Melasfoma. decandria monogynia. 406 



cordate, entire, three-nerved, (beside the marnjinal rib.) 

 Panicles terminal, divaricate. Flowers octandrous. Ca- 

 lyx subcylindric, with the mouth obscurely four-toothed. 

 Capsule hid in the bottom of the calyx. 



A native of the Moluccas. The flowers in this pretty, 

 smooth species, are uncommonly small, with the oval pe- 

 tals shorter than the filaments, which are all simple, and 

 shorter than their anthers. 



8. M. ccrdifoUa. R. 



Scandent, every part smooth. Leaves short-petioled, 

 cordate, entire. Panicles terminal. Flowers octandrous. 

 Petals ovate. Calyx with an ample, obtusely four-lobed 

 border. 



A native of Chittagong and Pulo Pinang. 



9. M. maJabathrica. Willd. 2. 692. 



Shrubby, tender parts strigose. Leaves entire, broad- 

 lanceolar, from three to five-nerved, scabrous, with ap- 

 pressed, short, sharp, flat bristles. Flowers terminal, 

 and surrounded with ovate-cordate bractes, divisions of 

 the calyx cordate, acute. 



Kadali. Rheed. Mai. 4. t. 42. 



A large shrub, or small tree, a native of our Circar 

 mountains, Chittagong, &c. It flowers in March. 



Leaves opposite, short-petioled, broad lanceolar, from 

 three to five-nerved, entire, scabrous, particularly above ; 

 about four and a half inches long, and one and a half or 

 two broad. Flowers terminal, short-peduncled, large, 

 red. Calyx and Coral as in the genus. Filaments ten, 

 yellow, five are short, tapering, ending in a crescent-shap- 

 ed gland, in which the anthers sit ; five others are alter- 

 nate with those five, double their length, have a bend, 

 with a crescent-shaped process on their middle. Anthers 

 linear, erect. Germ hairy, five-celled, with numerous 

 ovula in each cell, attached to their semi-ovate cuneate 



