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LIX. MELASTOMACE^. 



[Sonerila. 



Leaves quite glabrous, base unequally lobed . 

 Leaves glabrous above, nerves beneath 

 hairy. 

 Fruit muricate . . . . . 



Fruit smooth, few-flowered 

 Fruit smooth ; flowers many ; petiole 

 winged . . . . . 



Leaves hairy on both sides, oblong, sparsely 

 hairy above. 

 Tall, with dense setose axillary cymes 



flowers small 

 Dwarf ; cymes terminal. 



Petioles long .... 

 Petioles short ..... 

 Leaves ovate oblique, sparsely hairy above 

 dwarf plants. 

 Stem short ; cymes long peduncled . 

 Stem long. 



Cymes terminal, sessile 

 Cymes sessile or nearly axillary 

 Leaves velvety, hairy above. 

 Stem elongate ; leaves ovate 

 Dwarf ; leaves oblong acuminate 



(34) S. barbata 



(35) S. nidularia 



(36) S, calycula 



(37) S. Gimlettei 



(38) S. setosa 



(39) S. costulata 



(40) S. microcarpa 



(41) S. begonieefolia 



(42) S. macrophylla 



(43) S. brachyantha 



(44) S. elatostemoides 



(45) S. bicolor 



(i) S. linearis Hook fil.; Triana, Trans. Linn. Sac. xxviii. 76; 

 Clarke, in Hook fil. F.B.I, ii. 536. 



Slender wiry glabrous herb, 6 to 14 in. tall. Leaves linear, 

 spathulate, sessile, minutel}/ toothed or entire, i in. long, -05 to 

 •I in. wide. Racemes terminal, few- flowered. Calyx-tube 

 cylindric, campanulate -2 in. long. Petals -25 in. long, -i in. wide, 

 mauve pink ; anthers orange, long acuminate, shorter than petals. 

 Fruit cylindric oblong smooth, narrow at base, -3 in. long. Hah. 

 Kedah Peak, Gunong Jerai (Lobb; at 3000 ft. altitude, Robinson). 



(2) S. erecta Jack, Mai. Misc. i. 7 ; Staff and King, I.e. 23. 

 Wiry herb, usually widely branched, upper parts hairy, 3 to 



18 in. tall. Leaves similar, ovate or lanceolate, hairy, -4 to i-2 in. 

 long, -2 to '4 in. wide, faintly 3-nerved; petioles o to -3 in. long. 

 Cymes 2- to 9-fiowered, glabrous, elongating peduncles -4 to 2 in. 

 long slender; pedicels -04 in. long. Calyx sub-cylindric, -15 to 

 •2 in. long; teeth short. Petals elliptic cuspidate, pink, -15 in. 

 long. Anthers ovate lanceolate. Capsule sub-cylindric, -3 to 

 •45 in. long, -06 to -oS in. wide. Hah. On rocks and stony paths 

 or mossy banks on mountains. Local, but abundant where it 

 occurs, variable in size, Perak, Thaiping Hills (all collectors), 

 Penang Hill (all collectors). Distrih. Mountains. 



The varieties flexuosa and discolor Stapf, are merely large fully grown 

 forms, not worth keeping up. S. hyssopifolia Stapf, I.e., from Gunong 

 Hijau, the top of the Thaiping Hills, appears to be a state with rather larger 

 fruits, much like the form discolor, probably a wet-wood form. 



(3) S. calaminthifolia Stapf and King, I.e. 23. 



Wiry branched ascending herb up to 12 in. tall, hairy. Stem 

 4- angled above, crimson. Leaves equal, oblong or elliptic toothed, 



