405 DECANDRiA MONOGYNiA. Melastoma, 



receptacles, -which adhere vertically to the axis, as repre- 

 sented in Osbeckia hirta. Gert. sem. 2. t. 126. 



10. M. decemfida. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves petioled, lanceolar, three or five- 

 nerved, entire, smooth, except a few bristles on the 

 nerves. Flowers terminal, decandrous. Calyx len-cleft, 

 and very shagg^y, with long stiff hairs. 



A native of hills on Pulo Pinang, in flower and seed 

 in July and August. 



11. M. curia. R. 



Shrubby ; all the tender parts strigose. Leaves petio- 

 led, ovate-cordate, from five to seven-nerved, finely ser- 

 rulate. Panicles terminal, corymbiform, supradecom- 

 pound. Flowers decandrous. Petals cordate, ciliate. 



A native of Chittagong. 



12. M. furcata. R. 



Shrubby, tender parts a little bristly. Leaves short- 

 petioled, oblong, three-nerved, entire. Flowers terminal, 

 long-pedicelled, decandrous. Calyx covered with bifid 

 strigoe, the segments of its border subulate, and decidu- 

 ous. 



A native of the Moluccas, a slender, delicate species. 



13. M. dodecandra. R. 



All the tender parts more covered with bristles than 

 the lanceolate, entire, three-nerved leaves are. Flowers 

 in terminal fascicles, dodecandrous, twelve segments of 

 the very bristly calyx deciduous. Filaments alternately 

 doubled. 



A native of the Moluccas, and by far the largest-flow- 

 ered species 1 have yet met with ; when full blown 

 they expand from four to five inches. The capsule has 

 only five cells. 



