778 Lix. MELASTOMACE.E. [Campimia. 



11. CAMPIMIA, Ridl. 



Shrub. Stem hollow. Leaves opposite, equal, ovate. Inflores- 

 cences axillary and terminal, scorpioid. Flowers small, articulate. 

 Cal3x-tube campanulate, hardly lobed. Petals 4. Stamens 8, 

 equal; anthers oblong prolonged below with a linear process at 

 the back. Capsule campanulate. Species 2, i Malaj'an, i Borneo. 



C. Wrayi Ridl. Joiirn. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 57, p. 40. AUo- 

 morphia Wrayi King, I.e. 11. 



Shrub 2 to 4 ft. tall. Leaves glabrous, acuminate, base shortly 

 cuneate, thin, nerves 7, margin ciliate ; 7 in. long, 3-5 to 5 in. long ; 

 petioles 2-5 in. long, hairy along upper edge. Panicles 1-5 to 4 in. 

 long, few and short-branched. Flowers small, secund. Petals 

 ovate. Stamens similar ; anthers short, oblong, process large, 

 spathulate. Capsule cup-shaped, -i in. long, narrowed to thick 

 pedicel, smooth. Hab. Mountain forests, local. Perak, Thaiping 

 Hills at 1000 to 2000 ft. altitude (Wray, Ridley). 



12. SONERILA, Roxb. 



Low herbs, more rarely shrubby. Leaves membranous or 

 fleshy, opposite, similar in shape and size, or unequal in size, i 

 much smaller and different in shape, usually slightly oblique, 

 3- to 7-nerved from base. Flowers pink or white in scorpioid simple 

 or false-umbelled cymes. , Calyx sub-cyhndric or turbinate, 3- 

 toothed. Petals 3, ovate or oblong acute. Stamens 3 (in one 

 species 6) ; anthers linear-oblong, blunt or lanceolate acuminate, 

 base lobed dehiscing with apical pores. Style filiform ; ovary 

 3-celled. Fruit trigonous, turbinate, smooth or muricate, dehiscing 

 at the top. Seeds minute. Species over 100, tropical Asiatic. 

 (Stapf, in Joiirn. As. Soc. Benq. Ixix. (2), 18.) 



A. Eu-Sonerila- Stamens 3 ; leaves similar in each pair. 

 i. Erects. Ascending wiry herbs, branched. 

 Calyx and fruit narrow, cylindric. 



Leaves Hnear, spathulate . . . (i) S. linearis 



Leaves lanceolate . . . . . (2) S. erecta 



Leaves oblong, toothed, very diffuse plant. (3) S. calaminthifolia 

 Leaves ovate, fleshy, -7 to -g in. across . (4) S. tenera 

 Erect wiry little-branched herbs with tur- 

 binate fruit. 

 Leaves ovate, toothed, sparsely hairy ; 



flowers small . . . . (5) S. tenuifolia 



Leaves ovate, toothed, densely hairj^ ; 



flowers large . . . . (6) S. hirsuta 



Slender prostrate plant with minute 



flowers . . . . . (7) S. prostrata 



ii. VALIDUL.E. Branched shrubby hairy plants ; 

 Leaves similar but unequal ; fruit turbinate. 

 Capsule smooth ; flowers small, white in 

 cymes of 3 or 4. 

 Leaves lanceolate, narrow -4 to "5 in. 



wide . . . (8) S. patula 



