[Plate 12.] 
THE MAGNIFICENT MEDINILL. 
(MEDINILLA MAGNIFICA.) 
An evergreen stove Shrub from Java, belonging to the Natural Order of Melastomads 
Specific Cljarartrr. 
TUB MAGNIFICENT M KDINILL.— An evergreen erect 
bush, perfectly smooth in every part, with compressed 
4-winged branches, setose at the nodes. Leaves opposite, 
leathery, obovate-oblong, cordate, somewhat stem- clasping, 
suddenly pointed, triple-nerved below the middle, and 
*ftfa pinnate ribs at the base. Panicles terminal, long, 
pendulous, with wliorled branches. Bracts very large, 
bright rose-colour, in whorls of 4, many-nerved, deciduous. 
Flowers decandrous. 
MEDINILLA MAGNIFICA* 
(Sect. 
'oplacunt 
ramis compressis tetrapteris ad nodos setosis, foliis oppo- 
sitis coriaceis glabris sessilibus obovato-oblongis cordatis 
subamplexicaulibus cuspidatis infra medium triplinerviis 
pone basin pinna to- cos tatis, paniculis terminalibus elon- 
gatis pendulis, ramis verticillatis, bracteis maximis colora- 
tis quaternatis multinerviis deciduis, floribus decandris. 
Medinilla bracteata of the Gardens, but not of Blum*. 
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^ genus iviemniii, loimdcd originally by m. uauaicnauu, ayuua oiuuu±±w — « — - ~ - 
has become known in Gardens by the introduction of the Showy and the Bed-leaved species 
{M. speciosa and erythrophylla) ; the former, a plant of striking beauty ; the latter, much less remarkable 
m appearance. These two may be taken as good examples of the genus generally, some of which are 
among the handsomest shrubs of the Malay Archipelago, while others would be passed by without 
notice. Many species have been made known by Dr. Blume, and other Dutch naturalists. Th. 
seem all to inhabit the island 
says that he has seen some of 
feet. 
Mai 
require a damp forest climate 
ume 
limbing up the trun 
;s Ol Li ceo iu ^"^ **~* — 
™ **v, u.viuo tuut uiey nave a mucuagmous uar*, wmuu, stripped 01 p ^ ^ l J * 
Mays for poultices, in dislocations and tumours, and that the subacid leaves are, m Celebes, boiled 
with fish. 
mucilagh i 
The 
lar 
Mt 
im 
am 
Horticultural 
called 
mlla bracteata, a name to which it 'has not the slightest claim j the plant once so called by 
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