3 Melastoma, j XLIX. MELASTOMACE X. 298. 
E mr ` vm with appressed chaffy scales or bristles ; lobes usually 5, from 
nceolate, more or less acuminate, longer and sometimes much longer 
1 Fruit nearly globular, 3 to n nearly 4 lines Cu Seeds imbedded in a 
S m pulp.— A. polyanthum, ere Mus. Bot. i. 52.1.6; M. denticulatum, 
- abill. Sert. Austr. Caled. i. 65. t. 64; M. Nove- Hollandie, Naud. in Ann. 
. QN. Australia. Between Providence Hill and M‘Adam Range, and Adelaide river, F. 
Mueller ; Port I E Armstr 
s Queenslan - Endeavour river, Banks and Solander, A. Cunningham ; Brisbane river, 
Moreton Bay, G Cunningham, and others ; ZE Elliott, Dallachy. 
ales. i 
, Wi 
E alabathricum is usually distiuguished by its larger flowers, with the 
bracts and cal RE en rp in p on, but some of the Moreton TS cimens have 
| ln nearly a as Kee as the Indian ones. Many Australian specimens correspond exactly 
S h those polyanthum on Se Archipelago, or with hess of M. denticulatum, 
2 from New Caledonia, and it is probable that ber species should include the whole of the 
m^ ad or proposed by Naudin c. Nat. ser. 3. xiii. 283 to 293, as 
M. m bathricum vergentes hoi difficilius distinguende,” besides 
T gl vem p. 294, not seen by him. ‘The characters are generally 
E 4, MEMECYLON, Linn. 
P Calyx-tube hemispherical or campanulate, the limb entire or obtusely 4- 
lobed; rare 
EN 
-lobed. Petals 4 or ra ly 5, ovate or orbicular. Stamens 
ovules, verticillate ikid a eme central Te endet style filifor m, ed a small 
ruit a o crowned by the eniro teeth or border, or by a circular 
Seeds so litary or rarel or 38; testa somewhat crustaceous ; 
"me T shrubs. Leaves coriaceons, with 1 prominent midrib and 
€ veins Kb scarcely perceptible. Flowers usually small, in axillary 
heien, op cym 
Pond bo: = "wë over the tropical regions of the Old World, the species especially nu- 
Tadic, el ge the Indian Archipelag o. The only Australian one is also in Ceylon 
nsula, 
ie umbe ellatum, Burm. Fi. Ind. 81. A bus shy or Med cé 
1 shrub, quite ge Leaves shortly petiolate, from broadly ovate 
b 
„y Quite inconspicuous. Peduneles axillary, very short, bearing 
r sho ortly racemose cluster of small flowers, oif slender pedicels 
S rather more. Adnate part of the calyx-tube very short, the free 
Pe Mpanulate, less than 1 line diameter, broadly and shortly 4- 
S ale Peg e, acute, about 1 line long. Stamens exceeding the petals. 
à ooth, nearly globular, about 3 or rarely 4 lines diameter, 
by the small persistent calyx-limb ; periearp slightly fleshy. Seed 
