Melastoma. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA,. 406 
cordate, entire, threé-:nerved, (beside the marginal rib.) 
Panicles terminal, divaricate.' Flowers octandrous. Ca- 
lyx subcylindric, with the mouth obscurely four-toothed. 
Capsule hid in the bottom of the calyx. 
_A native of the Moluccas. The flowers in this pretty, 
smooth species, are uncommonly small, with the oval pe- 
tals shorter than the filaments, which are all simple, and 
shorter than their anthers. 
8. M. cordifolia. R. 
Scandent, every part smooth, Leaves short-petioled, 
cordate, entire. Panicles terminal. Flowers octandrous, 
Petals ovate. Calyx with an ‘aida oe neeneeer: 
border... 
A native of Chittagong and Pulo eon 
9. M. saibbathriba. Willd. 2, 592. 
Shrubby, tender parts strigose. Leaves entire, broad- 
lanceolar, from three to five-nerved, scabrous, with ap- 
pressed, short, sharp, flat bristles. Flowers terminal, 
and surrounded with ovate-cordate bractes, divisions s 
the calyx cordate, acute. | 
- Kadali. Rheed. Mal. 4. t. 42. 
A large shrub, or small tree, a native of our Circar 
mountains, Chittagong, &c. It flowersin March. _ 
- Leaves opposite, sbort-petioled, broad lanceolar, from 
three tu five-nerved, entire, scabrous, particularly above ; 
about four and a half inches long, and one and a half or 
two broad... Flowers terminal, short-peduncled, large, 
red. . Calyx 4nd Corol as in the genus. Filaments ten, 
yellow, five are short, tapering, ending in a crescent-shap- 
ed gland, in which the anthers sit ; five others are alter- 
hate with those five, double their length, have a bend, 
With a crescent-shaped process on their middle. Anthers 
, erect. Germ hairy, five-celled, with numerous 
ovula in each cell, attached to their semi-ovate une 
