Shrubs 
294 XLIX. MELASTOMACE. [Memecylon e 
solitary, ‘globular ; opiniei fleshy and Ze el contortuplieate.— 
hwaites, Enum. Ceyl. Pl. 111; M. ramifforu . Dict. iv. 88, D. ` 
Prod. iii. 6 (at least as to the Indian plant) ; Wight orem i. 214. t. 93 
(M. tinctorium, Keen. on the plate) ; Myrcia ? Australasia, F. Muell. m 
Burd. Exped. 7. 
N. Australia. North-west coast, 4. Cunningham 
Queensland. Estuary of the B yea Zeien Mount Elliott, Edgecombe and 
Rockingham Bays, Dallachy , Cleveland 
"ën species is common in Ceylon at the piis Peninsula, and perhaps also in the 
itius : 
Specimens of a Wat from the Wer da Beckler and ere? and from Richmond ` ` 
river, C. Moore sg nly E bea agir s MSS. name of Nelitris (2 us pa 
i n to me. 
are penniveine a, ubt unlike those of "Eug miri but rather nee aud not eng 
The fruits are n cymes, cher t GE me in it e upper E u 
diameter, ech d with the alyx-limb. Seed lo Mate g lobular Embryo t 
and hard, the cotyledons Co yen folded and con in Memecylon 
d 
Orver L. LYTHRARIEÆ. 
Calyx-tube ie but usually enclosing the ovary ; lobes or primary teeth 4 
5, or Sometimes ore, ec) rarely 3, valvate in the bud, the sinus sometimes pro ` 
duce S many accessory teeth. Petals as many as primary calyx- 
er or lobes, rarely deficient, inserted at the to op wt the calyx-tube, “usually 
crumpled i in the bud. ens as many or twi many as Le er — 
lle 
the stigma ibn or rarely 2-lobed. Ovules Beda numerous, ana SCH 
attached to the axis, or very rarely parietal. Fruit a membranous co 
or hard capsule, variously dehiscent, enclosed in or surrounded by the p 
sistent ealyx, the valves usually detaching themseltes Ho the central per e 
membranous or rarely thick ; embryo straight ; SCH oblong of ii 
cular-cordate ; Sg short, or rarely cotyledons small and radicle Lac 
Herbs shrubs o trees. Leaves s opposite, ver illata à or semen om 
entire, without stipules Flowers in axillary or terminal panicles cymes 
dates rarely solita 
A considerable O ure Mis of the herbaceous genera spread over the KS? EG 
globe, the larger woody-stemmed ones confined to the tropies in the Old or th 
The five Australian disi are all Asiatic, three of them at least are also African, 
two herbaceous genera extend to America and Eur 
ropo: 
Annuai or perennial herbs, we rarely becoming woody at the base 
Calyx short, membranous, the ribs inconspicuous or only as 
ae teeth ; Sne teeth minute or none. Petals v gums or 1. Ant 
Calyx V narrow, with twice as many ribs as prim teeth; accessory te teeth i 
: qe army Petals usually conspicuous. . e . 2. int 
or tre 
Stamens Sec as many as petals, 
