6 Dr. Jack on the Malayan Species of Melastoma. 
4. MELASTOMA DECEMFIDA. Rorb. 
M. decandra, floribus subsolitariis terminalibus, foliis quinque- 
nerviis, calyce decemfido setis mollibus porrectis echinato. 
Roab. Cat. Hort. Beng. p. 90. | 
Native of Pulo Penang. 
A large shrub. Branches round, beset with scattered strigose 
scales. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, acute 
and attenuated to the point, nearly entire, sometimes spi- 
nulose on the margin, five-nerved, with some scattered ap- 
pressed hairs on both surfaces.  Petioles, as well as the 
nerves of the under surface, covered with appressed strigæ, 
channelled above, and ciliate with long hairs along the 
margins. Flowers very large, nearly solitary, terminal, 
short-peduncled. Calyx ovate, densely covered, as well as 
the peduncle, with long erect soft spine-like bristles, ten- 
cleft: lacinie long, subulate, the alternate ones shorter. 
Petals five, large, red, spreading. Stamina ten, arcuate, 
rostrate; five larger, with pedicellate anthers, appendicu- 
late at the base. They are lodged in the cells between the 
calyx and ovary before expansion, as in other species. 
Style filiform. Fruit five-celled, many-seeded. 
Oss. This species has considerable resemblance to the M. Ma- 
labathrica, but has larger finer flowers. 
5. MELASTOMA STELLULATA. N.J. 
M. octandra, pedunculis axillaribus 1—5-floris, calycibus seto- 
sis, setis erectis spinescentibus apice stellato-multifidis, 
foliis oblongo-ovatis trinerviis subtus tomentosis. 
Daduruh Akkar. Malay. 
West Coast of Sumatra. 
| A shrub 
