‘Melastoma. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.- 403 
nicles terminal ; flowers octandrous ; border of the calyx 
eight-parted ; segments ensiform, four of them minute, all 
ciliate. 
A native of the most moist, and shaded parts of the 
rocky coast of Chittagong where it blossoms in April and 
May. It is remarkable for its great quantity of long, dis- 
tinct, appressed, pale coloured hair, and large beautiful 
red flowers. 
3. M. pulchella. R. 
Shrabby. Leaves short-petioled, lanceolate, entire ; . 
margins and nerves with a few appressed bristles, Pa- 
nicles terminal; bractes cordate, bristle-ciliate. Flow- 
ers octandrous, in the bud, bristle-ciliate, and ramentace- 
ous. 
A native of Chittagong. 
4, M. geniculata. R. 
Shrubby. Leaves subsessile, lanceolar, entire, sca- 
brous, bristly, with three strigose nerves. Flowers ter- 
Ihinal, triple, octandrous, alternate, filament jointed. 
A large ramous shrub, a native of many parts of In- 
dia, gciab 
Bark of the old branches pretty smooth, of the young 
very strigose; all round. . Leaves opposite,  short-pe- 
tioled, lanceolar, entire, three-nerved, scabrous on’ both. 
sides, not only from numerous, short, bristly hairs point- 
ing forward, but also from a natural harshness ; the under 
Side of the nerves, and petioles strigose.. Flowers termi-; 
nal, generally three-fold, short-peduncled. | Peduncles 
Very strigose. Bractes solitary, or in pairs to each flow- 
€ts, ovate-concave, and falling off with, or soon after the 
petals, leaving the tube of the calyx for an envelope to 
the capsule. Calyx four-parted, very strigose; divisions — 
cordate, acute. _Corol four-petalled. Filameniaalier- ; 
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