Tas. 4650. 
MEDINILLA Srepo.piana. 
Stebold’s Medinilla. 
Nat. Ord. MELASTOMACEm.—-OcTANDRIA Monoe@ynlIa. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4533.) 
MuEpINtL1a Sieboldiana ; glaberrima, ramis teretibus ad nodos stuposo-barbatis, 
foliis oppositis breviter petiolatis (petiolis crassis) elliptico-ovatis coriaceis 
basi acutis apice brevissime acuminatis quinquenerviis supra saturate 
viridibus subtus pallidis, paniculis thyrsoideis terminalibus pedunculatis 
nutantibus, floribus tetrameris, calycis tubo globoso, limbo brevissimo 
eroso, antheris basi bilobis dorso inferne calcaratis. 
MeEpINILLA Sieboldtiana. “ Planch. in Van Houtte, Fl. des Serres, v. 5. t. 482.” 
Walp. Aun. Bot. v. 2. p. 604. : 
A native, it is said, of the Moluccas, whence it appears to have 
been introduced to the Belgian gardens by M. Van Houtte, and 
through that channel to our stoves in England. It forms a hand- 
some shrub, with large dark green leaves, and drooping racemes 
of waxy rose-coloured flowers, having dark purple anthers. Our 
increased intercourse with the Malay Archipelago has been the 
means of adding considerably to our knowledge of the species 
of this fine genus. Twenty-four species are enumerated in 
Walpers’ ‘ Repertorium,’ and eleven additional ones are given mn 
the ‘Annales’ of the same author—thirty-five in all. Most of 
them are described in Blume’s Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat., a work of 
great value to the student of the botany of the Dutch possessions 
in the Malay Islands. For the mode of cultivation, see under 
our Tab. 4569. With us this species flowers in the spring, and 
continues long in blossom. . 
Duscr. Our plant is between three and four feet high, 
shrubby, with the stem and opposite branches quite terete ; the - 
branchlets only are here and there seen to have an indistinct 
angle. At the nodes of the stem and branches, between the 
JUNE Ist, 1852. 
