugineo-lepidotis, floribus in capitulis involucratis congestis. 
PHYLLAGATHIs rotundifolia. Blume, in Nat. Wet. v. 6. p. 2491; et in Regensb. 
Bot. Zeit. 1831, v. 2. p. 5071. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. p. 12. Korthals in 
Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. p. 252. t. 57. 
MeLastoma rotundifolium. Jack in Linn. Trans.v. 14. p.11. De Cand. Prodr- 
Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 149. t. 45. ° 
This is another.of the many plants which we owe to the Malay 
Islands, whose charms depend more on the rich colour of the 
foliage than on the beauty of the flowers, though, in the present 
instance, we have there colour also ; but it is outdone by the rich 
tints of the leaves, both above and below, and the plaited cha- 
racter of the latter, with their strong shadows and reflected 
lights. It was first detected in moist woods of the Musi country, 
in the interior of Sumatra, and described by our lamented country- 
man Dr. Jack, in his very valuable memoir on ‘The Malayan 
Species of Melastoma,’ published in the Linnzean Society’s Trans- 
actions, Zc. ‘I'he Dutch appear, at a later period, to have in- 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1861. 
