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vfir. ft lonyicdlliii, Trinii. Loaves, the 4-cornerecl stem and branohos glabrous, 

 tlie latter usually bristly fringed between the petioles. Calyx and its lobes quite 

 glabrous, or only the latter ciliato. 



var. 7 ternifuUa, Trian. Pretty glabrous, branches S-cornered, calyx less 

 stellate-bristly, without additional teeth between the lanceolate-linear calyx-lobes. 



*•* PHah 5. Btamem 10. 



0. Nepalexsis, Hook. Khakyen hills. 



More or less densely pubescent. Petiole very short or the leaves almost sessile. 

 Bracts broadly obovate. Calyx loosely covered with rotundate fringed scales. 



0. ASPERiCAULis, H. f. Tenasscriui (?). 



More or less appressed bristly, the branches much tubcrcled. Petiole j-1 inch 

 long. Bracts lanceolate. Calyx appressed setose. 



Otaxihera, lilume. 

 Anthers equal. Fruit a berry. 

 0. BRACTEATA, Kortli. Tenasscrini. 



Melastoma, Linnceus. 

 Anthcr>t always unequal. Fruit a berrv. 



X Leaves more or less appressed bristlij hairy or pubescent. 

 + C'ali/x covered with closeli/ appressed ehajfy scale-like bristles. 



M. Malabathricusi, L. E.S. In waste spots all over Burma. 



Trembleya rhijmantliera, Griff. 



Myet-pyai. 



Scales of calyx about f, line long or longer, often rather bi-oad, the calycini" lobes 

 shorter, often only half as long as the tube. Leaves usually appressed-strigosc on 

 both sides, usually acute. 



A small procumbent form is common at Kamorta. 



I have no clear idea as to the ditferences between the various species of this 

 alliance. Bentham reduces all the 40 species enumerated by Xaudiu as " species 

 magis ad M. Jlaldliufhricuin vergentes ideoque diflicilius distinguendie," while Triana 

 keeps most of them distinct, without assigning diagnostic characters to them (Kurz). 



M. NORMAi-E, Don. F.S. Khakyen Hills and Martaban up to 5000 feet. 



M. Nepalensc, Lodd. 



Scales of calyx up to a line long, chalTy, ciliate or finely cleft, the calycinc lobes 

 about as long as the tube, ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, alternating with as many 

 short subulate teeth. Leaves on both sides, or beneath oidy, softly appressed- 

 pubescent, usually acuminate. 



-| — (- ('(dijx covered with squarrose spread itiy scale-like bristles about 2 lines long. 



M. IIoirrKA.Ni'jr, Naud. E.S. Pegu Range, Martaban, aud the Andamaus. 



Leaves softly appressed-pubescent on both sides. 



M. CORDIFOLIA, Eoxb. Chittagong. 



M. cuKVA, Hoxb. Chittagong. 



M. roLYAXTUUii, Bl., also occurs at the Xicobars. 



OXYSrORIEM. 



Connective acute or spurred behind, not appendagcd in front. Seeds angular or 

 oblong to club-shaped. 



OxvspoKA, De Candolle. 



Cah/x costate. Stamens 4, equal, or 8 and usually unequ.il. Ovary and the 

 club-shaped capsule adnatc to the calyx. Flowers laxly cymose, in terminal panicles. 



