402 _ ‘DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Melastoma, 
This species is perennial, it delights in moist. places 
overgrown with small jungle.- Flowering time the wet 
season, ae 
Stem erect, when old woody. Young parts slightly 
four-sided, and downy. Leaves alternate, sessile, lineat- 
lanceolate, entire, downy, from two to four inches long. 
Stipules: minute, semilanceolate. ..Peduncles axillary, 
solitary, very short, one-flowered. Calyx four-cleft, Pe- 
tals four, orbicular, clawed, Stamens eight, erect. Cap- 
sule four-celled. a 
MELASTOMA. Schreb. gen. n. 742. 
Calyx campanulate, five-toothed. Corol five-petalled, _ 
inserted into the mouth of the calyx. Germ five-celled; 
cells many seeded ; attachment to a cuneiform recepta- 
cle projecting from the axis. Capsules five-celled, in- 
volved in the calyx. Seeds numerous. 
_ Note. All the species examined by me, have the seeds 
regularly attached to a cuneiform semilunar, receptacle 
in each cell, vertically ’united to the axis, as in Osbecki@ 
hirta Gert. sem. 2. t. 126. I make this remark becaus¢ 
Geertner describes them to be nidulent ; his seed vessels 
may have been old, and the receptaclesdecayed. » — 
1. M. ferruginea, R. eit 
Shrubby, all. the tender parts, except the upper sur: 
face of the short-petioled, ovate-cordate, acuminate, &® - 
tire leaves, covered with ferruginous, stellate pubescence 
Panicles terminal. Flowers octandrous... Calyx Wi 
ample, obtusely four-lobed borders. igi? fel ‘ 
is A native of Pulo Pinang, 
2. M. cxinita, Rk | | | | 132 “ital 4 
Shrubby, all the tender sonia t very ey Leaves PO" ; 
tioled, lanceolate, from three to five nerved, entires Pt 
