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rious, petiolate, oblong, cordate at the base, terminating in 
a long obtuse acumen, entire, smooth above, sprinkled with 
minute stellate hairs beneath, five-nerved, the outermost 
pair less distinct than the others; five or six inches long. 
Petioles short, generally furnished with one or two setæ 
on the edges immediately below the leaf. Stipules none ; 
interpetiolar line prominent, naked.  Panicles oppositely 
corymbose, trichotomous, terminal and axillary, the whole 
forming a large foliose panicle at the end of the branch. 
Bracts rather large, opposite, erect, oblong, ciliate, pube- 
scent as well as the peduncles and calyces. Calyx oblong- 
ovate; limb nearly entire. Corolla white, four-petalled ; 
petals acute, subrotate. Stamina eight, of which four are 
fertile, bearing thick, straight, yellow anthers; the alter- 
nate four are sterile, of nearly equal length, but having in 
place of an anther a simple filiform process, which is appen- 
diculate at the base: both are equally incurved between the 
calyx and ovary before expansion. Style subulate, decli- 
nate. Stigma small. Berry sub-globose, purple, four- 
celled, many-seeded. Seeds attached to placentæ, which 
project from the inner angle of the cells. — 
15. MELASTOMA EXIMIA. 
M. octandra, paniculis terminalibus, foliis maximis glaberrimis 
elliptico-ovatis quintuplinerviis. 
Found on the side of Gunong Bünko, commonly called the 
Sugar-loaf Mountain, in the interior of Bencoolen. 
This is a large shrub with irregularly four-sided branches. 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, very large, elliptic-ovate, 
acute at both ends, with a short acumen at the point, entire, 
very smooth, thick and leathery, quintuple-nerved, fifteen 
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