.SONERILA. MELASTOMACEJE. 321 
to a mere point. Placentz in the axis. Fruit plurilocular ; either free 
and then capsular, valvate and loculicide ; or adherent, baecate (a ba- 
lausta), and indehiscent. Seeds numerous, minute. Albumen none. 
Embryo straight or curved: radicle pointing to the hilum : cotyledons 
equal or unequal.— Leaves opposite, undivided, not dotted, 3-9- 
nerved, 
I. SONERILA. Roxb. 
Calyx tube oblong or somewhat 3-angled, cohering with the ovary with 
3-6 longitudinal lines : limb trifid, the segments deciduous. Petals 3, ovate- 
lanceolate, acute. Stamens 3: anthers oblong, pointed, straightish, bifid at 
the base, opening at the apex by two pores; connectivum not produced at 
the base. Ovary truncated and glabrous at the apex. Style filiform. Stig- 
ma obtuse. Capsule turbinate, crowned with the margin of the calyx which 
is thickened on the inside, 3-celled, 3-valved, the valves opening at the apex 
only. Seeds cuneate-obovate, sharp and somewhat grooved along one side : 
hilum at the base.—Herbaceous or suffrutescent usually small plants. Leaves 
membranous, hairy, opposite, one of them often a little smaller than the 
other, rarely quite abortive. Peduncles axillary or terminal, few-flowered. 
wers racemose or fascicled, rose-coloured. 
990. (1) S. Rheedei (Wall.:) stem short, hairy: leaves ovate, somewhat 
cordate at the base, remotely bristle-serrate, feather-nerved ; upper surface 
sprinkled with short thick bristles arising from whitish spots; under paler, 
somewhat scaly: peduncles solitary, axillary or terminal, hairy, about the 
length of the leaves, with 4-8 fascicled or somewhat umbellate pedicellate 
Owers at the apex : calyx hairy: petals ovate, pointed: anthers oblong, subu- 
late, sagittate at the base : style longer than the stamens: stigma peltate.— 
Wall. ! L. n. 4096.— Rheed. Mal. 9. t. 65. : 
In Dr Wallich's specimens, which are rather imperfect, there is no stem, 
only 2-3 leaves, and one peduncle or scape : in Rheede’s figure there is a short 
stem as in S. maculata, to which it is perhaps too closely allied. 
991. (2) S. maculata (Roxb. :) stem short, terete, hairy ; branches diffuse, 
airy: leaves ovate, or unequally cordate, obtuse or shortly acuminated, 
*prinkled on both sides with long tapering bristles arising from white spots, 
feather-nerved : peduncles axillary, bearing a curved raceme of several uni- 
lateral flowers : petals ovate, pointed: anthers sagittate at the base, acumi- 
nated: style the length of the stamens: stigma simple, obtuse: capsules some- 
what clavate, 3-sided, glabrous.— Roab. fl. Ind. 1. p. 177 ; (ed. Wall.) 1. 
P. 180 ; Wall.! L. n. 4091.—8. Rottleri, Wall. ! L. n. 4097.—Courtallum. 
The spots described by Roxburgh, and figured in our first species by 
Rheede, are not distinguishable in the dried specimen. We can find no 
mark by which to separate S. Rottleri from S. maculata, except that the e 
sules of the latter appear shorter; but as in the specimens before us (Dr Wal- 
ich's), they are immature, we dare not found a distinction on that point. 
.. 992. E S. Brunonis (W. & A. :) herbaceous?: stems (about a foot high 
9r more) erect, branched ; branches acutely 4-angled, glabrous : leaves long- 
 Petioled, ovate, bristle-serrated, 5-7-nerved at the base, hairy or at length - 
glabrous.: peduncles terminal, longer than the leaves: flowers unilateral, 
ongish- pedicelled, racemose: calyx glabrous: petals lanceolate, pointed: 
anthers ovate, short-pointed : style about the length of the cee: POEMA 
"apitate: capsules turbinate, 3-sided, strongly and prominently 6-ribbed, - 
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