on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IV. 217 
except the inflorescence, which he calls a panicle, whereas it consists of from 
one to five terminal flowers, each supported by an undivided pedunculus. 
This difference, however, may have arisen either from his having used the 
term panicle without strictly attending to its definition, or from his having 
taken this part of his description from the figure of the Katow Kadali: he 
could not take it from the Kadali, where the flowers are evidently disposed in 
racemes. The figure of the M. Malabathrica, however, given by M. Lamarck 
(Ill. Gen. t. 361. f. 1.) represents only three nerves, while the inflorescence is 
not a panicle, but three terminal one-flowered pedunculi, a difference between 
the figure and description for which I cannot account. 
In the Hortus Kewensis neither Kadali nor Katou Kadali is quoted for the 
M. Malabathrica (iii. 46.), which I consider is proper, neither being the plant 
described by the elder Burman. The only figure quoted in the Hortus Kew- 
ensis is in the Botanical Magazine of Mr. Curtis (No. 529.), where, indeed, the 
Kadali and Fragrarius niger are quoted ; but then the figure, by the number of 
nerves and the size of the flower, sufficiently shows that the M. quinquenervia 
hirta major of the elder Burman (Thes. Zeyl. 155. t. 73.) is actually meant. 
In the Hortus Bengalensis (33.), in general very accurate, the Kadali is 
quoted for the M. Malabathrica, which, therefore, should be added to the 
synonyma of the M. aspera of Burman; and the M. aspera of Dr. Roxburgh 
must be some other plant, which I have had no means of ascertaining ; but it 
may perhaps be the following, or Ben Kadali. 
Dr. Jack, in his valuable paper already mentioned (4.), quotes as usual the 
Kadali and Fragrarius niger for his M. Malabathrica; but the leaves of his 
plant have five nerves, and it is not therefore that of Rheede and Rumphius ; 
nor, on account of its inflorescence, is it the plant of Burman (Tes. Zeyl. t. 73.), 
which I presume is Dr. Jack's M. obvoluta. 
Ben Kapau, p. 89. 
No figure is given of this plant; but as it is stated to be very like the pre- 
ceding, we may infer that its leaves have three nerves, and therefore, as I have 
said, it may be the M. aspera of Dr. Roxburgh. It is evidently a very distinct 
species from the Kadali, and also from the Melastoma Malabathrica of Curtis, 
both of which have the alternate stamina much longer than the other five; 
