788 Lix. MELASTOMACE^. [SonerUa. 



Fruit campanulate, muricate, -15 in. long. Hah. Mountain forests 

 at 4000 ft. altitude. Selangor, Semangkok. Perak, Gunong Batu 

 Putih (Wray, Kunstler). 



var. longipetiolata Ridl. in Journ. F.M.S. Mus. iv. 18. 



Leaves ovate with rounded oblique base; petioles 2-5 in. long, 

 sometimes covered with long crimson hair. Peduncles longer, 

 slender hairy or glabrous. Hab. Pahang, Telom. Kedah, Gunong 

 Bintang (Kloss). This form has even longer peduncles, 4 in. long 

 and quite glabrous and slender. 



(31) S. caesia Siapf, I.e. 36. 



Ascending herb. Stem 3 in. long, densely hairy as are petioles ; 

 nerves beneath and inflorescence. Leaves dissimilar, large ones 

 oblique elliptic blunt, base unequally cordate, fleshy blue green 

 above; nerves 6 to 7 from near base, red beneath, 3 to 5 in. long, 

 175 to 275 in. wide; petioles i to 3-5 in. long. Small leaves 

 minute ovate cordate. Cymes axillary, terminal 2 to 3 in umbel; 

 peduncle 2-5 in. long. Flowers few or many, pink or white. Bracts 

 oblong, blunt. Calyx obconic, scabrid, crimson, -12 in. long ; teeth 

 triangular acute. Petals oblong, cuspidate, -22 in. long. Capsule 

 campanulate, tubercled. Hab. Perak, Gunong Batu Putih (Wray) ; 

 Temengoh (Ridley). 



(32) S. bracteata Stapf, I.e. 35. 



Erect hairy, unbranched herb, 6 to 18 in. tall, densely hirsute. 

 Leaves very unhke, large ones oblanceolate-acuminate, base cordate 

 asymmetric, sub-glabrous above, hairy beneath on the nerves, 

 3 to 7 in. long, i to 7 in. long, i to 17 in. wide, 5-nerved; petioles 

 •2 to '4 in. long. Small leaves reniform, minute. Cymes axillary 

 and terminal; peduncle 2 in. long, hairy. Flowers numerous. 

 Bracts lanceolate, hairy, -i in. long. Calyx short, campanulate, 

 hairy; teeth lanceolate, narrow. Petals oblong cuspidate, white. 

 Fruit turbinate, muricate. Hab. Perak, Thaiping Hills (Kunstler). 



(33) S. integrifolia Stapf, Ann. Bot. vi. 312; Journ. As. 

 Soe. Beng. Ixix. 34. 



A simple, rarely branched erect herb with creeping base rather 

 stout, appressed hairy. Leaves very unequal and unlike, the larger 

 ones oblong lanceolate inaequilateral, acuminate base narrowed 

 cordate or acute, glabrous, plain dull green or with 2 or 4 rows of 

 white spots, 3-5 in. long, i to 1-5 in. wide, 3- to 5-nerved, transverse 

 nervules ascending; petioles •! in. long. Small leaf minute ovate. 

 Cymes axillary several -5 in. long with 4 or more flowers, hairy. 

 Calyx hairy -2 in. long. Petals oblong acute, -15 in. long, pink 

 or white. Capsule campanulate muricate, sub-sessile, '2 in. long. 

 Hab. Dense hill jungle, common on the main mountain range. 

 Selangor, Ginting Peras; Dusun Tua; Batu Caves. Perak, 

 Changkat Serdang (Wray) ; Thaiping Hills. 



Stapf's var. acuminatissima, I.e., is a narrow-leaved acuminate form with 

 wavy leaf-edges. It occurs in the Thaiping Hills. 



