Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 5 



adpressed liairs, the lower glabrous, glandular-punctate ; length 2-5 

 to 5 in., breadth '6 to 1*8 in. ; petiole '25 to -5 in. long. Flowers solitary 

 or two or three together, bright purple, 2 to 3 in. in diam., the bracts 

 few, short, acuminate ; pedicels under '5 in. Calyx-tuhe densely covered 

 •with long, flexuose, shining, coloured, bristly hairs ; '25 to -5 in. long, 

 the teeth rather shorter than the tube, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 glabrous inside, deciduous. Fruit '75 in. in diam., truncate at the apex, 

 ovoid to ovoid- globular, '5 in. in diam. Jack in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIV, 

 (1822) 6 ; DC. Prodr. Ill, 146 ; Naud., Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XIII, 282 ; 

 Bl. Mus. Bot. I, 65 ; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 345. M. sanguineum, 

 Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 2241 ; DO. Prodr. Ill, 145 ; Don in Mem. Wern. 

 Soc. IV, 289; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. T, 504; Naud. I.e. 281 ; Triana 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. 60 ; C. B. Clarke ia Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. II, 524 ; 

 Hemsl. in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII, 300. M. malahathrica, Sims in Bot. 

 Mag. (not of Linn.) 529. M. Gaiidichaudianum^ Naud. I.e. 278. 

 M. r)iacrocarpum, Naud. I.e. 281 (not of Don). M. porphyreum^ Bipp. et 

 Bl. in Flora 1831, 11,487. M. pedicellatum, Naud. I.e. 280 ; Cogn. in 

 DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 346. 



Penang ; Wallich 4042 ! King, Curtis 683. Malacca ; Griffith 

 (K.D.) 2245/1 ! Maingay 773, 774 ! Ridley 3228. Pahang ; Ridley 2667. 

 Kedah ; Ridley 5211. Perak ; Scortechini 2123 ! King's Collector 1540, 

 1853, 8754. Distrib. Burma, China, Hongkong, Tonkin. 



Var. mollis, Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 524. Young branches 

 very hispid throughout their whole length; leaves v^-ith numerous sub- 

 adpressed and spreading stiff hairs on both surfaces, especially on the 

 nerves. Vidal Syn. PI. Filip. t. 51 ; fig. D. M. molle, Wall. Cat. 4046 ; 

 Triana in Linn. Trans. XXVIII, 60; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. 

 VII, 346. M. crinitum, Naud. I.e. 524. M. maldbathricum Blanco, Fl. 

 Filip. Ed. Ill, tab. 152 (not of Linn.). 



Singapore ; WalHch, Distrib. Luzon ; Cuming 853. 



2. Melastoma imbricatum, Wall. Cat. 4047, A spreading shrub, 

 5 to 15 feet high ; young branches (especially at the nodes and tips), 

 petioles, pedicels and calyx covered with adpressed, lanceolate acuminate, 

 serrulate scales. Leaves elliptic-oblong to ovate-oblong, rather abruptly 

 narrowed at the base, the apex acute or acuminate ; main nerves 5 

 (the two lateral slender) ; both surfaces strigose, the main nerves on 

 the lower with adpressed scales ; length 3*5 to 85 in., breadth 1-5 

 to 4'5 in., petiole -35 to 135 in. Cymes solitary, terminal, condensed, 

 1*5 to 2 in. in diam., enclosed in bud by deciduous, lanceolate bracts 

 and bracteoles. Flowers 7 to 15, 125 in. in diam.; the pedicels '15 in. 

 long. Calyx-tuhe urceolate, the teeth shorter than the tube, lanceolate- 

 acuminate, deciduous. Petals oblong. Anthers short. Fruit ovoid- 

 globose or sub-globose, truncate and shortly toothed at the mouth, 



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