790 Lix. MELASTOMACE^. [SonetUa, 



Cymes dense, many-flowered axillary; peduncles -2 in. long. 

 Calyx -I in. long, bristly cylindric-campanulate, red. Petals small, 

 linear-oblong acute, white, bristly on back. Stamens 3 ; anthers 

 oblong, blunt. Capsule campanulate muricate bristly narrowed 

 to a short thick peduncle -2 in. long. Hah. Damp muddy spots 

 at 4000 ft. altitude. Pahang, Gunong Tahan, in the Gully below 

 the Plateau (Ridley). 



(39) S. costulata Stapf, I.e. 39. 



Dwarf herb. Stem i to 2 in. tall, hairy. Leaves large ones 

 obliquely obovate-oblong sub-acute, base unequally cordate, dark 

 green often red beneath, above sparsely bristly, margins ciliate 

 beneath, hairy on the nerves ; nerves 7, prominent beneath, 3 to 6 

 in. long, 1-3 to 2-5 in. wide; petioles hairj^ -3 to 5 in. long; small 

 leaves ovate cordate or reniform. Cymes terminal and in upper axils 

 solitary or 2 on a short common peduncle ebracteate. Fruit semi- 

 globose muricate, -15 to -18 in. wide. Hah. Local in lowland forests. 

 Johor, woods at the foot of Gunong Pantai (Kunstler, Ridley). 



This is really near S. begonicBfolia, but the leaves are stiffer, nerves more 

 prominent and the cyme-peduncle very short. 



(40) S. microcarpa Stapf, I.e. 38. 



Habit of 5. hraehyantha, but hardly 6 in. tall. Stem hairy. 

 Leaves dissimilar, large ones oblong to lanceolate acuminate, base 

 unequally cordate, above sparsely hairy, dark, often with 4 or more 

 rows of small white spots, beneath soft hairy, 2-5 to 4 in. long, i to 

 1-5 in. wide ; petioles -15 to -4 in. long ; small leaves reniform sessile, 

 •2 in. long. Cymes axillary terminal, sub-sessile or peduncled up 

 to '5 in. long. Calyx campanulate short-toothed, hairy; teeth 

 triangular. Petals oblong acute -25 in. long, pink. Anthers oblong 

 blunt. Capsule pink turbinate, minutely mviricate -ii in. long. 

 Hah. Perak; upper, at 300 ft. altitude (Wray). 



(41) S. begoniaefolia Bl. Flora 1831, p. 490; Stapf, I.e. 41. 

 S. paradoxa Naud, Ami. Sc. Nat. Ser. iii. xv. 321. S. moluccana 

 Jaek, Mai. Mise. i. 8 {not of Roxburgh). 



An ascending herb 6 in. tall, seldom branched, softly hairy all 

 over or the leaves glabrous above. Leaves very dissimilar, large ones 

 obHquely oblong acuminate, unequally cordate, 3 to 6 in. long, i-2 to 

 2-5 in. wide; nerves 6 to 8 ; petioles -4 to 2 in. long; small leaves 

 round cordate, petioled, -4 in. long. Cymes terminal axillary i to 4, 

 dense; peduncles -5 to 2 in. long. Calyx cylindric-campanulate, 

 •15 in. long, hairy. Petals oblong acute, white or pink. Stamens 3, 

 oblong. Capsule turbinate, -15 in. long, muricate, hairy. Hah. 

 Lowland and low hill woods, usually sporadic, variable in hairiness, 

 Singapore, Bukit Timah ; Chanchu Rang. Johor, Gunong Pantai. 

 Pahang, Tahan River; Gunong Tahan (Robinson), Negri Sembilan 

 Seremban (Napier) ; Bukit Tumiang (Cantley). Selangor, Bukit 

 Hitam. Perak, Keledang ; Bujong Malacca. Dindings, Lumut, 



