-324 MELASTOMACE X. MELastoma. 
the flowers are in a short terminal raceme; the calyx-tube cup-shaped, the 
lower part covered with adpressed bristly pubescence, the upper sprinkled 
with short scales that are ciliated at the apex with long spreading bristles; 
the segments (5) are lanceolate, shortly ciliated, hirsute and keeled along the 
k, glabrous between the keel and the margins, and crowned, as well as 
the linear appendages, with stellate bristles. 
III. MELASTOMA. Linn.; Don; DC. 
Calyx-tube ovate, often clothed with scales: limb 5- (or rarely 4-6-) cleft, 
the lobes deciduous, with small appendages arising from the outside between 
the lobes. Petals as many as the calyx-lobes. Stamens twice as many as 
the petals and dissimilar, rarely only as many: anthers beaked, opening by a 
single pore ; the connectivum in those that alternate with the petals is short 
and 2-lobed at the base: in those that are opposite the petals elongated-linear 
(resembling a second stalk or filament to the anthers), and 2-spurred at the 
very base. Ovary crowned with bristles. Stigma pruinose. Capsule 5- (or 
rarely 4- or 6-) celled. Seeds cochleate.—Shrubs, usually hispid from bristles. 
Leaves petioled, 3-7-nerved. Peduncles axillary or terminal. Flowers 
large, white, red or purple. 
1001. (1) M. Malabathricum (Linn.:) shrubby: branches 4-angled, ex- 
treme ones compressed, rough from adpressed bristles or scales : leaves ellip- 
tic-oblong, somewhat acute, obtuse at the base, quite entire, green on both 
sides ; upper side strigose from rigid flat bristles ; under hirsute on the nerves 
and veins, harshly pubescent between them: corymbs terminal, 1-5-flowered, 
sessile or nearly so ; flowers surrounded with large ovate-cordate deciduous 
bracteoles: calyx-tube copiously clothed with small adpressed lanceolate 
toothed scales; lobes ovate, acute.— Linn. sp. p. 559; DC. prod. 3. p. 145; 
Spr. syst. 2. p. 299 ; Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 405 ; Wall.! L.n.40405 Wight: 
cat. n. 1150.— Rheed. Mal. 4. t. 52; Rumph. Amb. 4. t.72. ` d 
t 1002. (2) M. polyanthum (Benth.)— Wall. L. n. 4051. 
IV. TRIPLECTRUM. Don. mst. f 
Calyx fleshy, somewhat infundibuliform, truncated at the margin. Petals 
3; two oblong, obtuse, recurved ; the third (formed of two united) broadly pe 
obovate, emarginate. Stamens 8, all similar: anthers oblong-linear, elon- 
gated but not beaked, opening by a terminal pore ; connectivum produced at 
the base into three short blunt spurs, two in front of the filament, the other - " 
behind it. Ovary free, stalked, oval, glabrous. Style slender, subulató — 
curved.—Shrubby, glabrous, throwing out roots from the joints. Leaves 22 
roundish-oval, fleshy, 3-nerved, quite entire, on short petioles : frequently —— 
there is only one pair on a short lateral branchlet, opposite to which springs 5 3 
the solitary 1-flowered peduncle. EN 
A most remarkable plant, of which we ha t the fruit. It is closely - 3 
allied to Medinilla, Gaud., which Blume fes «i Herde with upwards of twenty — 
species, but differs from all of that genus by the union of the two upper petals. E 
1003. (1) T. radicans (Don! mst.)— Wight ! cat. n. 1151. 
V. PTERNANDRA. Jack. MO uere f di 
.. Calyx-tube ovate ; limb obsoletely 4-toothed or almost entire. 2 NIME. 
Stamens 8, equal: anthers introflexed, compressed, spurred behind at tf 
