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two long linear flat appendices or awns ; their points before 

 expansion only reaching to the top of the ovary. Ovary 

 adnate to the calyx, four-celled, polyspermous ; placentae 

 from the inner angles. Style simple, erect. Berry globose, 

 smooth, rather dry, four-celled, many-seeded. 

 Obs. This is a slender, delicate, small-flowered species, having 

 considerable resemblance to the following. The alternate 

 stamina are here very small, so as almost to appear abor- 

 tive ; but the form and structure of all the anthers and their 

 - appendages are precisely the same. In the first division of 

 the MelastomcE, the inequality of the stamina is occasioned 

 by the dissimilar structure of the alternate anthers ; in the 

 second, whatever difference may occur in their relative 

 lengths, their structure is precisely alike. No ambiguity 

 can therefore be occasioned by such an inequality as exists 

 in this species, were even its real affinities less strongly 

 expressed in its general habit and secondary characters. 



13. Melastoma glauca. W.J. 



M. tetrandra, paniculis terminalibus glaucis, foliis quinquener- 



viis acuminatis basi cordatis glabriusculis. 

 Osbeckia tetrandra. Roxh. Cat. Hort. Beng. p. 88. 

 Tuniong utan. Malay. 

 Abundant at Pulo Penang. 



A shrub of considerable height, with stellulate pubescence. 

 Brandies spreading, round, pubescent. Leaves opposite, 

 short-petioled, recurved, ovate-oblong, cordate at the base, 

 acuminate, entire, very smooth, thinly sprinkled beneath 

 with stellulate hairs, somewhat rigid, five-nerved, with pro- 

 minent transverse veins. Petioles short, tomentose, chan- 

 nelled above and ciliate on the edges, connected by an 



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