known of the genus, until the very recent (1891) publica- 
tion of Cogniaux’s Monograph of Melastomacex, in which 
Seventeen species are introduced, many of them Bornean. 
A. Grifithit is a very handsome stove plant, of which 
there are specimens in the Kew Herbarium, collected by 
Col. Walker (so well known for his Ceylon botanical ex- 
plorations) half a century ago at Malacca, whence it has 
also been sent by Griffith and Maingay. 
The specimen here figured arrived at the Royal Gardens 
from Penang, in a box of living plants sent by Mr. C. 
Curtis, Assistant Superintendent of Gardens and Forests, 
in 1892, and it flowered in June of the present year. Mr. 
Watson informs me that it grows very slowly.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2 and 8, stamens; 4, ovary disk and style; 5, vertical 
section of ovary and disk :—AJl enlarged. 
