405 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.  Melastoma. 
receptacles, which adhere vertically to the axis, as repre- — 
sented in Osbeckia hirta. Gert. sem. 2. t. 126. 
10. M. decemfida. R. 
Shrubby. Leaves petioled, lanceolar, three or five- 
nerved, entire, smooth, except a few bristles on the 
nerves, Flowers terminal, decandrous. Calyx ten-cleft, 
and very shaggy, with long stiff hairs. 
A native of hills on Pulo Pinang, in flower and sed : 
in July and August. 
11. M. curva. R. 4 
Shrubby ; all the tender parts strigose, Leaves petio- 
led, ovate-cordate, from five to seven-nerved, finely sel 
tulate. Panicles terminal, corymbiform, supradecom- 
pound. Flowers decandrous. Petals cordate, ciliate. 
A native of Chittagong. et 
12. M. furcata. R. 
Shrubby, tender parts a little bristly. Leaves short 
petioled, oblong, three-nerved, entire. Flowers terminal, 
long-pedicelled, decandrous. Calyx covered with bifid 
aioe, the segments of its border subulate, and decida-, 
“ous. » 
A native of the Moluccas, a slender, delicate species 
_ 13. M. dodecandra. R. 
_ All the tender parts more covered with bristles than : 
: ‘the lanceolate, entire, three-nerved leaves are. Flowers 
in terminal fascicles, dodecandrous, twelve segments of 
the very bristly calyx deciduous. ene alternately 
doubled. . 
A native of the Moluccas, and by far the tanjest-flow- 
ered species I have yet met with; when full plown 
they expand from four to’ ioe inches, The - cee 
only five cells, 
