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Tious, 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 setae 

 on the edges immediately below the leaf. Stipules none ; 

 interpetiolar line prominent, naked. Panicles oppositely 

 <?orymbose, 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. Cali/x 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. Seec/s attached to placentae, 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 Bdnko, 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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